Word: armorers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Throughout the 10-week trial Gotti gave every indication that he still < believed in his own invincibility. He wore the trademark suits and helmet of hair like armor, as though his natty legend would protect him once again. Overflow crowds craned for a glimpse of him; the tabloids kept up a colorful commentary, not only on the testimony about loan-sharking, extortion and murder but also on his choice of neckwear and the fluff of his pocket handkerchief. In court he made mocking gestures, blew a kiss at lead prosecutor John Gleeson and growled loudly at U.S. Attorney Andrew Maloney...
Children who are presented with coloring books like A. G. Smith's Knights and Armor, for example, are supposed to check out the "glossary of terms" in the back. And you can bet that the author doesn't intend for artists to fill in the line drawings with Crayola's new, vibrant colors: "wild strawberry" or "jungle green." No, Smith wants colorists to learn: If that means using the same depressing gray crayon on page after page in order to maintain accuracy, then...
Stockholder gripes about executive greed are beginning to make dents in the armor of some of the nation's top brass. A proxy statement revealed last week the first application of Westinghouse Electric's tough pay-for-performance system, which slashed the income of CEO Paul Lego and 13 other top officers by as much as 62%. With that response to the company's $1 billion loss on nearly $13 billion of sales last year, Westinghouse joins IBM, which cut the compensation of chairman John Akers and four of his colleagues by 40% and took smaller cuts from 60 other...
...shot through the head. Armenians claim the footage is fake. They insist that they left a corridor open for civilians to flee Khojaly but that Azerbaijani soldiers led a group of 200 civilians into harm's way. The use of surface-to-air missiles, sophisticated Grad rocket batteries and armor proves that both sides are now armed with state-of-the-art weapons that were bequeathed by, sold by or stolen from Soviet units...
...thoroughly modern and liberated pre-women were in love with the idea of being in love and being courted by those knights in shining armor of the brat pack. We rented Gone With the Wind, Say Anything and Pretty in Pink and weltzschmerzed about our celibate lives...