Word: decking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tasting menus and double-digit corporate earnings. In fact, Wynn bet me $100, an amount I had to spend several minutes explaining to him, that the U.S.'s GDP growth will be positive by April 2011. In the meantime, he and the other people who run Vegas believe the deck will get reshuffled and new players will sit down at the table as casino owners, but the game itself won't change. Americans, they think, will continue to get economically better off. It sounds a little hollow, especially looking at this city in the desert that creates nothing, the world...
...with glasses, braces, and a wide grin that never left his face. His grandfather spoke no English but hovered behind him and smiled toothlessly. They reminded me of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, as they carried the golden ticket of excitement through the nonchalant reporters piled onto the top deck, and were the first to look through the telescope that was about three times the size of the kid himself...
...eclipse started, the people who remained waiting on line—unable to get onto the observatory deck with its fancy instruments and filters—abandoned caution and looked towards the sun with naked eyes. I was shocked that they would risk something so huge for something seemingly so unimportant. Nothing is worth irreparable eye damage. But I forgot my shock as I automatically turned with the crowd toward the perfect orange in the sky—eclipse shades luckily donned—and watched the moon ruthlessly vanquish it during the longest total eclipse to occur in Asia...
...While staring at the sun was interesting off and on, the people who collected—and eventually dispersed—on the observation deck that day proved more intriguing. The high-heeled woman who took off work to watch the sun at 9 a.m. rushed back, and worked overtime. The little girl who jumped with glee as she faced the receding, glowing-red blob was hurried onto a school bus to sit behind a desk for the next six hours or so. People flowed back onto the escalators—letting themselves be moved instead of moving?...
Sitting around their kitchen table, with grandchildren's plastic toys scattered on a deck beyond sliding-glass doors, the Katz family doesn't look or sound militant. Indeed, to American ears, their version of the national narrative sounds rather familiar. "I would love it that the little outposts someday have their own playgrounds and Little League," Sharon Katz says. "Israel shouldn't leave any hilltop! How did communities start out in the American West? With one log cabin. When we bought this land, it was a rocky hillside. Look what it looks like today...