Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...race turned sinister as Election Day neared when drive-by shooters fired at Reynolds' leased car. The candidate was slightly injured by flying glass. Some in Reynolds' camp suspected Savage supporters of instigating the attack. Appearing at his victory celebration with his head still bandaged and wearing the bulletproof vest that he has been using for more than a month, Reynolds hailed the outcome as a "repudiation of racial politics...
...Johnson as a high school student. "They're basically snobs. The feeling is, 'If I can afford a $3,000 Chanel suit, it makes me stand out.' Are we going to do away with status? No." For now, however, those status seekers are playing it very close to the vest...
Lewit and Fish shine as the juvenile delinquents. Murph, the ringleader of the two, foreshadows his later behavior when he mocks Gupta, saying to Joey, "We can't leave him here--some nasty boys might come along." Lewit becomes a menacing thug, with his combat boots, Harley vest and belligerent attitude, but he manages to show the source of Murph's problems without over sentimentalizing his character. When Joey complains that he has to get home to his mother, Murph remarks, "At least you have someone waiting...
Tiller, who wears a bulletproof vest to work and checks his car for bombs every morning, has emerged as a hero to the pro-choice movement, refusing to be intimidated by protesters and death threats. To pro-lifers, he is a modern- ^ day Mengele. Says Paula Winter, a "sidewalk counselor" who tries to dissuade patients from entering the clinic: "He kills 10 to 20 babies a week in his 'abortuary' and then puts them into his incinerator and burns them...
...present at all. Gandhi had been campaigning with little protection, a marked contrast to his previous style. His mother's assassination by Sikh bodyguards in 1984, the event that catapulted the former airline pilot into the prime ministership, had highlighted his vulnerability. For years he wore a bulletproof vest and surrounded himself with security so tight that opponents had begun ridiculing...