Word: vesting
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...Vest Point. In Port Washington, Wis., when John Jushka sent out his Irish setter on the first day of its training as a retriever, the dog came back with a wallet containing...
...lean, balding Englishman with a "British Cake and Oil Mills Ltd." tag on his vest pocket takes a sip of coffee and smiles. "Now we've been getting along fine with our trade unions for years. If a man wants to join a union, and it's in his interest to do so, we let him go right ahead. A "Right to Work" law would be absurd in Britain." A Californian manufacturer behind him overhears, turns around, and the pair are soon in eager debate over their coffee cups...
...Armored vest protects against small, low-velocity fragments, is lighter than Korean war armor, better designed for protection at vital throat areas...
...even the inflated art market or the evening's glamour prepared the assembled company for the price fetched by Cézanne's Boy in Red Vest. After the last significant lift of an eyebrow and meaningful tug at a vest. Carstairs Gallery's Keller had outbid all others by offering a fabulous $616,000. It was the highest price ever paid at auction for any painting (previous auction high: $360,000 paid for Thomas Gainsborough's Harvest Wagon in Manhattan...
...Walston is superbly funny as the Ivy-League Mephistopheles. Dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit and buttoned-down shirt, tie, coat, and vest, he looks amazingly like a Yalie. And it must be somewhat refreshing to have our suspicions confirmed after all these years that Daddy is a Yale...