The market has also been aided a great deal by fate.

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Bayh, a pro-free trade Democrat, was consistently on the wrong side of economic issues that determine the fate of Great Lakes manufacturing states such as Indiana.

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But that is the fate of all great high tech inventions.

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For them, the growth question, the environment, pollution, the fate of the great globe itself, had become a cause of religious intensity, and the optimistic Mr Simon was a heretic to be put to the pyre.

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While baseball allows its old hands to sometimes retire gracefully with their original team (see: Chipper Jones and the Atlanta Braves and, soon, Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera and the New York Yankees), that rarely happens in the NFL. Once you are deemed old and expensive (the fate of all great players, in theory), you are usually gone.

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The economic outlook was simply too dismal and the borrowing needs too great for Spain to avoid the same fate as Greece, Ireland and Portugal.

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Lewis, who never anticipated feeling intense romantic love, finds this twist of fate inconceivably cruel: the great experience of his life turns out to be a case of too much, too late.

NEWYORKER: Shadowlands

But there was method to my madness because by the next dry season, the fate of the Cardamoms, the last great wilderness left in Indochina, may already be decided, before almost anyone from the outside world gets a look at it.

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Well, piece by piece, threaded together by a mysterious book called The History of Love, the story of Leo and Alma, their loves and losses, families and fate, all come together to reveal to us a great story .

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