Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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John C. Salvi III, the student hairdresser who was charged in the Dec. 30 shootings at two Massachusetts abortion clinics, pleaded innocent to state charges of two counts of first-degree murder and five counts of assault with intent to murder. Wearing a bulletproof vest, the unshaven Salvi appeared in the heavily guarded courtroom in Norfolk County, Va. to enter his plea...
...open his Berretta pistol to make sure it is loaded. Pointing a remote control toward a video screen on the garage wall, he flips through eight channels, each offering a different camera view of the outside grounds. As the garage's metal door slides open, he tucks a bulletproof vest between his body and the truck window and steps on the gas. "Once I start moving, a sniper can't get a good shot at me," he says with a defiant grin. "It would take a cruise missile...
...Huntsville, Alabama, burst onto the national scene with the announcement of a new product line: two novel types of exploding bullets, both designed to kill on impact with thousands of razor-sharp fragments. One type, the company's chief executive claimed, was specially built to pierce police bulletproof vests. Following a public uproar, Signature said it would hold off producing the vest-piercing bullet as a "responsible" gesture. That left many industry experts wondering whether the super "Rhino" ammunition was ever meant to shatter anything more than the firm's obscurity...
...minutes before my economics section was scheduled to end, a boy in the back row raised a white-gloved hand and asked to be excused early. He had to go stand in front of the Science Center and sing "Billie Jean," dressed in tuxedo pants, a mauve vest, a long blonde wing, and, of course, the glove...
...things he loved: the forced intimacy of Manhattan foot traffic, a beach house at midnight, the fidelity in a cocker spaniel's tilted glance, the tenseness in a young wife's posture, the sweet-and-sour scents of rosemary and rue, the pulse of lust beneath a Republican vest...