Word: fates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ayalas did not passively accept their daughter's fate. They knew from their doctors that the best hope for Anissa lay in a marrow transplant from a sibling, but the marrow of her only brother, Airon, was incompatible. Her life, it seemed, could depend on a sibling who did not yet exist...
...should accommodate only when his fate and that of nature are inextricably bound up.The most urgent accommodation must be made when the very integrity of man's habitat -- e.g., atmospheric ozone -- is threatened. When the threat to man is of a lesser order (say, the pollutants from coal- and oil-fired generators that cause death from disease but not fatal damage to the ecosystem), a more modulated accommodation that balances economic against health concerns is in order. But in either case the principle is the same: protect the environment -- because it is man's environment...
...Listen," a bespectacled intellectual interrupted. "These elections will not only decide the fate of Russia but the entire country. Yeltsin needs our support...
...Trotsky -- as a bogey. But whatever prejudices and illusions "mainstream" thinking once depended on, racism was not among them, and Bearden got left out of the history books because those who wrote them lacked the imagination to find a frame in which to put his work. Such was the fate of the reflective, mildly conservative artist -- which Bearden certainly was -- in a culture dedicated to the proposition that only "radical" change matters. The complete institutional sweep made by Abstract Expressionism, by hostility to narrative and by the cult of the huge-object-as-spectacle rudely elbowed Bearden to the side...
...playing days were interrupted, and then arrested, by a season-ending injury his junior year. In a bizarre precursor to the ill fate his future team, the Crimson, suffers every time it travels to New Haven, Conn., Tomassoni broke his left arm in two places in the Yale Whale...