Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such arguments fail to impress the 700,000 Cuban exiles in South Florida, who over the past few weeks have worked themselves into a greater frenzy than usual over Castro's fate. Miami's Spanish radio stations dedicate hours of airtime to speculation that Castro's regime will collapse. Some emigres are even preparing to sell their property and return to their homeland. To Miami Herald columnist Sergio Lopez-Miro, such actions constitute "wishful thinking cum madness." Or call it hope -- the same hope that people like the Fidelista in Santiago have been searching for in the dark. Uva Clavijo...
When the Harvard men's squash team lost to Yale, 5-4, for the second time within four days, both called it an act of fate...
...American managers raised in the GM system. Both manufacturers suffered large financial losses earlier in the decade and then underwent massive reorganizations. The fork in the road goes back to those restructurings in the mid-1980s, which had an impact that can be seen clearly in the fate of two high-volume products: GM Europe's VectraCavalier and the domestic company's Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme. The Olds, which posted sales of 334,000 in 1984, plummeted to 99,898 by last year...
...last month, the news was dominated by a battle between President Bush and Congress over the fate of Chinese students whose visas were expiring...
...Russian republics and perestroika's failure to fill empty stores with food and clothing are sending Gorbachev's popularity plummeting among ordinary citizens. How Mikhail Gorbachev handles the occupation of Azerbaijan -- and how the Azerbaijanis react -- will affect not only the future of his policies but the fate of the policymaker himself...