Word: armors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three weeks ago, it seemed as if Janet Reno may actually have found a chink in Microsoft's armor. The attorney general filed suit against the software behemoth, claiming they were bullying computer manufacturers into accepting Internet Explorer as part of the Windows 95 bundle ? in violation of a 1996 court order. But now the empire ? through its legal minions ? has struck back...
...goal, clad in armor that included hip pads, shin guards, kickers--field hockey goalie boots--and a pelvic guard, (for crotch shots teammates nicknamed "flying birth control") Mayer became a defensive machine as passionate about the sport as she was skilled at perfecting it. Although she played basketball and track in the off-season, Mayer's sights increasingly concentrated on field hockey...
...Armor Nylon backpack Kevlar vest...
...seemed like the plot of a very bad movie, but it wasn't, and before it was over Chris Foote and Spring Wright were dead. Five intruders in ski masks, two with body armor, stormed a three-bedroom bungalow in the Maryvale area of Phoenix, Ariz., at 4 a.m. one day last week, using a sledgehammer to bludgeon their way into the house. In one bedroom they found Louisa Sharrah and proceeded to bind her arms with plastic cuffs and strike her with a metal flashlight. The men woke her young children and held them at gunpoint as they screamed...
...eight months and in the process gave software designers new insights into building better security systems. Hackers have become so adept at finding security holes in the Internet that Netscape, maker of the leading Web browser, pays a bounty for any chinks in the program's encryption armor that are reported to the company...