Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, between TV appearances and clothes-shopping expeditions, Whitestone receives a guest. Dressed in a T shirt and a polka-dot vest and pants, she is an enthusiastic and fluent conversation partner. She readily acknowledges not being part of Deaf culture -- "I don't know it very well. I have seen it" -- and tends to refer even to small d deaf as "them...
...within days. "That's the main stress" Seattle Detective Nathan Janes says, "like the fact that the violent criminal doesn't even go to jail." He recalls a thug who attacked a fellow officer a few years ago, wrestled his gun away, jammed it under the officer's bulletproof vest and tried to fire. "He wanted to kill him, but the cop got his hand in between the hammer and the firing pin," Janes says. "I took this guy to jail, and he was joking that he'd do it again if he got the chance. Anyway, 18 months later...
...what it may be worth, Dr. John Bayard Britton's killer did not penetrate his homemade bulletproof vest...
...Britton, 69, was a man of modest means. When he replaced the murdered Dr. David Gunn as a circuit-riding doctor for several abortion clinics in northern Florida, he realized he needed a vest. But instead of buying, he wore one constructed of manufacturer's scraps. Sometimes he worried that it was too short. "If they get me in the liver, that's pretty tough to patch," he told a reporter last February. Apparently he assumed that his assailant, aiming from a prudent distance in hopes of a clean getaway, would go for the largest target, the torso...
None of which convinced Britton to remove his vest. But then he was never an easygoing sort. According to a profile in the February issue of GQ magazine, he facilitated abortions as early as the late 1960s, on principle. But by the 1980s, he was also doing them for the money: as many as 32 a day at $50 each. He had lost a hospital job in 1978 after clashing with his colleagues, and his professional reputation suffered three years later when he was put on two years' probation for improper prescription of narcotics. He could be compassionate and conscientious...