And less than a year after the announcement that sealed the fate of the Keynsham factory, the last chocolate bar has rolled off the production line.
China could decide the fate of the oil price over the next year.
While the sales and acclaim will continue for the next year or so, they are not completely in control of their own fate.
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Alexander Haddad, a 66-year-old resident of the mountain hamlet of Maalula, is concerned about the fate of his ancient Christian community, but he takes the long view.
Consider the fate of Tommy Hilfiger, which is reorganizing after sales plummeted last year.
The arrival in Denver of a superstar of Manning's stature would raise questions about the fate of Tim Tebow, who became the Broncos starting quarterback last year amid electric fanfare and led the team into the playoffs.
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The likely fate of the Amazon under climate change came under focus early last year when, as one of a series of attacks on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Sunday Times newspaper accused the panel of having included an unsubstantiated claim that up to 40% of the forest could be affected by climate change in future.
The tech bloggers at Gizmodo, which got on Jobs' bad side earlier this year with video of a prototype iPhone 4 before the phone was released, pondered their possible fate if the story was true.
Thursday, top MBIA executives tried to calm investor anxiety about the fate of the firm, saying the stock's plunge in the last year was an over-reaction to problems facing the industry and the result of "fear-mongering" and "distortions" by self-interested investors.
Thursday, top MBIA (nyse: MBE - news - people ) executives tried to calm investor anxiety about the fate of the firm, saying the stock's plunge in the last year was an over-reaction to problems facing the industry and the result of "fear-mongering" and "distortions" by self-interested investors.
In the process, they are imperiling the re-election of colleagues this Fall whose fate may determine whether they enjoy majority status in the Senate next year or not.
First things first: That thousands of 4-year-olds across the city will be subject to a test that could determine their fate for the next 6, 9 or 13 years is a bit ludicrous.
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Moreover, critical US national security interests, such as the stability of the Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement, Egypt's 35-year strategic alignment with America following Sadat's pivot away from the Soviet Union, and the fate of the Arabian Peninsula's oil-and gas-producing regimes, justifiably weigh in the balance for Washington's decision-makers, and the West as a whole.
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But listen to the story of Vung Boih, a 17-year-old girl with sad, faraway eyes, and you realise that fate can be infinitely more cruel.
But the Moulinex story is also a cautionary tale about European business, because its fate was ultimately decided by the control structure that resulted from its merger at the end of last year with Brandt, the Italian offshoot of El.
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