Word: fates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country. We believe in the dignity of each man, woman and child." Then he quoted from the Declaration of Independence. Reagan, who had earlier visited the excavation site of the vast terra cotta army protecting the tomb of the Emperor Qin, warned that the two nations must "escape the fate of the buried armies of Xian-the buried warriors who stood for centuries frozen in time, frozen in unknowing enmity." The Fudan students, most of whom understood English, interrupted his speech nine times with applause. At the end, Reagan, his actor's head bobbing, clapped back. He told...
...Freudian, was responsible for what happened to him. The oracle said he would sleep with his mother and kill his father, so he did what any sensible person would do. He left town. Then he pushed that limit, took those risks, to become king. And Fate tripped him up. Just like Newman and Redford, or those test pilots who crash in flames early on in The Right Staff. But not just like Macbeth, the ultimate Elizabethan screw-up. Anybody who's taken a high school Shakespeare class knows that Macbeth brought on his own tragedy. True, Lady Macbeth...
Congress is likely to wait until the Salvadoran ballots are counted before deciding on the fate of $62 million worth of proposed U.S. military aid for El Salvador, and of $21 million intended for the contras. Indeed, some of the urgency of those decisions dissipated last month when the Administration released $32 million in discretionary credit to the Salvadoran military for ammunition and spare parts. The credit expires in 120 days. One of the few certainties about U.S. policy in Central America is that the interval between crises is never long. -By George Russell. Reported by Ricardo Chavira with...
...favor the burning at sea of deadly substances like PCBs, announced a preliminary decision to delay the issuance of operating permits for incinerator ships. The halt meant that three specially designed vessels were temporarily left high and dry. The move did not calm environmentalists, who are concerned about the fate of the oceans and the coastlines. Says EPA Director of Water Regulations and Standards Steven Schatzow: "The definition of 'backyard' has become much larger...
Most rockers, male or female, play a coy game of footsie under the table with fate. Hynde stomps right on its toes. When she gets kicked back, she writes a song that is part taunt, part testament and part a perpetual reappraisal of the price paid for defiance. This keen balancing act between distance and immediacy is probably what saved Hynde when the going got tough a few years back...