Word: fates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...challenges may prevent the death row floodgates from opening all at once this year, the consolidation of capital punishment appears nearly complete. The Justices writing last week seemed to know that. Summoning particular eloquence, Dissenter Brennan said, "It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our treatment of them sounds no echoes beyond the chambers in which they die. Such an illusion is ultimately corrosive, for the reverberations of injustice are not so easily confined." Speaking directly to the apparent ending of the larger court debate, Powell...
Behind the sedate granite facades and oak-paneled boardroom doors of Wall Street, a bitter power struggle is under way that could well decide the fate of the $2.7 trillion U.S. banking industry. The battle pits behemoth against behemoth, commercial banks against investment-banking houses, prestigious names like Citicorp, Bankers Trust and BankAmerica against equally blue-chip concerns like First Boston, Salomon Brothers and Goldman, Sachs. But fundamentally, the struggle matches traditional U.S. bank-lending practices against computer-driven techniques that are drastically changing the way that more than $6 trillion worth of nongovernment credit is channeled through...
...view, Sister Teresa offered herself as a martyr following the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1940. But it is known she had tried to transfer to a Swiss convent. After her arrest she asked the convent to send her two suitcases of clothes; that indicated ignorance of her fate, according to Sister Marie Louise, a former prioress at Echt. Agrees Pinchas Lapide, a Frankfurt Jewish scholar: "Her death was totally involuntary." Although "in her own mind Edith Stein most probably died for her faith," says Renee Grignon, an official of the French Jewish-Christian Friendship Association, "in reality...
...this by tommorrow. You've got a whole page to yourself. I'd talk to you about it, only I have to go feed my editorial assistant." As she went off shouting "Igor! Din-din!" I picked myself off the floor and looked at the book it was my fate to review. The Norton Anthology of Pretentious Literature proclaimed the dust-jacket. I read the description on the inside cover...
...want to belittle what those people had to go through who were thrown then into the terrible happenings of war. It was the fate of my generation, and we will carry it with us all our lives: that is, the knowledge of the horror of war and the will to work for more peace...