Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wednesday alone, more than 400 people showed up to help sort and pack donations. "We're taking all kinds of things," said Tim Baker, 45, a senior official with Feed the Children who supervised the frantic loading and unloading of supplies. "At one point they needed rain gear and flashlight batteries. At another point all they wanted was aspirin and cold drinks." He estimates that in a 12-hour period on Wednesday, his volunteers, all of whom showed up that day, moved 100 pickup loads of supplies to the disaster area. People approached from all sides, handing him checks...
Whether the Michigan Militia's activities are quite this innocent is arguable. While dressing in camouflage gear and holding training retreats and rallies may be their main pursuits, it is clear that the members, along with those in similar groups throughout the country, nurture a profound paranoia about the Federal Government even as they express their deepest patriotism. Bureaucrats, militia members believe, are responsible for gun-control laws, like the 1994 Brady law and assault-weapons ban. The militias especially blame the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for the movement's twin tragedies: the deaths...
...seen frustrated production afterfrustrated production," Rouse said. "How many moredo we have to watch before we learn our lesson,before we re-gear the value system of theorganization to promote good mainstage shows...
...communist North. The fall of Danang late in the month produced scenes of horror that appeared to foreshadow what might happen later in Saigon: panic-maddened South Vietnamese soldiers trampling women and children to get aboard the last American 727 to fly out; desperate soldiers clinging to the landing gear of that plane only to fall off into the South China Sea or be crushed against the undercarriage...
Randy and Evie are that movie staple, complete opposites who just have to fall for each other. Evie is rich; Randy is poor. Evie drives a Range Rover; Randy checks the tires. Randy hits the road in her garage mechanic gear, while Evie obviously has a charge account at the Gap. Randy is failing out of school and ostracized as a "diesel dyke." Evie is popular, college-bound, and, until she meets Randy, straight. Although a series of scripted "coincidences" throw them together, we never really understand why Evie is so drawn to Randy. Evie starts out ignorant...