Word: fates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Federated Department Stores, surrender seemed an imminent and lamentable - fate. After a long, five-week siege, the largest U.S. department-store owner had all but given up hope of fending off a takeover raid from the north by Canadian Developer Robert Campeau, who had offered $6.1 billion, or $68 a share, for the Cincinnati-based retailer. But as happens routinely in romances and rarely in corporate struggles, the whitest knight conceivable appeared last week. The venerable R.H. Macy & Co., an all-American name that evokes images of Thanksgiving Day parades and the classic movie Miracle on 34th Street, made...
...paper, the Knights should fall short of the Crimson by a goal or two, a fate Clarkson should be conditioned to. This year, the Knights have played in 19 one-goal games...
Democrat Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.), who ran a poor fourth among Democrats on Tuesday, said Michigan could decide his fate...
...with Cleary. After a victory, or even after a loss, Cleary is usually jovial. This year, Harvard dropped both of its Beanpot games. Cleary has become so accustomed to such a fate--Harvard has failed to win a first-round 'Pot game since 1981--that he turns his post-game press conference into a Greek tragicomedy, in which he plays Sisyphus...
...implications of this situation are too fully revealed in the fate of Edward Byrne. The circumstances of his death fit too well into the scenario depicted by the new report on civil disorders. South Jamaica, Queens-inner city. Poverty, crack-dealing, violent crime, a young man dead. And society is torn a more...