Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both stores gear their merchandise toward the needs of late-night crammers. Stationery supplies and munchies ranging from nacho chips and picante sauce to ice cream and soda make up the great majority of the stock...
...rest. The smugglers they are up against have almost unlimited funds. "They can afford to lease an entire ranch for one drop," says Marion Hambrick of the Drug Enforcement Administration in Houston. They can also buy the best equipment: advanced fiber boats that elude radar, scuba-diving gear, "voice privacy" scrambler radios and single-sideband transmitters, which are hard to intercept, and light planes that are often faster and have better radar than Customs' planes. Firearms too: gun battles between feds and smugglers have erupted all along the Mexican border...
...Angeles. But then life got complicated -- a job, marriage, children -- and Callon gradually let the waves roll by without him. Recently, however, he took up the sport again; on weekends, when he is not riding the Pacific, he may be found in a Hermosa Beach surf shop, buying gear for his three children. Says Callon: "If a week goes by and I don't surf, I feel like I'm missing something...
...league is trying to penetrate cable and pay-TV markets in a half a dozen more European countries. The London visit by the Bears and Cowboys was tailor-made for proselytizing, and the teams were turned into ambassadors for the sport. Players posed for pictures in full protective gear and answered awed questions about their size with a deprecating "265 lbs., but I'm only 6 ft. 4 1/2." The visitors were such outsize and obvious celebrities in London that the Bears' William ("the Refrigerator") Perry, who endorses a local supermarket chain, required his own bobby bodyguard. Even Dallas Coach...
Anderson is a member of the North West Territory Alliance, which accepts women as combatants. So is Dennis Farmer, the curator of a historical museum in Monroe County, Mich., a lieutenant in the 10th Virginia Regiment who has spent some $10,000 on such items as camp gear, uniforms, a musket and a pair of authentic 18th century eyeglass frames. "The Revolutionary War is my favorite time period," he said one hot Saturday at Greenfield Village before a fight with the dreaded British. "As wars go, you can't find a better one that was fought for a clear...