Word: fates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strange twist of fate, Harvard's 3-0 win over Dartmouth Saturday has catapulted the Crimson into a four-way tie for the Ivy League crown. Cornell's 1-0 victory over Brown Saturday allowed the Crimson to join the Ivy League...
...have drastically curbed the multimillion-dollar electoral extravaganzas of the past. Elected as a Democrat, he was a prize convert to the Republican Party when he defected last March. But Roemer may have moved too fast and too abruptly for his state. And in the end, he met the fate of most Louisiana reformers: he lasted one term...
...defeated President had no illusions about his fate. Said he: "The Ozal era is over." Thus ended eight years of strenuous economic growth (9.2% last year), in which Ozal opened Turkey to the West, bullied his countrymen into embracing free-enterprise capitalism and, in the course of backing the U.S.-led coalition in the gulf war, greatly ingratiated himself with George Bush. During 70 foreign trips, Ozal tirelessly emphasized Turkey's strategic importance. More than ever, he insisted, Ankara is vital as a bridge to the Middle East, a bulwark against Islamic fundamentalism, and a force for stability...
Another American hostage, Jesse Turner, 44, was released in Beirut last week, and once again the process followed a familiar pattern. One of the pro-Iranian Lebanese groups provided new evidence concerning the fate of one of the five Israeli soldiers still unaccounted for in Lebanon. Jerusalem responded by ordering the release of 15 Lebanese Shi'ite prisoners. That gesture, in turn, led to the freeing of Turner, a former mathematics professor who had been held for four years and nine months...
...highly regarded Crimson (8-2-1 overall; 2-1-1 Ivy) finds itself tied for third place with Princeton. Though its Ivy fate is dependent on Brown and Cornell, Harvard can hardly sit back and watch the score-boards as the Tigers are quite a formidible foe at 7-2-3 overall...