Word: armorer
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...prospect of several seasons of wintry revenue forecasts, despondent over foundering stock indexes, and possibly projecting its depression onto the American consumer, sees another closing of wallets coming. The professionals, sniffing an apocalypse, are crying out for rescue by the man they are most accustomed to seeing in shining armor: Greenspan. We need 75, 100, 150 basis points, they moan, or the bears shall surely...
BULLETPROOF GLASS AND ARMOR Tinted glass and all-over lightweight Kevlar armor can withstand shots from a .44 magnum...
...evil that Furst, 60, writes about so passionately is the arrogance of power exercised at the expense of ordinary men. Once he saw a police state, he was angry for the rest of his life. "I hate what people do to people," he says. "I have no armor against it. It's always fresh to me. I can't stand it." That anger has given birth to five novels that attracted a cult following, but the recently published Kingdom of Shadows (Random House; 239 pages; $24.95) is provoking mainstream attention...
...plunge through Germany's Fulda Gap. Iraq is contained, and North Korea is mellowing. Instead, threats are festering in less-developed regions, such as the Balkans and Africa, where heavy guns generally can't maneuver. Artillery--with its less than precise targeting--is designed to disrupt the massed armor and troop concentrations found on traditional battlefields. But future conflicts will focus on swift, dispersed combatants that provide scant prey for artillery...
...Depleted uranium is attractive to armorers because of its high ratio of mass to bulk, which gives it the ability to pierce heavy armor. The by-product of the fuel-enrichment process used by nuclear power stations, it contains fairly low doses of radiation, but is acknowledged to carry some risk of cancer and other ailments if directly ingested, inhaled or absorbed through cuts. That knowledge, and the circumstantial link between high rates of illness and service in territories where NATO has fired large amounts of depleted-uranium ordnance, is enough to have European NATO members demanding further discussion over...