Word: vesting
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...investigating that very fiasco. The specifics are mostly dry accounting stuff, and are being held pretty close to the agency's vest at this point - but the Wall Street Journal reports that "commission staff are investigating Lucent's procedures for booking sales, in particular its use of 'nonrecurring credits,' or one-time discounts, given to customers, as well as Lucent's accounting treatment of software-licensing agreements...
...Clapp, 29, who started on the road to fame by sending MTV a video in which he had himself gassed with pepper spray and shot with a Taser. (He and MTV agreed not to air a segment of the video in which he put on a bulletproof vest and shot himself.) And if you're nonplussed--and maybe a tad defensive about being nonplussed ("But I'm cool! I liked Beavis and Butt-Head!")--Knoxville is doing his job. The show is succeeding well enough without you to capture more than 2 million young viewers a week...
...culminates in officer-to-officer combat. HUPD has each officer suit up in a facemask, neck protector and bullet-proof vest...
...Rolls-Royce and a Jaguar were parked in the driveway. Irwin Hentschel was moved to tears and was perhaps more inspired than usual to say goodbye to her clan (which includes seven children) and board an SUV for a weekly nocturnal mission that sometimes means wearing a bulletproof vest. Her driver transported her across the universe--a 30-minute trip--to the domain of Crips and Bloods, crackheads and vast tabletop acres of bottom-rung folk who are none of the above...
Norsigien, a representative of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, said that she knew a family doctor in New Mexico who had to wear a bulletproof vest to work every day because he performed abortions and feared for his life...