Word: wente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...atmosphere was much more congenial than it has been in year's past. The elections went more smoothly and quickly than expected," said new Vice-President of Corporate Relations Carey E. Schwaber...
...things also went out. From the 14th to the 19th centuries, the tesoro was regularly pillaged--in riots, civil wars, revolutions and invasions. During the decline of the Franciscan order, the monks themselves were not above alleviating their holy poverty by doing a little de-accessioning. They were apparently following their founder's injunction by selling what they had and giving the proceeds to the poor (themselves). All in all, what remains of the basilican treasury is only a fragment of its earlier glories. So one should not, perhaps, expect too much from this show. In any case, it bears...
...work in precious metals--reliquaries, chalices and other kinds of liturgical equipment. The reliquaries were done at the highest pitch of craft, mostly by goldsmiths whose names have not survived. A modern eye is more apt to enjoy the spectacle of the concentrated, disciplined labor that went into building a tiny sarcophagus out of gold and rock crystal to house a brown bit of human tissue that may or may not have been part of St. Vitus, or a supposed rag off the "seamless robe" worn by Christ at his Crucifixion. Seven hundred years ago, of course...
After the NASDAQ dropped 5.6% on Monday, wounded highflyers regained their strength for the umpteenth time. "Tech and Internet enthusiasts are hard to keep down," observes Byron Wien, analyst at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. So AOL, which went from $167 to $116 in a blink, was quickly back at $146. Amazon.com poster child for Internet speculation, shot from $184 to $159 to--gads!--$210. With lightning speed the reversal was reversed, and what had been shaping up as a seismic shift in the market turned out to be just a sneeze...
...money to the Cuban defector Orlando Hernandez. And so the thought became "I would like for Cuba to play baseball against the great Baltimore Orioles!" And on March 28 it was so, when an Orioles team featuring some of the highest-priced talent in the bigs went down to Havana and became the first Major League Baseball team to play there since Castro started, er, managing the island in 1959. The Cuban national team, minus several stars, lost an extra-inning game 3-2, showing that they could compete with the big boys...