Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Accordingly, the fashion magazines are dictating a transition from heavy winter gear to the light ensembles of spring...
After its exciting come-from-behind victoryover Ivy foe Penn, the Crimson had to gear itselfup for a battle against No. 2 Duke (6-0, 2-0 ACC)on Saturday...
Vannevar Bush is an unlikely cyberculture hero. After all, he was F.D.R.'s World War II science czar, organized the Manhattan Project and helped create the postwar military-industrial-university complex. But the onetime professor at M.I.T.--where he built a massive, gear-driven analog computer called the differential analyzer--was also a prophet. In 1945, dismayed by the wartime info overload, he proposed a desktop machine, the "memex," that would display text and pictures (from a microfilm library) at the press of a button. Presciently, Bush envisioned users of his proto-PC following trails of knowledge along storable hypertext...
...would say one of their strengths offensively is that you don't know who their big shooters are," Springer said. "When a team plays us, they'll gear up for our first line, but you have to stay so focused on Brown's lineup because they know they all need to produce in order for them to be successful...
There was speculation that the Hutus deliberately targeted the expeditioners in an effort to cut Uganda's burgeoning income from tourism. But the real explanation may be more mundane. "They took a lot of very good gear, rain jackets, boots, backpacks," says a Nairobi diplomat. "These guys were wearing old jeans and T shirts. They were very happy, very excited with what they got." Gorilla-watching expeditions to remote preserves were once limited to the likes of Dian Fossey, the American researcher who lived for 18 years in the Rwandan forests before her murder in 1985. But adventure-holiday companies...