Word: bulletproof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...From the moment of the first report of gunshots at Columbine, SWAT-team members raced in from every direction, some without their equipment, some in jeans and T shirts, just trying to get there quickly. They had only two Plexiglas ballistic shields among them. As Manwaring dressed in his bulletproof gear, he says, he asked several kids to draw on notebook paper whatever they could remember of the layout of the sprawling, 250,000-sq.-ft. school. But the kids were so upset that they were not even sure which way was north...
...early '90s. Most of these programs involve zero tolerance for threats or violence, require conflict resolution among colleagues and offer tips on what workers should do if they're threatened or attacked. Meanwhile, at gas stations and other retail businesses, such security measures as silent alarms, buzzer locks and bulletproof glass have contributed to a 46% drop in robbery homicides over the past five years...
...avert devolving into a sub-Nicholson Baker riff, we can shift into lamentation. Sad, sad, sad: New is better; pop culture is disposable and laughs at its ancestors; masturbatory fashionistas dictate and bulletproof their fopaganda. Where can we access the past, without fear of reprisal or dismissal? Ad firms parallel the AI race for the perfect chess computer, in their appropriation of our precious individuality and irony, engineering the perfect corporate android to convince us to match the image in the mirror--the billboard, the TV screen--the one now and forever, until the next profit margin rolls around...
...were Kenny, I'd wear a bulletproof vest for the next couple of days. Granted, that won't protect him from the back pages of the tabloids, "Vinny from Queens," or any other unemployed Mets fan that will undoubtedly call for his head on WFAN every day until he's gone...
...last week that they would be receptive to emergency measures--a plan that would allow Yeltsin to postpone elections and engineer a less than democratic transition. Hints of that fear were on display last week, as police tightened security around government buildings, airports and railway stations. Patrols clad in bulletproof vests showed up in the Moscow subway, and armor rolled through Moscow's streets for the first time since the end of the Chechen war in 1996. Dagestan's war--being fought more than 1,000 miles away from Moscow--was finally coming home...