Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wolf said it is "too soon to project" the fate of the budget and that next year, city departments will get a 2 percent increase in funding. She also added that there will still be room before the property tax limit is reached, even if state aid decreases...
Waite was referring to his captors' pledge to free by the end of November the three remaining American hostages, among them journalist Terry Anderson. There seemed great promise that the hostage drama was coming to an end. In Lebanon, Hizballah said the fate of the remaining Western hostages was no longer linked to freedom for 300-odd Arab prisoners held by Israel's proxy militia in south Lebanon. An announcement by U.S. officials that Washington and Tehran were nearing agreement on payment of $275 million owed to Iran for undelivered military equipment dating back to 1979 sweetened the prospect...
...again begun to skim off reinforcements for the / Russian front. On the night of Oct. 23-24, under a full moon, the British opened fire on German positions with at least 900 artillery pieces, creating such powerful shock waves that some Axis soldiers were stunned to death. As fate would have it, Rommel was not on hand to rally his demoralized troops. A month earlier, he had gone home for treatment of a stomach disorder. Alarmed, Hitler ordered the still ailing Rommel back immediately. By Oct. 25, however, 90% of the Afrika Korps's tanks had been destroyed. Though commanded...
...will be far from what it was before. He will have to devote much of his time to resolving disputes with the republics rather than globe-trotting. Shevardnadze was hardly upbeat. "There is no reason for congratulations," he told the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. "The time has come when the fate is being decided not just of our country, but of peace on our planet...
...attitude of purchasers to whom the illicit trade panders is not something laws can change. When taxed with blame, art connoisseurs and dealers grow philosophical: they insist that they are rescuing pieces from an uncertain fate, that they are better equipped to maintain and protect much % artwork and that in general, cultural property ought not to recognize frontiers. Lowenthal herself admits, "A heritage is also a splendid ambassador of the country's culture to the rest of the world...