Word: outerness
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...climate change starts inflicting losses, insurers will again head for the exits. Just such insurer flight has already caused problems in North Carolina's Outer Banks and in parts of New York's fabled Hamptons, where coastal storms are eating up homes and businesses. When insurance companies quit these high-risk places, the burden shifts to banks. But they don't have the same freedom simply to cancel mortgages and loans. What will happen to the markets if banks start demanding insurance for weather-related events that is either prohibitively expensive or completely unavailable...
...couture show that Galliano designed for Christian Dior in January, inspired by a recent trip to China and Japan, McGrath took Kabuki to its outer reaches, left, painting faces white, blue and pink. "Every designer takes you on a different journey," she says. "It's great when they let you into their fantasy." --By Michele Orecklin...
Such a line would link the red line to a station across the river, connecting Harvard Square to Allston, Boston University, and the Longwood Medical Center, and would connect the outer fingers of all the other T lines so that travellers would no longer have to go into the center of Boston in order to switch T lines...
...tiny, most of them no more than 50 feet square. Their mud walls are topped with rows of whitewashed bricks; in the four corners are small brick kiosks, some of which serve as machine-gun stations. Many of the forts also include small brick bunkers. Painted on the outer walls of each fort are exhortations of bravery and sacrifice by Saddam Hussein...
...synthetic shirt that would shed sweat as fast as the Lycra compression shorts he wore under his football pants. High-end specialists who sold gear for mountaineering and skiing offered pricey garments made with an inner layer of fabric that wicked perspiration away from the skin to an outer layer where it would evaporate. These clothes helped prevent hypothermia in extreme cold. But nobody made what Plank wanted: an affordable, featherweight, moisture-wicking T shirt--one that would fit skintight so it would lie flat under straps and pads...