Word: bulletproof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...before; last November, Furrow tried to commit himself to a psychiatric hospital in a Seattle suburb, but couldn?t go through with it; he wound up pulling a knife on staffers. Also that he had something bigger in mind. Furrow?s red van, purchased Saturday, was filled with ammunition, bulletproof vests, explosives and freeze-dried food. Asked about that, L.A. police Chief Bernard Parks let down his guard a bit. "We are pleased," he told reporters, "that he did not carry out a more spectacular plan." Or insist on a more dramatic ending...
...their best (which, until the iMac, hasn't been all that often), Apple products dazzle by giving us what we didn't know we wanted but suddenly can't live without. This fall we'll learn whether America's been yearning for a blueberry laptop built of bulletproof polycarbonate plastic (to make it, Ive explains, "rugged, robust, structural") and co-molded rubber (to make it "compliant, yielding, human"). And a little foldout handle. And a sleep light that throbs like a heartbeat. And a sleek, round charger whose cord rolls up like...
...lining. Has Asia's crisis laid the foundation for sounder economic growth in the future? The answer is a definite maybe. The crisis has curbed some of the worst abuses of crony capitalism, and it has tempered the dangerous belief that "Asian values" somehow made the region's economies bulletproof. The crisis has also probably done some good by softening free-market fundamentalism: countries are less likely to be pressured into throwing their capital markets open to the world before their financial markets are ready, and Washington is less likely to view the main purpose of economic diplomacy as making...
...brother who said that her boyfriend had called him and told him to tell her "I'm on the way over to the house to shoot it up." A second call was made in which her boyfriend stated "I'm in Somerville, I have my gun and a bulletproof vest." He had been issued a restraining order one day earlier...
...repeat after me: No stock is bulletproof. Not GE. Not Big Blue. Not Ma Bell. Not [your company here]. Some are less vulnerable. But shifting consumer tastes and new technologies can devastate any company any time. No one understands that better than highly paid executives--unless it's the financial firms that advise them...