Word: shield
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...However, you can bet that an institution that has already survived for over 360 years will probably stick around for a while—and so will that Harvard tattoo you’re considering plastering on your ass. For Joseph K. Cooper ’07, the Veritas shield that adorns his shoulder blade is more than just a way to show off in the locker room and at the beach. “I view tattoos as a way to commemorate things you’re proud of,” says Cooper, who also served...
...scheme that coiled across three continents. The path led through a complex maze, replete' with international intrigue, conflicting claims by governments and shadowy diversions of funds by mysterious middlemen. There were straw companies set up precisely to obscure the paper trail, and private individuals who acted as "cutouts" to shield the government officials directing them. But throughout the maze investigators repeatedly stumbled across the delicate footprints of the CIA, along with the clumsier presence of Lieut. Colonel Oliver North and an old-boy network of his former colleagues on the staff of the National Security Council...
...books bulged so quickly that IBM put a cap on his commissions. In 1962, after five years, he founded EDS with $1,000 in capital as a company to process computerized data for other businesses. EDS quickly found a niche processing medical-insurance forms for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas. In 1968, when Perot took his firm public, its revenues were $7.7 million. He managed to persuade underwriters to float less than 10% of the company's stock for a price that was 118 times earnings. He kept most of the rest of the shares and was deemed...
...frozen in a Macau bank account at Washington's behest. The North Koreans even threatened to raise the stakes: After five days of stonewalling, North Korean delegate Kim Kye Gwan told reporters that in response to Washington's "carrot and stick" approach, the North would adopt a "dialog and shield" approach, adding ominously that by "shield," Pyongyang meant that it would "further improve our deterrent." That was a code word for one thing that no one wants to see: a second, and likely bigger, nuclear test...
...part, the Israeli military is strengthening its border defenses and trying to figure out how to crush a guerrilla enemy that fires rockets from deep underground and uses villages and towns as a combat shield. The Israeli air force is retooling its planes for new, U.S.-made 600-pound 'bunker-buster' bombs. Israel also found out that its vaunted Merkava tanks were vulnerable to missile attack, and experts are now experimenting with a new radar device that tracks and shoots incoming projectiles in mid-air. And the Israelis are keeping an eye out for goat-herders and donkeys loaded with...