Word: maces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...police got a raise, educational benefits and allocations for new guns, radios and other equipment, like the pepper mace now carried by all patrol officers. The department also had its facilities improved, including new showers...
...government will respect the past, that it needs to be remembered in order to remind South Africans of their long and bitter road to democracy, this deference has not been extended to certain symbolic trappings of the old order. At the opening of Parliament last week, a ceremonial golden mace embellished with a frieze of circled ox wagons -- symbolic of the struggle of Afrikaner nationalists -- was conspicuously absent. An official muttered something about "a technical problem," though others think it will not be long before the mace, along with other totems of the old order (perhaps the hallway statues...
...struggle, both the student who allegedly threw the beer and the trooper were sprayed with the officer's mace, police and students said...
...unclear whether the student or trooper reached for the mace or whether the canister discharged by accident...
...with many new advice industries, this one has its amateurs. One "expert" suggested that employees learn aikido; another persuaded a client to arm every employee with a can of Mace. Another told workers to keep their doors open at a 45 degrees angle so as to deflect bullets. In one case an investigator hired by a company to follow an employee ended up attaching a tracking bug to the person's car, and in another case security consultants simply broke the law by checking a worker's arrest record in a state that allows employers to verify only convictions...