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Word: bulletproof (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Court employees crippled the judicial system yesterday with their third strike of the anti-drug war, led by judges who want guns and bulletproof cars for protection from assassins hired by cocaine barons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Colombian Court Staff Strikes for Safety | 11/4/1989 | See Source »

...National Association of Court Workers, which declared the strike, began months ago demanding bulletproof vests and cars, guns, weapons training, bodyguards, metal detectors for offices and even devices that detect fumes emitted by dynamite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Colombian Court Staff Strikes for Safety | 11/4/1989 | See Source »

...Secret Service imported a two-inch-thick, 75-foot-long sheet of bulletproof glass to place in front of the National Museum for today's inauguration of Democracy Plaza in order to protect Bush, Colombian President Virgilio Barco and the others. Barco's life has been threatened by drug barons in his country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bush, Latin Leaders Celebrate Democracy | 10/28/1989 | See Source »

After community leaders proved unable to cool the violence, school officials decided to bulletproof the school. Last week workmen began building a 10-ft.- high, 900-ft.-long concrete wall to shield Lindbergh from the housing project. Cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: The Great Wall Of Long Beach | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

...many, that is miracle enough. After the news broke, visitors, intrigued by these inexplicable matters, continued to flock to the Turin chapel where the the rolled-up cloth rests in a silver box behind bulletproof glass. Said local cab driver Angelo Di Conza: "Until they prove how the image got there -- and the technology to make such an image didn't exist in the 14th century -- then I think the scientific question remains open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Debunking The Shroud of Turin | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

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