Word: fates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...animal preservationists, leopard coats and alligator shoes have long ranked among the most flagrant symbols of human indifference to the fate of wild animals. Even among the general public, consciousness has been raised high enough so that anyone sporting finery made from the skins of endangered animals runs the risk of at least verbal assault...
...compromise. Why, he asked on June 11, could not one chamber of the Congress have seats allotted according to population, while the other preserved the principle of one vote for each state? Eventually, of course, that was the proposal that would prevail, but Sherman's compromise met a predictable fate. The big states, having a majority, ignored...
...President and won 46% of the vote, is still too large a threat to the ruling party to risk restoring him to full political activity. Finally, Chun promised to order the release of nearly all the 300 demonstrators arrested during the current round of protests but indicated that the fate of some 3,000 other political prisoners could not be so easily resolved...
...Fate increasingly cast him in the role of umpire within the court, and never more than in the past few years. Of the 41 cases decided by a 5-to-4 vote in the term just concluded, Powell was in the majority no fewer than 33 times. Over the years his votes were steadily pro-business, and he tended to side with the conservatives in criminal-law cases. He upheld the right of states to impose the death penalty, but otherwise followed no identifiable ideological line. At his farewell press conference, he declined even to describe himself as a moderate...
...embraces a work ethic that naturally abhors instability, it has begun to chafe under the strict, sometimes repressive rule of South Korea's military-dominated government. Last week's convulsions did not amount to a full-scale rebellion or draw a massive government crackdown. But the disturbances recalled the fate of South Korea's first President, Syngman Rhee, who was unseated by massive student demonstrations in 1960. The virulence and ubiquity of the protests were enough to give South Korean leaders a first-rate scare. Said Hyun Hong Choo, a Democratic Justice Party member of the National Assembly...