Word: holster
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When Congress adopted an obscure antiracketeering law in 1970, it seemed to target a particular kind of criminal: the old-school gangster wearing a fedora and a bulging shoulder holster. Nowadays, however, when federal prosecutors trigger the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, their sights are often set on a very different sort of defendant: a wealthy professional in designer pinstripes and Gucci loafers. In the nearly 20 years of its existence, RICO has evolved beyond its Mob-busting origins to become a powerful legal weapon against the upper reaches of white-collar crime. And because of its broad civil...
...graduation of Kate Felsen, a first-team All-Ivy attack and the top goal scorer in the Ivy League last year, has left the team with an empty holster. The absence of last year's co-captains, Cindi Ersek and Leelee Groome, will deprive the Crimson of even more scoring ammunition. Ersek joined Felsen as a first-team All-Ivy attack, and Groome was a second-team All-Ivy attack...
...with a relatively fresh face and a reputation for boldness and candor. Decades of familiarity with Arafat's role as both Jekyll and Hyde have bred if not contempt then at least deep suspicion. The effect of Arafat's trademarks -- the kaffiyeh, the pseudo uniform, the cultivated scruffiness, the holster (empty or otherwise) -- often hovers between the silly and the sinister. He is the sort of survivor who tends to give survival a bad name. His longevity has often seemed the consequence not of constancy but of artful dodging...
...host nation for the U.N., the U.S. is generally obliged to permit anyone to bring his case to the world organization, though it reserves the right to exclude security threats. In 1974 Arafat appeared before the General Assembly, an empty pistol holster conspicuous on his hip. At first, Shultz hid behind the flimsy excuse that Arafat had not formally asked for a visa. Then Arafat called the American bluff by making the request through the U.S. consulate in Tunis. The State Department said it would "severely scrutinize" his application. The possibility that the Americans might refuse the visa had angered...
...they strike a peculiar stance between boldness and indecipherability, making the work of minor French cubists like Gleizes or Metzinger seem wispy and ladylike by comparison. The extreme case was Zapatista Landscape--The Guerrilla, Rivera's masterpiece of 1915. It has everything in it from a rifle and pistol holster to a sarape, a sombrero and the snow-capped Mexican cordillera. Yet despite all the detail, the figure of % the Zapatista is hard to find; some analogy between cubist hide-and-seek and a real guerrilla's elusiveness got Rivera thinking about camouflage and disappearance...