Word: armoring
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Xbox—“Gears” is a violent tactical shooter, with photorealistic graphics and elegant gameplay.But you’d be hard-pressed to deduce any of this from watching the TV spot.The ad opens with a post-apocalyptic scene of wreckage, as a lone armor-clad space marine type runs through desolate streets, pumping rounds into foreboding alien-infested shadows. So far, so good. But as the “camera”—all footage was captured in-game, as Microsoft gleefully points out—pans down on the first shot...
...dollars into a 20th century weapons system that sprang from the drawing board when Russia was still the Soviet Union. As F-22 attack planes and Virginia-class submarines consumed the Pentagon's purse, there weren't enough soldiers to prevail in Iraq - and those dispatched lacked the necessary armor to do their jobs...
...happy to whip up specially tailored creations. Here are three addresses certain to please any style hound hungering for something unique. ENLEVER SES VETEMENTS: Despite its name (take off their clothes in French), this menswear shop, tel: (66-2) 640 8088, is all about putting on a daily armor that wouldn't look out of place in a style capital like London or New York City. In fact, artist turned designer Suparerk Bhasaputra is a New York transplant. Born in Bangkok, he spent 25 years in the Big Apple before returning to his birthplace. "When I first got here...
...Returning to the Green Zone on Thursday, this time entering through checkpoints along the 14th of July Bridge, I found the sergeant in charge of the crossing in no laughing mood as he stood, tense, in the blazing heat wearing full body armor, overseeing the movement of people across a bridge that has drawn sniper fire in recent weeks. He checked my badge and my passport and asked to see another form of identification. I gave him my Washington, D.C., drivers license, which he said he needed to keep at the checkpoint while I was inside. I was assured, however...
...WHAT IT HAS ACTUALLY DONE Has run graphic and misleading television ads against Republican Senators George Allen and Rick Santorum, funded with regulated contributions to VoteVets' political-action committee, suggesting their votes against a Democratic funding measure deprived U.S. troops of modern body armor. In fact, the Government Accountability Office found that a lack of money didn't cause the armor shortfall in 2003. Rather, the military's suppliers could not keep up with the sudden surge in demand for the armor...