Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, as it stands now, public opinion in Maine, Rhode Island and Vermont will have three times the influence over the president's fate as public opinion in New York, even though New York has six times the combined population of those states. In the most extreme case, if the only Americans who favored conviction were a slim majority of citizens in the 34 least populous states, and those states' senators voted the will of those majorities, then the President would be expelled at the behest of 16 percent of Americans, with 84 percent of Americans supporting acquittal...
...they say Radcliffe insists on negotiating on the big-picture level, while Harvard stubbornly focuses on the fine print. One high-level observer said only in the past few weeks have more specific talks zeroed in on financial and legal stumbling blocks to an agreement. Outstanding issues include the fate of Radcliffe's $200 million endowment and its prime Cambridge real estate...
This injustice is most palpable on city streets. In places like New York there are more black and Hispanic kids in prison than in college. That injustice may have played a role in the fate of Derrick Smith, a New York City youth who in October faced a sentence of 15 years to life for selling crack. At the sentence hearing a distraught Smith told the judge, "I'm only 19. This is terrible." He then hurled himself out of a courtroom window and fell 16 stories to his death. "He didn't kill anyone; he didn't rob anyone...
...forth between clinics and Aetna bureaucrats who challenged his use of out-of-plan doctors and "experimental" treatments such as the high-dose chemotherapy and cryosurgery that specialists urged. Within four months the cancer spread to his liver. He continued his maddening shuttle for two years, but his fate was sealed...
...politics of impeachment are having an effect not only on the fate of the man sitting in the Oval Office, but also on those who would like to succeed him. According to aides and friends, one aspirant, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, has all but decided that the year 2000 is the wrong time for him. Observing the anti-impeachment sentiments expressed by the public in the last election, "Gephardt sees a great chance to obtain a Democratic majority in the next Congress and become the next House Speaker," says TIME senior writer Eric Pooley. "By contrast the odds...