Word: gear
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...GEAR: Gimme cap, skimpy shorts...
...failed, largely because customers did not want to be wedded to one vendor's hardware. Although the Microsoft system will let users mix and match printers, copiers, phones and faxes of competing manufacturers, some customers will be reluctant to dispose of their existing hardware and invest in expensive new gear...
That's now. But George Bracksieck, editor of Rock & Ice magazine in Boulder, estimates that 100,000 new climbers are entering the sport each year. Gear sales and Interior Department figures suggest that 4.1 million people across the nation do some variety of mountaineering each year. Many of the newcomers arrive, wearing Lycra, by way of the local indoor climbing walls. Some won't get far from their cars, but others will sniff the wind blowing from the back country. Accident figures and rescue costs will rise...
With West, this process of celebrity making is shifting into high gear. The message on West's answering machine at Princeton refers those interested in arranging a speaking engagement to a high-powered New York booking agency. Along with Michael Lerner, editor of the liberal Jewish magazine Tikkun, he received a $100,000 advance for a joint book on black-Jewish tensions, an almost unheard-of sum for a scholarly work...
...many of Khalilah's classmates will have to start thinking about that stuff. Many will attend South Boston High School, where more than 200 students clashed in a race riot last Thursday, hitting each other, and Mayor Raymond Flynn, with rocks and chunks of asphalt until police in riot gear forced an end to the fighting...