Word: vesting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Beale Street’s heat had pulled us to Blues City, where we’d been greeted by the bouncer, an enormous man in a black leather vest and a long skinny ponytail that fell greasily onto his back. The band didn’t look much different: their hair all long, frizzy, and pulled back into awkward ponytails. Matt and Andrew exchanged skeptical looks. “They look like they should be members of the Dungeons and Dragons club or something,” Andrew whispered...
...Only four other Justices had longer terms. Rehnquist continued the rightward march of the court begun during the Burger era and executed what legal scholars call a revolution in federalism, leading the court in a series of decisions that returned powers to the states that Congress had tried to vest in Washington. That quiet overhaul of authority earned Rehnquist a place as "one of the most important figures in the entire history of American law," says Cass Sunstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago...
...weeks longer, so she is the one squinting into the dark looking for the right set of headlights. Suddenly, something on one of the side roads emits a flash and a roar-I look up to see not the bus but someone in a reflector-taped crossing-guard vest waving wildly at us, shouting in our direction. “I think someone’s calling you, Elisa,” I say. I’ve been in town for three days-I don’t know anyone in Santa Ana. Elisa looks up and sees...
...many U.S. or Iraqi soldiers as he can reach. Marwan Abu Ubeida says he has been training for months to carry out a suicide mission. He doesn't know when or where he will be ordered to climb into a bomb-laden vehicle or strap on an explosives-filled vest but says he is eager for the moment to come. While he waits, he spends much of his time rehearsing that last prayer. "First I will ask Allah to bless my mission with a high rate of casualties among the Americans," he says, speaking softly in a matter-of-fact...
...life away from their parents: wet towels snap, clusters of card players shriek and giggle. Liu doesn't expect to sew seams forever. In two years she hopes to save enough to study for a better job and move on. "Who knows," she says, gazing at a Timberland vest, "someday maybe I'll meet someone who wears one of these." If that ever happens, perhaps they will be friends. --Reported by Hannah Beech/Shanghai, Chaim Estulin/Hong Kong, Matthew Forney/Beijing, Susan Jakes/ Kaiping and Elaine Shannon/Washington...