Word: fates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carrabino-and most athletes-it doesn't matter how it works; only that it does work. They call it superstition, they call it technique, or they call it fate. But whatever the ritual, athletes need it to perform...
...replacement for Liberals Brennan or Marshall or sometime Liberals Blackmun or John Paul Stevens, seemingly in his prime at 64. During the 1984 campaign, both sides noted that the winner probably would join a short list of very fortunate Presidents--Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, Taft and Franklin Roosevelt--whom fate allowed to mold the court in their own images. For that reason, says Tribe, normally a critic of the Burger era, "I'm for mandatory life-support systems for the current court." But no such emergency intervention is necessary for the moment. The present high bench, with its fragile coalitions...
...industry and spells trouble for the 70-sq.-mi. Caribbean island. The refinery has provided Aruba with more than half its annual income for better than two generations. Writes the Curacao-based Antillen Review: "The chilling truth, that a total economic collapse might well be the country's fate within two years, has at last dawned upon a wide spectrum of the nation's decision makers...
...attempt to solve problems like the one Morgenthau faced with Goetz's victims. Britain abandoned the grand jury system in 1933 in favor of hearings before a magistrate. Yet even though grand juries are under & heavy fire in some states, Morgenthau points out: "I would rather have my fate in the hands of 23 representative citizens of the county than in the hands of a politically appointed judge...
...sent him to Roanoke, Va. Not even someplace nice, like Antarctica, but Roanoke--home of the largest block of coal cost of Mississippi. I guess I can also blame my father for not fleeing northward as soon as the Army released him, remaining in the South and scaling my fate...