Word: fates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After 162 games, the baseball playoffs begin today. By another quirk of fate, it just so happens that in this decade, all four of this year's playoff teams have been at the threshold of a world championship but have been unable to cross it. All four have smelled the roses, but none of them got to keep them, much less the trophy. Or the rings. And their fans could smell the roses...
...Zaire is a friend. It is like a faithful woman," said Vunduawe te Pamako, Zaire's former deputy prime minister in 1984. Since 1984. Vunduawe's fate has been unclear--he is either in exile or prison. So much for loyalty to the head of state...
...Union with Rick Smolan, dispatched 90 photographers throughout China one day last spring. Months of planning went into the project, which was sponsored by Eastman Kodak, Nikon, Northwest Airlines, BankAmerica, Holiday Inn and Federal Express. Says TIME picture editor Michele Stephenson, who helped supervise the project in Beijing: "As fate would have it, A Day in the Life of China captured a portrait of this sprawling nation hours before the beginning of the student revolt...
...fate of Flight 772 raised troubling questions. What or who was responsible for the disaster? French soldiers who arrived at the crash site the day after the accident found wreckage and bodies strewn over miles of empty sand, suggesting that the aircraft had broken up at high altitude. U.S. ^ air-safety experts flown in to investigate agreed that the fragmented evidence suggested a "Lockerbie-type explosion," a reference to the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland last Dec. 21, killing all 259 aboard. On Saturday investigators said data from flight recorders confirmed that a midair explosion...
...Adkins says, students are "planning to escalate our activities" to communicate to Clark the extent of their concern for the fate of public interest...