Word: fateful
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Gibson, an avid snorkeler, first became interested in the reef's fate in 1985, when she was working as a volunteer for the Belize Audubon Society. After drawing up a plan to create the marine reserve, she gradually gained the support of local fishermen, developers, business owners and government officials and then obtained the necessary funding from the World Wildlife Fund and the U.S. Agency for International Development...
When a "movement" becomes a "trend," it usually succumbs to the same fate as any popular fad--burn-out and eventual neglect. Recall Live Aid, the super-mega concert that graced everyone's TV screen five years ago. In the mid-1980s, caring about hunger suddenly became fashionable after some pop stars got together and made a few mushy records on the subject. By the summer of 1985, hunger-mania had reached epic proportions and the Live Aid concert was dubbed the event of the decade...
...time the Soviet Minister departed, it was clear that the fate of the tiny Baltic republic, which unilaterally declared its independence from Moscow, though big enough to be a stumbling block in the rush toward better relations, was still too small, for now, to be a decisive obstacle. "We have an awful lot at stake in the U.S.-Soviet relationship," Bush said after meeting with the Soviet Minister for 2 hours and 20 minutes on Friday. "An enormous amount at stake...
...dealing with AIDS is clearly sapping fashion's creative energies. People are worried that co-workers will disappear into the hospital from one day to ! the next. In smaller ateliers, such twists of fate can demoralize the staff and derail a whole collection. In an effort to survive in the business, some men are reportedly getting married to cover up the fact that they are gay. Health and life insurers, as well as banks and financiers, increasingly demand that men, and even women, be tested for AIDS as part of fashion-business arrangements. Says designer Betsey Johnson...
...Exclusion Act of 1882, which cut off the Chinese influx. Local hostility forced Asian Indians out of Washington State in 1907. During World War II, Japanese Americans were forced to liquidate their assets and relocate to detention camps, taking only the belongings they could carry by hand; a similar fate did not befall residents of German or Italian ancestry...