Word: fates
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...avoid the fate of Lehman or Bear, the firm's board may feel like it needs to do something to boost it's stock price. One option would be to boot chief executive Vikram Pandit. Some on Wall Street believe Pandit has not been quick enough to react to the problems of the firm and could still be in denial. On Friday, Pandit told top executives that he doesn't believe Citi needs to sell off parts of its business to raise capital. Investors don't seem to agree. The stock fell on the news...
...season finale left the Crimson unsure if it was going to have the opportunity to play another match this season.Harvard (11-5, 5-2 Ivy) had finished third in the Ivy League and was far from being guaranteed a spot in the NCAA Tournament. The Crimson’s fate was out of its hands.“It was miserable,” co-captain Michael Fucito said. “Guys were really on edge that whole day.”That nervousness was transformed into excitement around 6:00 Monday night, when the team learned that...
...that Rose still has his snarl. His voice always was a power tool with endless precision settings, and on "Better" he opens by speak-singing in a tender falsetto before the guitars kick in and he sandblasts away at the melody. What Rose has to say - "A twist of fate, the change of heart kills my infatuation" etc. - is a bland list of romantic gripes that fail to diminish the song's impact one bit because it's how Rose sings that matters. Repeating the word better in the bridge, he spits the b's and drags his vocal cords...
...considered a Young Turk. But in challenging and unseating a committee chairman known as "the Truck," California Congressman Henry Waxman has succeeded in the kind of power sortie that happens only once every few decades in Congress - and put himself in a position where he will help determine the fate of much of Barack Obama's domestic agenda...
...favor of independence. There was also a public film screening Thursday evening of secretly recorded interviews with 108 Tibetans from inside Tibet. Those views could have a significant influence on the direction of the movement. As one independence activist told me, "How can 100,000 Tibetans decide the fate of 5 million?" Resolving that paradox will be the next test of Tibet's unique brand of distributed democracy...