Word: geared
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...coast of California, President George W. Bush landed in flying gear on the deck of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln--which sported a banner reading MISSION ACCOMPLISHED--and said, "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended." The war, said Bush, had been carried out "with a combination of precision and speed and boldness the enemy did not expect, and the world had not seen before...
...throw good study breaks, you need to make sure you eat, sleep and take care of yourself in our collegiate forest. College is not only about autonomous living, but also about learning how much weight you can carry. Self-sufficiency does not mean taking all the extra group gear or heaping on the extracurriculars. It is about knowing your limits and bearing the weight that you can handle—no more and no less...
Thirty women clad in athletic gear stood in the dorm’s common room, talking, laughing and eating chips and dip as they learned the art of using their bodies—and voices—as defensive weapons...
...American as Rin Tin Tin.) It was a moment of witchy aftershocks from the '60s, when the energies of liberation had moved on to less wholesome destinations. Instead of pot, cocaine; instead of Joan Baez, Patty Hearst. Newton plunged into this atmosphere with pictures of deluxe women in bondage gear and lesbian lip locks. They pinned men to the ground, wrestled each other and glared at us from couches in the best hotels, sometimes baring their breasts and (implicitly) their fangs...
...SARS epidemic, the city's oft stumbling tourism bureau was running an ad campaign with the unintentionally ironic tag line "Hong Kong: it will take your breath away." Not that there could have been anything that would have inspired tourism then. As overworked medical officials covered in chemical-warfare gear raced to the next hot spot, multinationals were evacuating staff, and international trade fairs were being rescheduled. "It was really scary," recalls Cliff Wallace, managing director of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, which is back to its normal slew of shows...