Word: fates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impasse on the Judiciary Committee would only heighten the drama of the full Senate vote that will ultimately determine Bork's fate. What worries Bork backers and detractors alike is that the full complement of 100 Senators may be as torn over the nominee as the Judiciary Committee has been. The Senate, says White House Counsel A.B. Culvahouse, is "up for grabs, almost equally divided." The White House is already stepping up its lobbying effort to get Bork confirmed. Chief of Staff Howard Baker will start meeting with Senators this week. The President, too, is getting more involved: last week...
...actual winds were detrimental, the winds of fate seemed to favor the Huskies with three minutes left. Quarterback Jim O'Leary dusted off his throwing arm and completed seven of eight passes--including an eight-yard toss to Brooks Estadt in the end zone--in an 80-yard, 50-second touchdown drive which closed the gap to three points...
...harder, of course, to predict the fate of a nation than it is to predict the trajectory of a satellite. But Cory Aquino and her People Power movement, like Skylab, are losing the momentum needed to keep aloft. Isolated from the left and under increasing threat from the nation's military, Cory Aquino may well find herself living next door to Ferdinand Marcos before Christmas...
...American government wants to try to solve the problem by throwing money at it, certainly no one in the Philippines is going to try to stop it. But ultimately the fate of the Philippines is going to have to be decided by Filipinos--working with the crumbled remains of what was, Just a few months ago, the most promising democracy in Southeast Asia...
...Arroyo's congressional outbursts sealed his fate, he provided a dramatic encore in private Malacanang sessions. Palace insiders report that the President witnessed a series of intense backroom shouting matches between Arroyo and Trade and Industry Secretary Jose Concepcion, whose twin brother Raul was among the businessmen the Executive Secretary had accused of treason. As other Cabinet members joined in the melee, a furious Aquino said, "Don't you people have anything else to do except fight and quarrel with each other?" To the officials present she said, "I want all your resignations right now." She then called the emergency...