Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are advantages for the President too in ceding the spotlight and letting someone else gear up while you gear down. In his birthday toast, Jordan said, "Mr. President, if you're 53 and you wake up and nothing hurts, then you're dead." Clinton responded, "I'm not dead yet." Indeed, hurting is a way of life for the Clintons. Survival, like their mutual ambition, welds them together in a way that nothing can put asunder...
McGuire, at the moment, is driving from Hollister to another California town, Auburn, where he is planning another BASE jump from a bridge. Riding with him is Adam Fillipino, president of Consolidated Rigging, a company that manufactures parachutes and gear for BASE jumpers. McGuire talks about the leap ahead, about his feelings when he is at the exit point, and how at that moment, looking down at the ground, what goes through his mind is that this is not something a human being should be doing. But that's exactly what makes him take that leap: that sense of overcoming...
...Auburn bridge, which Fillipino has done dozens of times, is about as routine as BASE jumping can be. But Fillipino is a veteran with 450 BASE jumps to his credit. For McGuire, who has just 45, every jump is still a challenge. And at dawn, as he gets his gear ready, stuffing his chute and rig into a backpack so it won't be conspicuous as he climbs the trestles beneath the bridge (jumping from this bridge, as from many other public and private structures, is illegal) he has entered into a tranquil state, as if he were silently preparing...
...police, a force of about 100 drawn from local suburbs, arrived at 4:00 a.m. armed with riot gear. They began by forcing about 200 students from the steps of University Hall, clubbing many in the process...
Furrow's downward spiral entered its final twist last fall. In late October, he took a 12-week leave from his job as a computer-assisted-design engineer at Northwest Gear, a maker of aircraft parts in Everett, Wash. Then he started drinking. One afternoon, in the depths of that bender, he tried to check himself into Fairfax Psychiatric Hospital. Babbling about having stabbed himself a few days before, he also boasted that he had a gun in his car. When an administrator took his keys and warned him that she would have to call the police, Furrow thrust...