Word: equipping
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...equip his flock psychologically for the battles to come, Koresh reportedly played and replayed videos of his favorite movies about the Vietnam War: Platoon, Full Metal Jacket and Hamburger Hill. His followers prepared themselves physically with weight training, military-style drills and obstacle-course runs. To acquaint them with the experience of famine, their vegetarian diet was strictly rationed. Daily life was a harsh mix of work and Bible study. Men labored at construction around the compound, while modestly dressed women did household chores and schooled the children, who were rarely taken off the grounds. Television was forbidden, and children...
...dreamt of in even the maddest consumer's philosophy: buggy whips and barbering aids, covered wagons and canaries, tires and trousseaux, countless doodads that seemed unnecessary until they popped up on the page. From the Sears catalog, known affectionately as the "big book," customers could order everything necessary to equip a house: furniture, appliances, rugs, cooking and eating utensils and paint. Between 1908 and 1937, they could also order the house itself. All told, Sears sold 100,000 prefabricated models, and most of them are still standing and occupied today. Some of the items advertised in the early years seem...
...Security Council, is a proposal that various national armies create rapid-deployment units that could serve under the U.N. flag when needed. The Secretary-General hopes that such forces could be dispatched within days after a crisis erupts, rather than the several months it now takes to assemble and equip peacekeeping units. "It would be a complete change," he says. "If I could say I will send troops in the next three days, this would have an impact completely different from saying I will have troops in the next three months...
...government would have to pay to administerthe program; to feed, equip and house volunteers;and to provide the money for college that Clintonsaid would be included in such a program...
...very likely that we will equip the houses with a card key system over a relatively short period of time. By that I mean a few years," Jewett said yesterday...