Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal guarantee only if it raises $2 billion on its own from sources specified by the legislation. From domestic banks, financial institutions and other creditors, for example, Chrysler must find $400 million in new loans that would not be covered by the Government's guarantee. Because the fate of Chrysler's suppliers and dealers is so closely tied to that of the automaker, Congress insists that they contribute $180 million by such means as buying stock or extending loans. Similarly, the states and cities that benefit economically as the sites of Chrysler plants must kick in $250 million...
...America." To hasten his fall from grace, the state-run radio, which until three weeks ago was directed by Ghotbzadeh, praised the students' criticism of him and declared: "There is no room for diplomatic games in our revolution." It was clear warning that Ghotbzadeh may face the same fate as his predecessor, Abolhassan Banisadr, who was fired as Foreign Minister after 18 days of service because he seemed too conciliatory about the hostages. For the rest of the week, the normally loquacious Ghotbzadeh made no more public statements. Said a longtime associate: "It is the first time that Ghotbzadeh...
...comparatively new import from the Near East, and mutant specimens, with irregular stripes, were prized as rarities-so prized that men would mortgage their villas and their fields. The tulips had little intrinsic value. Their worth as commodities was a function of pure, irrational desire, and their economic fate proved that nothing is more manipulable than desire. When the mania fell away, the flowers were as pretty as they had been before. It was just that now few people wanted them very much, whereas before they had been invested with a kind of fetishistic and obsessive "rarity." Bullion...
Barrie was now half a father, and fate soon gave him full title. Arthur died of cancer in 1907 and Sylvia followed him three years later, leaving the play wright as her boys' principal guardian. His care and kindness could not be faulted, but no indulgence could save the doomed family. George, the eldest, was killed in the trenches of World War I; Michael, the most brilliant, drowned at Oxford, possibly as the result of a suicide pact with another student; Peter jumped in front of a London subway train in 1960. As Birkin unfolds the darkening drama...
...Said he: "It is only this policy that can persuade Americans to push for a different regime." He claimed that the Administration was playing a cynical game with the lives of the hostages. Said he: "I don't think that the Americans are concerned very much about the fate of the hostages. They have seized this opportunity to isolate our revolution. If they achieve this objective at the expense of the hostages, they will have paid, from their viewpoint, a bargain price...