Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...racking sobs of the bereaved that proved unforgettable. AIDS grief has to be rationed, or the tears can become infinite; those quiltgoers had allowed themselves to remember. The sorrow was undercut only by a leather couple I saw under some nearby elms, two fellows in full bondage gear. The stern master lightly flogged his willingly shackled slave with a riding crop. "Oh, just stop," the slave complained. It had been a very long...
...down two American civilian planes last February: THIS IS NOT COJONES; THIS IS COWARDICE. But Albright's bulldog style is not admired nearly as much abroad. When word of her appointment reached a black-tie U.N. dinner, there was no international equivalent of high fives. Could she, muttered colleagues, gear down her confrontational style enough to succeed in the delicate art of nation-to-nation negotiation? French diplomats, who tangled with her over her aggressive campaign to dump U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, were pointedly ordered to speak of her new appointment only in positive terms...
...very surprised in your recent coverage of new electronic and computer gear [TECHNOLOGY BUYER'S GUIDE, Nov. 25] not to read about any of the dozens of technologies that Apple has put in its customers' hands. While I know that you can't list everything, it does make me wonder what other first-rate equipment your evaluation team omitted. And, of course...why? PAYTON FLETCHER Bad Schwalbach, Germany Via E-mail...
...LINE SKATERS who fail to wear wrist guards and elbow pads are 10 times as likely to be injured as those who don safety gear. That makes pads and guards as statistically protective as helmets are for bikers...
With less than a week remaining before Undergraduate Council elections begin, candidates for president and vice president are getting their campaigns into high gear...