Word: mannerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent statistic, over 60 percent of households still cook with wood--resulting in a high incidence of respiratory illnesses. But I am lucky. I am staying in a house with a stove and a refrigerator and (at times) hot water. (The water company distributes its goods in a Kafkaesque manner; when the tanks are dry--which happened for a span of four days during my stay--the community resorts to using buckets...
Saturnine by disposition, Syrian President Hafez Assad is not known for saying anything nice about anyone. So it astonished all manner of Middle East pundits last week when he showered praise on the leader of his No. 1 enemy, Israel. Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak, Assad told an Arabic newspaper, is a "strong and honest man" who had a "real desire for peace." Barak blew a few kisses of his own, crediting Assad with creating a "strong, independent, self-confident" country...
...supersize embezzlement may be a match for our gaudy times. Martin Frankel, 44, a.k.a. David Rosse, a.k.a. Eric Stevens, accused of absconding with as much as $335 million through a bewildering web of insurance companies, bogus investment funds and phony charitable organizations, was, in his own charmingly inept manner, pursuing a twisted but very '90s version of the American Dream...
...high school student in Toledo, Ohio, Frankel obsessed over financial markets. As an adult and college dropout, he fretted over the opportunities he perceived were passing him by. Of medium build, with brown hair and a diffident, stumbling, yet loquacious manner, Frankel came across as a possessor of arcane knowledge that would empower him and his clients. "He is the most inconspicuous guy you can imagine," says Jeff Creamer, a Toledo lawyer who represented two of Frankel's earliest victims. "That, coupled with what appears to be an Einstein-like devotion to the financial world, makes [people] think they have...
...have someone who has not been a parent before, I wonder if they can really appreciate the significance of creating a life in this manner," he said. "I would be concerned that the size of the financial inducement is such that it's not going to be either a free or voluntary choice on the individual's behalf...