Word: geared
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...Track him down the old-fashioned way, paying off locals until he's just around the corner, then surround him, strap on the night-vision gear, take out the guards and do him in. Problem: in the tribal lands of Pakistan, he's a hero, and the U.S. has few agents who can blend in among the people...
EQUIPMENT RUNNING GEAR...
...Subsequent ventures included an import business dealing in Japanese-made electric generators and one that, in 1982, furnished India with push-button phones (until then rotary dial was the norm). By the early 1990s, Mittal was making fax machines, cordless phones and other telecom gear...
...Australia had the impossible task of warning citizens about the danger while urging them to live normally. German authorities debated how to improve security at streetside Christmas markets, fearing an attack similar to one foiled in Strasbourg last year; rather than spook people with armed police in riot gear, officials in Cologne decided to train plainclothesmen to guard the city's famous holiday market. Officials were especially jittery at the NATO summit in Prague, after two attempts to derail commuter trains ahead of the meeting. The unknown saboteurs were amateurish - they parked a car on the tracks in one instance...
...death. Even after 26 years in the job, Tony Collis still gets an adrenaline jolt when the bell begins to ring in central London's Manchester Square Fire Station. But when the familiar clanging began at 9 a.m. last Friday, Collis felt only emptiness. Instead of running for the gear and piling into their red fire engines, Collis and his colleagues strolled somberly to the front of the ornate 19th century red-brick building and, for the second time in a week, formed a picket line. They had begun the first strike in a feisty, even jaunty frame of mind...