Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outside the Houston Astrodome. ACT UP and Queer Nation have been booking hotel rooms and preparing for mass arrests. The protesters do not plan to apply for any permits, since that would reduce the opportunities for havoc. Houston police < are armed to the teeth with the latest in riot gear...
...middle class. He has been sighted in a Frederick, Md., JCPenney store buying socks and recorded in New Hampshire's political precincts slanging from the stump about frogs without wings and liberals jumping on an unspecified part of his anatomy. Last week he uncovered a cache of supermarket checkout gear at the Orlando convention of the National Grocers Association. The pampered and protected President was dazzled. Supermarket habitues have been using the stuff for more than a decade...
Perez was able to return to his office a few hours later. Most of the armed forces had remained loyal, and air force F-16 jets strafed rebel positions, blocking their movements and disrupting their communications. The coup leader, Lieut. Colonel Hugo Chavez Frias, 37, dressed in combat gear and a red paratrooper's beret, turned himself in 12 hours after the shooting began, but warned that the military might find "another occasion." More than 1,200 rebel soldiers surrendered, including 136 officers. Officials said as many as 7,000 of the 73,000 troops in the armed forces...
Despite such doubts, Olympic boosters are in high gear. Albertville has printed glossy tourist brochures in four languages. Ski resorts are blanketed with garish billboards promoting Coca-Cola's Olympic sponsorship. Farmers' co- ops have stocked up on pine-tree honey in anticipation of record sales. Luxury hotels are booked solid with wealthy businessmen on promotional junkets. And in Albertville's Hall of Ice ("Don't call it a skating rink!"), volunteer tour guide Andre Cabot explains, "There's a grandeur to the Olympics. When it's all over, we'll say, 'How did we do it?' " A little Savoie...
That was five years ago -- an eternity in terms of computer development. Now fast, efficient spell checkers have become standard gear for the well-equipped student -- and for word-game addicts who like to cheat at crosswords or Scrabble. The devices have been joined by a silicon-based library of hand-held reference tools, including electronic thesauruses, translators, travel guides, desk encyclopedias and Bibles (King James, Revised Standard or New International...