Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perot and his advisers have deflected Lamm's repeated requests for their intentions. "I've never seen people play it so close to the vest," Lamm says. "But," he adds, "I've had an epiphany. This guy is testing me." By this calculus Lamm passes Perot's exam by showing he can rally Perotistas and be an effective advocate for reining in entitlement spending and reforming the campaign-finance system. Lamm intends to use his candidacy as a "national teach-in" on those issues...
...appearance at Oxford, Simpson dressed in a black Donna Karan jacket, a white shirt, a gray sweater vest and a gray-and-black-striped Armani tie--creating a faux morning-coat effect that made him look like an extra from Four Weddings and a Funeral. After receiving a warm round of applause from the 1,000 students crammed together on the brown leather benches of the elegant 1871 Union Debating Chamber, Simpson tried a few quips, only to be interrupted by Fiona Maazel, an American at Oxford for her junior year abroad. "You can make your jokes, but this...
...Kragujevac. The man who helped arrange the meeting, a shark-faced lawyer in a purple suit, nods in reassurance, but Lugar stares truculently at two TIME journalists, unsure if we are who we say we are. His jacket stretches tightly across his burly chest, barely hiding a bulletproof vest; he keeps a hand on a briefcase that contains a pistol. He has good reason to take precautions. Since he returned from Bosnia, he has been shot at twice, bashed with an iron bar and slammed with a shovel; he has been repeatedly arrested for petty crimes and is fighting...
...weeks ago I was at this panel discussion listening to someone tell me how to be Asian-American. He was Chinese-American. He had a triangular mohawk. He had a snazzy floral-print vest...
Sometimes when Jan and I are raft-drifting down the languid Orinoco, where the only sound is the mesh lining in Jan's flight vest wicking moisture away from her skin, we'll gaze up into the indigo Venezuelan night and thank the stars for our large, loyal customer base. Without you, there wouldn't be a J. Entitlements--and we'd be just two more lawyers without lives...