Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sweatshirt buying going on. Pointing to a pile near the front of the store, Sullivan explains, "With students, buying Harvard apparel is a tell-tale sign that you're a freshman. They buy everything, but like the tourists, they most often purchase these." Apparently, most consumers choose the Gear version over its Champion counterparts. "They're cheaper, and they're of better quality," David says. And they look exactly the same. (Well, almost.) The most popular size? XX-large, for the shopper who just can't get enough HARVARD...
...send the whole economy tumbling, and there are perturbations all over the place. Brazil is just hanging on, which means so is the rest of Latin America. Europe, which suffers from high unemployment, is slowing. And Asia's comeback is predicated on Japan's getting its troubled economy into gear...
...restricted to the post for most of their time in Bosnia. The store features souvenir mugs, Beanie Babies, T shirts, electronics, CDs--its best-selling item--and video rentals. Because the troops at Eagle Base are often clad in their "battle rattle"--helmets, flak jackets and other gear--the new store boasts 8-ft.-wide aisles so soldiers turning around don't find themselves staring down the barrel of a colleague's M-16. The U.S. has set no deadline for the 6,900 U.S. troops in Bosnia to come home, although their numbers continue to decline from a peak...
...precise pruning of the synths and vocal samples midway, and this collage effect both reinvigorates old samples (Gwen McCrae's voice on "Feeling for You") and draws you into new songs ("La Mouche"). It's not all uptempo, though. Cassius's clean, even sparse, beats shift into low gear occasionally in tunes like "Nulife". No pre-millennial tension in 1999: the French have made fun in dance music respectable again. This last tango in Paris has legs...
...February 26, American Eagle Flight 3226 spirited me away from Harvard. Wing-mounted prop engines labored hard and the SAAB 340B cabin vibrated hypnotically. I dosed off thinking-next stop, Santa Barbara, California. Soon, the hydraulic whirring of the landing gear woke me up and down we sailed, moving closer to the breaking waves and snaking coastline...