Word: markers
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...largely as a result of what will always be known as the Waldheim Affair, Austria finally got beyond its mythic self-image as the first victim of National Socialism and faced up to its own share of responsibility in Hitler's assault on human values. Waldheim was an ambiguous marker on that road to a broader truth...
...person struck a security camera. The individual was run for warrants with negative result and sent on their way.May 12: 6:05 a.m.: Officers were dispatched to 173 Pleasant St. to a report of an assault. An individual choked the reporting party and wrote on their face with a marker. The attacking individual was found to be intoxicated and upon arrival of the officers, became aggressive, began yelling, and tried to strike one of them. Stephen Wheeler, 41, of Cambridge, was placed under arrest and charged with assault and battery, and domestic abuse.May 15: 4:21 p.m.: HUPD responded...
...trial at Moorfields is not a conceptual breakthrough for the young science of gene therapy - there have been other trials on procedures in other organs - but, as a milestone, it's a good marker of where the field stands today. At its most basic, gene therapy is anything that introduces new genetic material to help fight or prevent a disorder. Treatment options are still in the experimental stages, and are not free of philosophical critics. But gene therapy has also been heralded as a potential cure for all kinds of genetic diseases (think cystic fibrosis or sickle-cell anemia...
...grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a 10-page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads it. The generality writer banks on the knowledge possessed by the grader, hoping the marker will read things into his essay...
...that could be a talisman of intent, since it takes aim at George W. Bush from multiple directions, diagnoses what's wrong with our democracy and offers ideas for curing it. Why else would you write a book like that, they say, if you weren't laying down a marker...