Word: fates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chinese history is replete with tales of imperial intrigue and sanguinary succession struggles. No one, perhaps, understands the fate that may befall a leader's policies after his death better than Deng Xiaoping, who was twice purged by Mao Tse-tung but bounced back in 1978 to begin dismantling Maoism. Not long after Deng came to power, he told a gathering of top officials that choosing his successors was "a task of century-long significance." Since then, he has taken every possible precaution to ensure that Dengism will outlast...
...says are a legacy of racism. Killing someone who mirrors oneself is a reflection of hating oneself. "Violence can be a potent drug for the oppressed person," Poussaint says. "Reacting to the futility of his life, the individual derives an ultimate sense of power when he holds the fate of another human being in his hands." Poussaint goes so far as to suggest that ultimately the victims may bring their fate upon themselves, subconsciously provoking the murder and making it a kind of willed suicide. Poussaint notes, as do many others, that the easy availability of handguns gives power...
...historical view is essential to his real subject, which turns out not to be the identity and fate of the young nobleman. A Maggot, ultimately, is the story of a new era trying to be born. As in The French Lieutenant's Woman, the future's unwitting herald is an obscure, ostracized but emotionally galvanic woman. She is Rebecca Lee, a prostitute who accompanies the nobleman on his sojourn and who, conceiving a resplendent religious vision at the moment he disappears, is transformed and joins a tiny band of Protestant zealots in Manchester...
Although Shagari permitted a multiple-party political system and won re- election in 1983, his overthrow on New Year's Eve was welcomed by Nigerians. Despite Buhari's increasingly repressive regime and his mismanagement of the economy, his fate may not have been sealed until earlier this year when he ordered the dismissal of 30,000 soldiers as a cost-cutting measure. The cashiered troops reportedly began terrorizing and looting the countryside. Babangida indicated his dissatisfaction with Buhari in a rare speech this year in which he warned, "Those who advocate less spending on defense cannot win." He also proposed...
Searches of the park and adjacent waters produced not a hint of Wiley's fate. Further, he had not bought a swimsuit. That was no surprise to some. "Mel didn't like to swim," said Medina County Police Detective James Bigam, who came to know Wiley when they worked in the Medina sheriff's office in the 1970s. He suspected the answer to the disappearance lay in Wiley's ways...