Word: ages
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...age 4 he nearly died. Budapest was swept by a scarlet fever epidemic, and young Andras succumbed. He remembers waking up in the hospital and thinking to himself, "I'm dead. I'm in my grave looking up at the sky." The fever left a mark: his eardrums were perforated like a colander, the result of a middle-ear infection...
...recycling string and splitting two-ply toilet paper long after their portfolios had reached seven figures. There is something about even a glimpse of poverty, much less the experience of it, that leaves scars, of humiliation and terror and resolve not ever to live there again. In a restless age, when the days are long and dense and full of surprises, when industries change overnight, it's little wonder that it's harder to dream, easier to toss and turn till morning comes again...
...newlywed at the age of 71, some 44 years after his first marriage was annulled, an admirer of high tech who nonetheless drafts speeches in longhand, a Republican who gets along better with the Clinton Administration than he ever did with its G.O.P. predecessors, Alan Greenspan has long been a man of surprises. But none is more startling than his recent transformation in the public mind. Back in 1994, when he was engineering a series of interest-rate increases, the Federal Reserve chairman was regularly assailed as a zealot willing to strangle economic growth in pursuit of a chimerical goal...
...philanthropic dramas, as a roaring bull market induced conspicuous giving from Ted Turner, George Soros and Bill Gates. And yet the richest 1% of Americans still give only 2% of their annual gross income to charity. It made Feeney's silent work seem all the more admirable. In an age of aggrandizement, Feeney showed that humble hearts still beat. In many ways, that is a revelation even more gratifying than the sums he has given away...
...Ethiopian Orthodox Church, such devotion is commonplace. Nothing has ever succeeded in crushing the simple rituals of piety that have been practiced here since the 4th century--not the communist ideology that ruled Ethiopia for much of the past two decades, not the cynicism of the modern age, not the latest plagues of civil war, famine, poverty and AIDS...