Word: fates
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...next day, President Clinton convened his "White House Conference on the New Economy." Technology entrepreneurs and government officials gathered to discuss the fate of the booming Internet gold rush. While the tone was largely optimistic, Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan reiterated the need for a bracing injection of caution. And finally, also this week, the government ruled against Microsoft in its anti-trust battle. The fate of the software giant remains unclear, but it may ultimately go the way of Standard Oil and Ma Bell...
...anxiously awaited the envelope which would dictate my fate for the next three years, I chuckled at the thought of the poor slobs who'd be making the trek all the way from the Quad for the rest of their Harvard careers. I, plagued with delusions of grandeur, envisioned myself simply crossing Mass Ave. from Adams House to the Yard. Wait! What? Read it again! It doesn't...no...it can't be...CURRIER! Dreams of champagne and strawberries quickly dissolved into horror at the thought of shuttle schedules...
...days of public hearings before the Mid-Cambridge Conservation District Commission (MCDC) began the process that will decide the fate of Harvard's proposed Knafel Center for Government and International Studies...
...seems to be the fate of certain best sellers--the ones that propose to reveal the secrets of life in seven easy steps--to live on not for the lessons they impart but as poignant reminders of a cultural period. How to Win Friends & Influence People evokes a time of polyester salesmen tooling through leafy suburbs in aqua Buicks, hawking insurance policies and vacuum cleaners. Jonathan Livingston Seagull takes us back to an era when vegetarians in Earth Shoes tramped the countryside stalking the wild asparagus. Easy to read and easier to forget, they are books we look back...
...Lowndes County, the mayor and police chief of Atlanta and the two deputies he allegedly shot--that old system had been swept away, not by force but through patient protest and voting. How ironic that the heirs of the nonviolent revolution he walked away from now hold his fate in their hands...