Word: wrappings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...illegal-immigration activists often cite the threat of jihadists creeping across the Rio Grande. Two years ago, when a company from Dubai tried to take over the operation of some U.S. ports, both Democratic and Republican politicians erupted in a demagogic frenzy. For many Americans, globalization is unsettling enough. Wrap it in a kaffiyeh, and you have a political revolt...
...Learning to ride a bike without training wheels was more of the same. If two heads are better than one, why aren’t four tires better than two? I simply could not wrap my mind around the fact that a couple thin pieces of rubber should be trusted to uphold my hulking 50-pound frame. All that stood between the delicate skin of my knee-caps and the jagged battlefield of a sidewalk was some bouncy plastic? Sorry, not happening...
...took you a while to place it—or you caught yourself flipping to the inner blurb entitled “A Note on the Cover”—it’s probably because the building is brand new, just out of its Tyvek wrap and with a few stray hard hats lying around to prove it. Designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), San Francisco, it’s doors opened to students on September 15, 2008, the first day of classes.Located just beyond the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH), the building defines...
...where Eng's Republican opponent has set up his headquarters. To get to Mike Coffman's office in Highlands Ranch, you have to drive past mile after mile of McMansion developments with names like Berkshire Residences and soon-to-be-opened box stores that still have the plastic wrap on. In the late 1980s, the area was home to just a few hundred residents; today more than 100,000 live in Highlands Ranch...
...Still, it's unlikely that the presidential campaign will wrap up with a string of feel-good ads that promote each candidate's virtues while saying nary a false word about the other. As long as candidates can get away with testing the limits of voters' gullibility and tolerance, they will. If the last few decades have taught candidates anything, it's that truth in political advertising is for losers...