Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...paper's fate depends on two unpredictable factors. One is whether early issues are lively and error-free; hard-core fans are notoriously unforgiving. The other is whether enough people really want all that coverage every day from all those fancy columnists and feature writers. Onlookers offer scenarios aplenty but admit that the National is hard to assess because it is unprecedented -- one might say, a whole new ball game...
...from Dec. 15 until Jan. 15, there was a backlog of Americans in Bogota who had received permission to bring their adopted children home. The approvals came just in time for some to catch Flight 52. At least two of the children are known to have survived, but the fate of the rest remained unclear at week...
Dearest evaluators, I implore you to seriously consider this applicant. Not through any fault of his own, he has failed to develop a personal relationship with a senior faculty member. His unfortunate fate is, I am afraid, all part of the Harvard experience...
This Tuesday night at Dartmouth, the Harvard men's basketball team faces the Big Green in a crucial Ivy league contest that may very well decide the fate of the entire-known universe...
...Soviet President proved himself a master of street theater, improvising historical, philosophical and legalistic arguments as he pressed his appeal to Lithuanians to step back from their threatened breach with Moscow. When his entreaties met with smiles and shouts of "Bravo, Gorbachev!" he answered with poignant appeals. "My personal fate is linked to this choice," he reminded the crowds. When he read resistance in the faces of his listeners, he fumed and lectured, employing the Socratic method to grill his audience...