Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officers were equipped with riot gear, including acid-proof black coveralls, helmets, masks, shields, and a baton...
...repercussions of the '60s at Harvard--the wave of student protests and campus unrest that culminated at University Hall on April 9, 1969--are so tangible as Mass. Hall's locked doors or the post-1960s riot-proof dorms like Canaday Hall...
...experts and Democrats respond, the report is sparking political fallout that imperils U.S. relations with China. Partisans in Washington have seized on the allegations to fight another election-time round of "who lost China." Beijing has denied all the charges strenuously, and its hard-liners wave the report as proof of hostility from a superpower out to "contain" a rising China. Both countries threaten to disrupt the delicate balancing act that keeps Sino-American relations from spinning out of control. Nobody wants a new cold war, but overheated emotions could provoke a self-fulfilling prophecy...
...place is a more likely target for Chinese missiles than Taiwan, which Beijing insists is still its own. Recent discussions between Japan, Taiwan and the U.S. about an antimissile defense network in eastern Asia have infuriated Beijing. Even though such a shield is decades away, a "missile-proof" Taiwan would surely continue--and flaunt--its independence, possibly triggering Asia's next...
...City's Avery Fisher Hall, a four-encore lovefest at which he sang art songs by Britten, Schubert and Ravel so gorgeously that the audience was reduced to frenzied foot-stomping; or the fact that in November he will record Handel's Rinaldo with Cecilia Bartoli. It is all proof positive that the ex-tenor with the shaky top has definitely found his other voice...