Word: gear
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last week the government reported that Americans were buying existing homes at an annual rate of 4.21 million units in November, the fastest pace ever. Now Clinton is about to get a windfall: 1994 is likely to be the year in which the reluctant recovery finally kicks into gear. When TIME gathered six leading economists to assess the 1994 outlook, there was not a Cassandra among them: they foresaw the strongest U.S. growth since the late 1980s combined with continued low inflation and gradually falling unemployment. "I describe my forecast as 'the best of all possible worlds,' " said a buoyant...
...Friday, after a long morning of travel, the team arrived at the Michigan State just one hour before the beginning of the meet. Things began slowly, but the team kicked into high gear with a 1-2 finish in the 200-yard breaststroke by co-captain Richard Ou and freshman Dave Schwartz...
After training with the club for at least two months, members have the option to spar with each other. Before sparring, members must don so much protective gear that "you could fall down a flight of stairs and not hurt yourself too bad," Codrington says. Coach Rawson is careful to match up only fighters of similar size and skill, and closely regulates bouts. And while sparring can get intense, it never gets out of hand. Brann notes that the club does not train its members "to be aggressive and hurt people." This view is echoed by Codrington, who says that...
Maybe it's the November ratings "sweeps"; maybe a lunar convergence of high-profile sex-and-crime stories. Whatever the reason, the tabloid shows have been in high gear lately. Charges of child molestation against Michael Jackson, along with his self-proclaimed addiction problem, have sent reporters scurrying across Europe in search of the missing superstar. When River Phoenix died, Hard Copy was the first to tell the world (through an unnamed hospital employee) that the death was probably the result of a drug overdose. John Bobbitt, owner of perhaps the most famous sex organ in America, told his story...
...this isn't your favorite Combat Zone S&M shop, although the place certainly could evoke images of such--it's Hubba Hubba, your friendly neighborhood bondage store. An unabashed purveyor of classic, as well as cutting-edge, sexual fantasy gear, Hubba Hubba prides itself in helping people "enrich their social and sexual lives...