Word: bulletproofing
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...about 12:30 p.m., a heavily armed SWAT team clad in bulletproof gear and helmets entered the building with shields, special entry gear, a battering ram and fiber-optic equipment, which the police used to peak under doors in the hotel. The Boston Police Bomb Squad arrived shortly after 1 p.m., and four Boston ambulances waited outside with lights flashing, including a special tactical response unit with EMTs in bulletproof vests and helmets...
...Bill Clinton, of course, loved to talk about the economy. He finished the job on the deficits that Bush had begun, Alan Greenspan went to bat for him with the bond markets, long-term interest rates flattened, and two terms of bragging and bulletproof prosperity ensued. But toward the end, a huge market bubble formed and burst, just in time for Clinton to skip town and leave Bush to deal with...
...crime is so pervasive that Brazil has become the world's hottest market for private armored vehicles. And for the largest U.S. armorer--O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt, based in Fairfield, Ohio--times are flush. For about $65,000, O'Gara will take your Cadillac and outfit it with bulletproof glass, high-tensile body plastic, a siren and a slew of other security accessories. Since 1996 the firm's Brazilian revenues have surged more than sevenfold, to $14.5 million last year. In November, O'Gara opened a new plant to nearly double output. How solid are the cars? "Nine...
...them angry, poor people enraged at Arroyo's brass-knuckled arrest the previous week of Estrada, their former champion. At dawn on Tuesday, a 40,000-strong mob laid siege to Arroyo's rambling presidential palace, forcing her to scurry from room to room for safety, sometimes donning a bulletproof vest. Was she frightened? "Maybe for a split second," she said...
...coup plotters also underestimated the pig iron beneath the petite 54-year-old President's bulletproof vest. "What doesn't kill you will make you stronger," Arroyo told TIME last week. As the protesters occupied EDSA, Arroyo set up her own war room in the MalacaNang Palace. Tanks, armored personnel carriers and several thousand Elite marines and riot police were brought in to guard the riverside lanes around MalacaNang. They unspooled kilometers of razor wire around the palace; under the venerable trees of its garden marines dug in with .50-caliber machine guns. "Let them come. I'll crush them...