Word: roman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life, low- and middle-income residents voice fears of being pushed out of boomtowns as the increased demand for housing sends prices to the sky. Growth critics imagine the West turning into a string of Vail-like resorts, where the rich play and others stay away. Denver's Roman Catholic Archbishop J. Francis Stafford wrote in a pastoral letter last fall, "We risk creating a theme park 'alternate reality' for those who have the money to purchase entrance and around them sprawls a growing buffer zone of the working poor...
Also, exam groups are no longer indicated by Roman numerals, but are denoted by Arabic numerals...
...Exam group numbers] were only in Roman numerals to distinguish them from the other numbers, but now that we specify what [the other numbers] are, it's not necessary," Smith said. "I think Roman numerals are just a little more difficult to use than regular numbers...
...their arrest, Michael persuades the D.A.'s office to let him try the case. His superiors, of course, know nothing about his lifelong friendship with the defendants, and Michael does not tell them he plans intentionally to lose the case. Which he does, with the crucial help of a Roman Catholic priest from the old neighborhood, who perjures himself on the witness stand and provides an alibi for Tommy and John on the night of the murder...
Seen in that light, the Jews who rejected Jesus were instruments of Satan. The Evangelist Mark treats them as chiefly responsible for the Crucifixion, while softening the role of the Roman authorities. In Mark, the Roman governor Pilate, whom other sources of the period describe as a provincial tyrant, becomes a man helpless to oppose the Jewish elders demanding Christ's death. The later Evangelists expanded Mark's themes, paving the way for early Christian fathers who glimpsed the devil in their own adversaries...