Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Whitewater mess was boring? Forget the excitement of the Monica Lewinsky scandal -- Susan McDougal's Whitewater contempt trial went on a wild roller coaster ride on Friday when, of all things, a juror brought an Arkansas criminal law book into the room where the jury was deliberating McDougal's fate. A court clerk snatched it before the jury could consult the book. The judge abruptly halted the proceedings to investigate the possibility of jury tampering, but deciding that no harm had been done he later ordered the deliberations to resume on Monday. "The strange incident provided yet another indication that...
...continue to be conducted in complete secrecy without any kind of progress report or indication of an end date. There is no shortage of interest and debate over this issue--concerned alumnae have been flooding the letters section of the Radcliffe Quarterly with proposals and counter-proposals for the fate of the institution, and many of them turned out to see President Wilson when she went on her national tour...
...Festival=Jeopardy=Just tell everyone you missed it by one question,=Tough day?=They called me,=they=aJeopardy called me. They want me to fly out later this month, and I don t know if I want to do it and....=Jeopardy=Jeopardy=crashed and burned.<= Maybe it was fate getting back at him for having the gall to look down at the screen displaying his winnings during the opening segment. Or perhaps it was the several on-camera interactions that made Alex Trebek look like the dope he is. In any event, Dave was sent packing, albeit...
...city still haunted by the outcome of Game Six of the 1986 World Series, Rose audaciously invoked the name of Bill Buckner. I had to regard his subsequent fate--getting Tombstoned by Kane, a possible premonition of Sunday's events--as sweet comeuppance for his cheekiness. Comeuppance, too, for his barreling into a petrified Denny Doyle to break up a potential double play in Game Seven of the 1975 Sox-Reds World Series epic...
...cruel twist of fate therefore, that one of the most promising drugs ever found to treat diabetics could turn out to be just another way to die. Yet that's the depressing possibility the Food and Drug Administration was forced to confront last week. At least 35 people have died from liver damage after taking Rezulin, a medication the agency approved two years ago. In an unusual meeting last week, a panel of independent experts wrestled with the question of whether the agency should reverse itself and pull the drug from the market...