Word: armorers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lessen King Henry's achievements. Edward Atienza would do well to rid his King Charles of lapses into the Maurice Evans tremolo; but it is effective, when he calls the roll of French nobles from the gallery, to have them line up in the shadows below clad in full armor and helmet, with their backs to the audience...
...Fallows, is the force that must use them. He repeats many of the common arguments about the volunteer army as employer of last resort. For example, this astounding statistic--in 1980, of the 100,860 men who were serving their first term as enlisted men in the infantry or armor artillery, exactly 25 (men, not per cent) had college degrees. But he adds new dimensions to the usual discussion of social inequality by stressing he military effects of an all-poor army. "I think the mixture of middle-class men had a real modulating effect," he quotes one expert...
...your life back like some kind of ornamental shrub. I couldn't put the old white horse out to pasture, hock the tin armor, stand the lance in the corner of the barn. For a while, yes. For the healing time...
...these are going to regular businessmen, not someone who is a bodyguard or in law enforcement." In 1978 the company turned a new Cadillac into a James Bond car for the Shah of Iran, adding a bomb sniffer, ducts that sprayed tear gas, machine-gun mounts and enough armor plate to withstand a grenade or a land mine. After he lost the Peacock Throne, the Shah refused title to the car, forfeiting a $50,000 deposit...
...California's O'Gara Coach Co., is a distributor of armored cars to 18 foreign governments and has done business with the wealthy in some 35 other countries. He says that his clients today are less enamored of armor and gadgets and more aware of the need for professional security men. "Hiring trained people will make a 300% increase in security," says O'Gara. "An armored car is a small part of the total security package...