Word: fates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...print. He had fiddled on the fringes of Hollywood, helping to write Stanley Kubrick's The Killing and Paths of Glory, but found no steady work. His one solace was booze, in punishing quantities. No wonder the typical Thompson antihero was a smart guy who got outsmarted by fate, fast company or himself...
...foremost players in the ongoing dispute--representatives of groups with drastically different visions of the Central Artery's final form--are sitting down together at the bargaining table. They have a state mandate to draft a recommendation about the fate of Scheme Z by April...
...later a hospital, a school or an apartment block will be reduced to flesh and rubble by an errant U.S. bombing mission. How will I and the nation react to pictures of, say, an Iraqi woman, her clothes on fire, running, stumbling, screaming at the injustice of her fate? Intellectually, I will accept responsibility, for the saturation bombing of Iraq is part of a wrenching decision that my country made openly and democratically with my full complicity. But can I steel my emotions? A ground war in Kuwait will only be worse. Can I bear to watch a TV clip...
...clarity has been assured, only tragedy remains. Both sides, it seems, are ready for war because neither is willing to suffer a supposedly worse fate -- the humiliation that capitulation, or its perception, implies...
Much in the style of Liberia's late President Samuel Doe, Siad Barre, a onetime policeman who seized power in a military coup in 1969, sealed his own fate by depending more and more on his kinsmen and overreacting to any challenge to his autocratic rule. Former U.S. diplomat Chester Crocker, a professor at Georgetown University, calls Siad Barre an "old-style, feudal, tribal chieftain." The country is ethnically homogeneous -- 98.8% are Somalis -- so there are no significant tribal hatreds. But its 8 million people are split into rival clans that have been battling one another for centuries...