Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...understood how the system worked--that unproven graduate students, possessed of varying degrees of familiarity with the course matter and instructional ability, would always decide my academic fate. They were the ones who would re-teach the lecture we had heard the professor read earlier that week. They were the ones who would grade my tests and my papers. In fact, unless I had roommates proofread my papers, teaching fellows would be the only ones to read my papers...
...chancellorship and won. By then, his view of East and West had been tempered by his belief that President John F. Kennedy had abandoned West Berlin in 1961 when East Germany erected the Wall. "Kennedy has cooked our goose!" an angry Brandt told friends. He decided that the fate of the two Germanys would be decided by Germans and that the key lay in improving relations with the East, especially with the U.S.S.R...
...only have been possible for Crystal to portray this wrinkled, self- absorbed baby with a cigar once he was safely beyond such a fate himself. At 44, he is now at the top not only professionally -- considered in the same breath with Steve Martin and Robin Williams -- but personally as well, uncommonly secure in a business where ego tremors routinely register 9.8 on the Richter scale. He has lived in the same house in Pacific Palisades, Calif., for 12 years, been married to the same woman for 22. He has scarcely missed a volleyball game of either daughter: Jennifer...
...dynamics of the 21st century produce a gloomy outlook for the poorest countries, the most bothersome question facing much of the world is about the fate of the U.S. There is no doubt, of course, that America will be a major player on the world scene. Its military power, its 20% share of the world's gross national product and its mastery of such cutting-edge fields as biotechnology, microprocessors and information technologies guarantee that. It will bestride the North American Free Trade Agreement like a colossus...
...Ross stood before this country early this summer, preaching that we must improve the moral and ethical base of our society by teaching the proper values to the younger generation. Yet this guy has treated the presidential election and the fate of the nation like a game. He deserted oodles of volunteers to whom he had made a solemn promise. And, after committing to pay his campaign workers through the November election after he dropped out, he soon reneged on that promise as well...