Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sons back a grade so that "they will be bigger when they try out for the high school team." And on one occasion, after a season of repeated losses, a coach received so many threatening phone calls before an upcoming game that he was forced to wear a bulletproof vest to the stadium...
Capitalism has never been thought of as an Olympic sport before, so it is a little startling to look up and find that the flag under which the Games will be conducted all over Southern California next summer is the vest from a three-piece suit. In the most remarkable private business deal in the history of free enterprise, patriotism is seeing nationalism, and raising the bet outrageously. "It is akin to patriotism," says Dan Greenwood, a committeeman in the Olympic company, "but a patriotism of businessmen." Commercialism is not a bad word either, though some may disagree...
...Medivias has because such a vest enterprise in our society that anybody who is intruded in the American economy today and in American Cultural life today has to pay some attention to the development, of medicine," he says...
...office of Law School professor Arthur Miller looks crowded and seems hectic. As he signs a stack of letters behind a desk covered with files, his secretary tells him his vest is being tailored in New York for "Good Morning, America" and that Channel 5 wants to know what his segment for their newscast that night is about. One of two nearby assistants comments that this week's episode of the nationally syndicated "Miller's Court" looks especially good. Commenting on his contributions to several television programs, Miller says "I have to avoid being captured by the medium...
...general. Inside the terminal, the passenger lobby was closed. Outside, on the tarmac, a phalanx of soldiers armed with M-16 rifles waited as China Airlines Flight 811 taxied toward Gate 8. By then, Aquino's ebullience had vanished. Dressed in a white safari suit and a bulletproof vest that he had put on just before landing, Aquino waited calmly as three soldiers in khaki uniforms entered the plane. He was aware of the threat of General Fabian Ver, the armed forces chief of staff, to send him "back on the same plane he arrived...