Word: specter
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...trip to Bilbao, Spain, two years ago, Lotti was struck by the wildly spiraling metallic towers of the Guggenheim Museum. "It looked so different from everything around it," he recalls. "I wanted to do the same thing with a shoe." Eighteen months later, Nike unveiled the Air Max Specter, a slip-on sneaker with an upper sole of grooved, sinuous curves, available in the same titanium gray as the museum's exterior. The shoe became the season's No. 1 seller...
...specter is haunting europe. An erratic foreign leader, bellicose in his rhetoric, directing a powerful army, spending freely on new weapons, is thumbing his nose at the international community and raising the chance of war in the Middle East. Step forward George W. Bush. That's how the U.S. President wants the world to see Saddam Hussein. But it's what a lot of U.S. allies are saying, or muttering, about Bush himself...
...could find themselves fighting? The U.S. and Europe, says Hanson. He points ominously to "the specter of a pan-European state [that] seems to create unity among its members by collective antagonism and envy of the United States...
...Meanwhile, in Washington, the White House admitted that it has since Sept. 11 been operating a shadow government in various undisclosed locations, thus equating the al Qaeda nuclear threat with the specter of the Soviet Union, circa 1980. And in the real government - the one that's supposed to be united in protecting those of us who don't have shadow homes to hide out in - partisanship is once again bumping up against the water's edge, with Democrats this week voicing their first big break with the White House's handling...
...Checks and balances exist. Every yufu user is required to sign the notes they issue. Ultimately they will be called upon to redeem those notes by performing a service for the bearer. The specter of weeks spent washing other people's clothes after a yufu spending spree at the sake shop effectively limits the money supply. The moral: being your own central bank isn't so much fun when the yufu stops here...