Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...today is Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. They also know that the impact, or more accurately, the worldwide, sunlight-blocking shroud of dust it kicked up, wiped out some 70% of the earth's plant and animal species--including the dinosaurs. But what, precisely, was the object that sealed their fate...
...Britain's court of appeals Wednesday ruled that General Augusto Pinochet has no immunity from prosecution, opening the way for London's courts to hear a Spanish extradition request. Violent demonstrations erupted in Chile following the decision. But with the immunity issue resolved, the final word on Pinochet's fate will now rest with the Labor party government. "They could release him on compassionate grounds," says TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand, "but there'll be strong pressure from within the party to proceed. This government has cloaked itself in the mantle of human rights and ethical foreign policy...
Wentzell acknowledged that action is still pending on the fate of the team for future seasons...
...field goal sealed the Crimson's fate, and as the seconds ticked away, we fans had to face the facts: It was over. We had lost. This time, for the first time in four years, it would be the Yalies who would storm the field. This time, we would be the ones to leave the stadium with eyes lowered and spirits shattered...
There are only a few things more annoying than having to endure huge lines caused by outsiders, in your own dining hall. One of those things happens to be getting harassed by a clan of jingoistic (and I hope unrepresentative) Adams House residents on a day when, as fate would have it, the dining hall was practically empty...