Word: gearing
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...Walker, two former record-company talent spotters, NWA sells T shirts and bibs stenciled with sayings like MAMA AIN'T RAISIN' NO FOOL!; mittens with LOVE and HATE knitted on the knuckles; and anthemic punk and hip-hop CDs, rerecorded lullaby style. McLaren launched NWA in 2001, designing gear "that me and my mates would wear, if we wore bibs and body vests." After some initial design errors - he soon discovered that CRACK BABY T shirts weren't so popular - McLaren perfected his sloganeering with declarations like IT'S GONNA END IN TEARS. The formula seems to be working: Stella...
...already in play. Led by Penn (0-5), the Ivy League has combined to open the year 0-16 through yesterday….Defending Ivy champion Princeton (0-2) opened its season with a pair of one-run losses to Richmond last weekend, but kicks its schedule into high gear with 10 games in 10 days over its Southern spring break swing beginning this afternoon at William and Mary….Defending Red Rolfe division champ Dartmouth won’t open its season until March 17 after a pair of games against Lafayette scheduled for last weekend were cancelled...
After knocking the ice off its gear with a regatta in Charleston last weekend, the No. 10 Crimson finished third in a competitive six-team field on Saturday at the Brown Team Race Invitational...
...deployed overseas or who have not attended monthly drills in about a year. The shortfall has been made up by sending qualified reservists overseas more often. Civil-affairs and psyops units in Iraq have been short of soldiers who speak the local language and of proper weapons and gear for protection in combat zones, after-action reports say. One filed by a civil-affairs battalion commander last spring complained that his unit was sent into Iraq "criminally underequipped...
...retro price ($1.69; $1.10 extra for fries), and let the red pleather diner booths and bare lightbulbs awaken your nostalgia. By day, you can catch “All My Children” and your other favorite soaps on the three televisions along with locals decked out in goth gear. A mural dedicated to poet Charles Bukowski—who wrote the script for the 1987 flick Barfly—features a red typewriter with a single line: “I am drinking beer.” You should...