Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rioting in Port-au-Prince appeared to be quelled by midday. The streets filled with police, troops in battle gear and the Volunteers for National Security militia...
...when Harvard shifts into league gear for good--wrapping up the season with 11 Ivy games starting January 31--it can be sure of one thing...
Coming off the dramatic 66-63 win over favored Dartmouth last Saturday, the 8-4 Crimson have a full week to gear up for Penn and Princeton, who will make their annual visits to Briggs Athletic Center this weekend...
...entire season of duds, however, would have been offset by The Mission. The hour-long tale, directed by Spielberg himself, followed a World War II bomber crew on its "bad luck" 23rd mission. The plane's landing gear is knocked out in a dogfight, and a young gunner finds himself trapped inside a turret in the plane's belly. The scenes inside the aircraft had the claustrophobic intensity of Das Boot; the crew members were credibly scared and human; and the suspense built as relentlessly as in Jaws. Despite a fanciful and unsatisfying climax, the show was a small masterpiece...
...type of cancer, you need a different combination," suggests Dr. Jordan Gutterman, of Houston's M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute. IL-2 may also prove useful in combination with standard chemotherapy or as a follow-up to surgery. Stenzel theorized that after such traditional treatments, IL-2 could "gear up the patient's own cells to scavenge any remaining tumor cells...