Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stalled supply convoy enter Srebrenica. But food and medicine will not save the town or its people from being overrun and "ethnically cleansed." Like the humanitarian efforts of the West throughout the country, Morillon's intervention provides a momentary respite but does nothing to rescue Bosnia from the fate the Serbs have decided...
...rally outside the Post on Thursday, virtuoso prole-impersonators such as Norman Mailer and actor Danny Aiello were out in force. The situation reached a new level of hysteria Friday, when the cover of the Post was taken up by "an open letter to the judge deciding our fate." The missive begged Judge Francis Conrad to rescue the paper and, indeed, the civilized world from the "madman...
...energy tax. He went no further, but another senior Administration official observes that "if they oppose us, every industry knows there is a price to pay." Several lobbyists say their clients are spooked by the prospect that unless they cooperate with the White House, they could suffer the fate of drug companies, whose stocks have been hammered in part because of criticism from the President and his wife about alleged price gouging...
...loony speculations about the end of the world. But not a decade ago, tens of millions of Americans, including many who should have known better, were in the grip of a national anxiety attack about nuclear apocalypse. Jonathan Schell's panicked anticipation of nuclear destruction, modestly titled The Fate of the Earth, was rapturously received. The Day After, a re-creation of the End, was the TV event of the year. Psychologists were dispatched to help kids deal with its anticipated psychological fallout. Hundreds of thousands took to observing "Ground Zero Week," which featured the loving re-creation of every...
When the hellish life of a battered wife drives her to murder her husband, often she has only the mercy of the justice system to determine her fate. But in Florida, Kimberly Soubielle, 27, became the first beneficiary of a novel state procedure that allows a husband killer who claims battered-woman syndrome to argue successfully for clemency before a special review panel. The Governor and the cabinet commuted her sentence to five years served and put her on 15-years probation. The release was a victory for activist Candice Slaughter, who had pressed for the reform...