Word: gearing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first time I saw the Obama gear, I knew it had begun. I do not mean the official campaign paraphernalia. I'm talking about the wares hawked here in Harlem, the black tees sold in sizes up to 5XL, with Barack Obama's head slightly out of proportion. I bought mine on Lenox and 125th--a mustard number with Martin Luther King Jr. and Obama juxtaposed underneath the words ALPHA and OMEGA. That's when I smelled the air and understood that Obama was running not simply to be President but also to be the next head chiseled...
...Ferrari 250 GT Testa Rossa with custom bodywork 2 Company founder Enzo Ferrari, in racing gear, center, at an Italian track in 1921 3 A Ferrari 250 GT with a short wheelbase 4 A 1967 Ferrari 312 Formula One race car 5 The new Ferrari California convertible, which will be officially unveiled at the Paris Auto Show in October 6 A 1961 Ferrari 250 TR 61 Spyder Fantuzzi, owned by Ralph Lauren 7 Actor James Coburn's classic 1961 Ferrari California Spyder sold for $11.4 million...
...boom in international trade following the end of the Cold War, it has flourished anew - particularly in narrow choke points such as Asia's Strait of Malacca and the Gulf of Aden, which links the Red and Arabian seas. Buoyed by fast boats, fearsome weaponry and high-tech communications gear, pirates carried off 263 reported heists in 2007 - 28% of which occurred in the treacherous waters off Nigeria and Somalia, where vast coastlines and feckless transitional governments make for easy marks for plundering pirates. Despite a June U.N. resolution that lets naval allies surveil those waters, ships are warned...
...chances as we usually have.” On the back of last night’s disappointing performance, the Crimson looks to rebound in its first Ivy League game against rival Yale. Coach Clark expressed his hope that the manner of the defeat would kick his team into gear heading into Saturday’s matchup. “I don’t think you can have any greater motivation going into our Ivy League season,” Clark said. “We believe we are a team that’s better than that result...
Martirosov said Goldin “smashed the glass real good”—glass shards were strewn about the car and got stuck in the gear shift, preventing him from shifting gears and driving...