Word: fates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They showed a lot of courage," Coach Bill Cleary said after his squad had failed in its first attempt to provide him with his 300th career victory. "I kind of wish we had a better fate. I guess it wasn't in the cards...
...Washington version of budget brinkmanship, the stakes range from the health of the world's largest economy and the strength of its armed forces to the fate of a college student's grant. All that and more were put at risk last week, when the capital's political gamblers -- the President and the Democratic leaders of Congress -- allowed the nation to bump up against the threat of bankruptcy...
...beneficiary of old- fashioned back-room politics, just as Irish, Italian and Jewish candidates were in the urban North decades ago. With the aid of the Robb and Baliles organization, plus his own ties to Richmond business interests, Wilder was able to raise $7.2 million, avoiding the traditional fate of ill-funded black candidates...
...Petar Mladenov, said, "This implies complex and far from foreseeable processes. But there is no alternative." In all of what used to be called the Soviet bloc, Zhivkov's departure leaves in power only Nicolae Ceausescu in Rumania and Milos Jakes in Czechoslovakia, both old-style Communist dictators. Their fate? Who knows? Only a few weeks ago, East Germany seemed one of the most stolidly Stalinist of all Moscow's allies and the one least likely to undergo swift, dramatic change...
...popular interest, leaving other equally pressing but less publicized matters unaddressed. Saving our forests is certainly a very popular issue these days. Thousands have responded to increased media attention and the pleas of pop stars like the Grateful Dead and David Byrne by hopping onto the arboreal bandwagon. The fate of the world's forests and woodlands is indeed an important issue, but what about the other less trendy "wet spots" on our hypothetical...