Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...giving the V sign after still another long gain. There would be just a quick pan to the number on his back as he lumbered off the field in that tender-kneed way of his, a big, good-looking man, who was virtually undistinguishable under his helmet and football gear. At first, the bar's patrons would cheer just the brief mention of Lynch's name on national TV, but after a few years of such random mentioning by Summerall and Frank Gifford and Howard Cosell, they grew restless. They wondered when Fran would duplicate his two-touchdown feat against...
...million in 1985. The Chicago-based Gingiss International, the nation's largest formal-wear rental chain, did $500 million in tuxedo rentals last year, up 50% from 1981. At New York City's Waldorf- Astoria, 60% of last year's banqueters showed up in formal gear, up from 45% in 1981. That means, according to the hotel, that 195,000 folks showed up at the Waldorf to put on the ritz. "The intensity of private fund-raising dinners, due to Government cutbacks, has increased and thus the increase in black-tie events," explains Waldorf Catering Director Lawrence Harvey...
Both the Harvard men's and women's teams used the race to gear up for next weekends Heptagonals, to be held at New York's Van Cortlandt Park...
...MBTA official said yesterday that while smoking gear boxes cause delays occasionally, fires with open flames are "much more rare...
Fire officials gave the station the all clear within half an hour, but because the train's gear box was destroyed, the four-car train could not be removed for an hour...