Word: marked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...painful bottoming out of the crisis is occurring in East Asia. But the return to growth will be very gradual, barring any other unforeseen disruption. In this respect, the ability of China to manage the stability-growth-reform trilemma in an increasingly difficult environment is an ominous question mark. In the same vein, the issue of when Japan will start to become part of the solution to global economic woes instead of being part of the problem remains open...
...finally over. After five years and nigh on $50 million of phony, partisan investigations and more than a year of media hysteria and round-the-clock cable coverage, the scandal has finally come to a close. The Senate vote will mark an end to this ugly chapter, and congressional Democrats and Republicans will make peace and begin solving the problems of the next millennium...
...example, two months from now, I'll sit in my tax guy's office and sign a government form under a line that says, "Under penalty of perjury, I hereby attest that every statement herein, every jot and tittle and numerical figure and punctuation mark, is absolutely and utterly true and complete, otherwise God help me," and even though I have no idea what statements are herein and the form may as well be written in Hittite, I will sign my name and so attest. My tax guy has other customers waiting. I look down at the word perjury...
...must have known the slightly younger Johannes Vermeer. Five years later, he was working in Amsterdam. He married and had seven children. None of his letters survive, and no drawings either. In 1684 he died in a madhouse. Whatever his affliction may have been, it left no interpretable mark on his work. Nothing is known about his personality, and it doesn't matter. And that's about it, except for the fact that his critical fortunes rose steeply in the 19th century--and the much odder fact that until now, no museum in or out of Holland has ever bothered...
...Douglas Waller. With reporting by Bruce Crumley/Paris and Mark Thompson/Washington