Word: fates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...restaurant's loyal patrons have anything to say about it, the Square's sole source of quality German fare will not meet a similar fate...
...catering manager employed in Kuwait, says he was forced into Iraq by soldiers during a business trip near the border. Michael Wainwright, 41, claims he was admitted to Kurdistan by Iraqi guards while visiting Turkey. Both are now serving long terms for illegal entry, and Iraq has tied their fate to a payoff demanded of the British government growing out of the Gulf...
Fraiberg made it the semifinals before losing to Demer Holleran in three straight games. Earlier, in an unlikely twist of fate, Fraiberg faced and eliminated Eynon in the second round. Doyle said it was surprising and somewhat disappointing that the Crimson teammates had to meet so early in the tournament. Desai, the final Harvard competitor in the tourney, also lost to Crimson-wrecker Holleran, 3-0. As the men and women's teams approach critical matches against Yale and the national championships within the next two weeks, the individual tourney served as a successful tune-up for more important things...
...fate of Lop, a captured Viet Cong captain, was a starkly dramatic moment in a nationwide battle that lasted 25 days and was fought in more than 100 cities, towns and military bases. Perhaps 37,000 South Vietnamese guerrillas and North Vietnamese soldiers died during Tet and subsequent cleanup operations. The losses of the American and Saigon-regime forces were about a tenth of that. Tet was a crushing defeat that practically annihilated the political and military capabilities of the Viet Cong. Yet the offensive marked the beginning of the end of U.S. involvement -- a disengagement freighted with national guilt...
KEVIN PHILLIPS HAS BUILT A REPUTAtion as the dependable fortune-teller of American politics. BOILING POINT: REPUBLICANS, DEMOCRATS, AND THE DECLINE OF MIDDLE-CLASS PROSPERITY (Random House; $23) is not as boldly predictive as his earlier books: he compares this nation's fate to that of 17th century Holland and late 19th century England -- two economic powerhouses that declined under the weight of indebtedness at home and overexpansion abroad -- only to suggest later that the parallels may not hold up. But Phillips' statistics and his pictures of suburbia provide a rich backdrop to last November's election -- an instant context...