Word: provenance
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...recent years several states have quietly been remaking themselves into international financial players, on a scale unprecedented at least since the fall of the Soviet Union. Unlike the East bloc, however, the new state capitalists - China, Russia and the Persian Gulf states, primarily - have proven so successful that even before the crisis they caused world leaders to wonder if democratic capitalism might not be the best economic model after...
...players, MySpace, and Facebook all made it easier to display your taste, as well, and suddenly the hipster was a public figure. Question: How many hipsters does it take to change a lightbulb? Answer: You don’t know?This obsession is insidious. Science has proven that musical taste is a perfectly valid personality indicator, but the hipster persona has boiled it down to a dark, bitter, cynical syrup. Speaking as someone who is more confident in her personality than in her playlist, this cannot be healthy.Perhaps you think I’m overstating the level of the obsession...
...while the Democratic Party has a history of pro-LGBT promises, the inaction of Democratic candidate Barack Obama on issues such as gay marriage should make his party less attractive to members of the LGBT community. “I’m not sure he’s proven that he can deliver on anything more than his words,” Sammon said. Hoadley countered Sammon by citing the voting records of each presidential candidate and the necessity of holding candidates accountable for their actions in the past. “Are we rewarding a party that...
...surprise to most who follow fencing. Then again, even Harvard students unfamiliar with the sport might have been unsurprised at the win once learning that it belonged to Emily R. Cross ’08-’10, a member of the Harvard fencing team who has long proven her ability to perform under stressful conditions...
...Since the Bush administration first negotiated the agreement in 2005, the Indian-American community has organized heavily in order to guarantee its passage. As The New York Times reported in 2006, “Indian-Americans, as well as the Indian government in some cases, have invested heavily in proven political tools that have helped previous immigrant groups break into American politics—hiring lobbyists, organizing fund-raisers and blanketing Capitol Hill with briefings, phone calls and petitions.” Powerful Washington insiders, including a former U.S. ambassador to India, Robert D. Blackwill, and former Indiana Senator Birch...