Word: fates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...signs said many things--about diversity, about individual rights, about politics. And they said many contradictory things, too-- "Catholics for Choice" signs rested alongside pleas for "Not the Church, Not the State, Women Must Control their Fate...
...this simply a literary conceit, the wishful thinking of someone who has chosen to write in a world that no longer seems to require his labor? With enormous skill and formal grace, Vargas Llosa weaves this question through the mystery surrounding the fate of Saul Zuratas, the former comrade who may have gone backward in time, toward prehistory, to achieve an authority and integrity lost to contemporary writers. Unfortunately, the narrator cannot imagine how Saul could have adapted to such a role: "The rest of the story, however, confronts me only with darkness, and the harder...
Michigan decided the fate of two competingplans to raise the state sales tax for education,one calling for a half-penny increase and theother for a two-cent hike...
...fate of the remaining six incumbents will be decided in the election booths today...
...Nixon was a perfect model for caricature. Foes saw him as a rootless mutant, sui generis, combining McCarthy's feral atavism with Machiavelli's cunning intellect. Friends perceived him as a courageous champion of basic American values. They remain united in the belief that he suffered a martyr's fate at the hands of the liberal aristocracy whose reign he challenged. For years, Watergate gave the bashers the better of the argument...