Word: fates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senate, 379-11 in the House). The appropriation was conveniently placed "off budget," meaning that it is exempt from a requirement that any new spending must be balanced by cuts elsewhere. It includes hundreds of millions for weapons that had been targeted for either budgetary death or a fate close to it before the war, and will add $2.9 billion to a deficit estimated at $308 billion for the current fiscal year. Some examples...
...blaze is likely to rekindle the debate over the fate of the new embassy building nearby, which was deemed unusable in 1985 when U.S. security experts discovered that the structure was riddled with electronic listening devices planted by Soviet workmen. Congress has been unable to agree on whether to tear down the building, which has already cost taxpayers $300 million, or to build a spy-proof addition atop the existing structure. Now the embassy has no home at all, and the staff has temporarily set up offices in auditoriums on the 13-acre compound...
FLASH FORWARD to the end of 1989. The house masters met with Jewett to ask him to consider placing transfer students in the houses and housing the subsequent overflow in DeWolfe. FAS, until then a major player in deciding DeWolfe's fate, was not involved. The decision rested with Jewett, and Jewett alone...
Second-doubles Melissa McNabb and Elmuts cut the lead to 4-3, but the Crimson then dropped first- and third-doubles, sealing Harvard's fate...
...colors -- bright, sensuous, all enveloping -- tell the story of a young Chinese woman, her brutal husband and her timid lover. Fate enshrouds them, as it has Zhang Yimou's beautiful film: Ju Dou has never played publicly in China, and the authorities tried unsuccessfully to rescind its Oscar nomination as Best Foreign Film...