Word: fates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. at San Diego State University: "We cannot acquiesce in the drift toward Armageddon. For the stake is supreme: it is the fate of humanity itself. Let me say at once that the answer to the arms race is not unilateral nuclear disarmament. The renunciation of nuclear weapons by the West would place the democratic world at the mercy of Soviet Communism. History has proven beyond all argument that mercy is not a salient characteristic of any Communist regime. Neither the arms race nor unilateral disarmament holds out hope. What we must do rather is to revive...
...unnecessary government spending programs and slowing its virulent, 116% inflation. If the world economic recovery continues, Mexico may be able to step back from the brink. Says Finance Secretary Jesús Silva Herzog: "The pace of the U.S. recovery, interest rates and the oil market will decide our fate. All we need now is a little luck...
...among different types of bank accounts. Some members feared that Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker would look at the increase in some money-supply figures and decide to tighten credit again. Said Heller: "If Volcker forgets that it is not just our recovery that is at issue, but the fate of the debt-ridden countries and the European recovery, then we are in trouble...
...size of this audience would not have impressed Fred Silverman, but enough people tuned in for their weekly fix of what Paul Claudel called "l' allure du vrai gentleman Anglais" to make a star of Clark. Thus he became the Leonard Bernstein of the visual arts, a fate that enormously surprised him: once, after running the gauntlet of hysterical fans at a ceremony in his honor at the National Gallery in Washington, he was so overcome with embarrassment that he had to lock himself in a bathroom and weep. He could not see why they...
...senior in high school, Rogers applied and was admitted to Yale, but decided to take a postgraduate year at Excter and then chose Harvard Fate, it would seem had ordained...