Word: fates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stoppard's work is both witty and wise, drawing its humor from the device of looking at the events around Hamlet through the eyes of the addled house guests, and its humanity from the universality of a situation in which men cannot understand the orders handed them by fate...
...ideas, even if they came from the West. For added effect, he also hinted that he would let the country's economic reformers resume their experiments with profits and price incentives to get the stalled economy moving again. It was a major turnabout for Novotný, but his fate had already been determined...
...course unwilling to reveal all that I learned from the gypsies and my other sources, but there is more about the nature of palmistry that may prove interesting. The lines in the palm, particularly the four main ones (life, fate, head, and heart) are actually formed before birth. The fetus awaits birth with closed hands, and the act of making a fist creates creases or lines in the hand. I have looked at subjects as young as six weeks of age and found their fortunes quite easy to read, although some squinting is required. The lines deepen and change somewhat...
...Administrative Board decides the "fate" of students accused of violating University regulations (academic and non-academic). The Board's procedure is unconstitutional because students are not permitted to appear before the Board and because they are not allowed to cross-examine witnesses. However, because the Board is so lenient, many people question whether it should be changed...
...decision of the U.S. to main tain a presence in this region has been of crucial importance. Every political leader within the area now recognizes that without that presence, the political fate of the region as a whole would have been drastically different. The U.S. has bought time for some 200 million people to develop, without their ceaselessly being confronted with combined external-internal Communist threats...