Word: gearing
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December is fast-approaching, and students who stored their winter gear over the summer may find this holiday season a bit colder than usual. A large number of Kirkland House students—about two dozen, according to two Kirkland House seniors who have volunteered to gather complaints—are still without the clothing, furniture, and dorm paraphernalia that the Watertown-based company Collegeboxes promised to deliver to their doors in September. Three months later, students have had to complain repeatedly to Collegeboxes and threaten legal action against the company, and only now have they begun to recover?...
...minute television ad for Microsoft’s latest video game, “Gears of War,” started a revolution in gamer culture?Touted by many as the pivotal “killer application” of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console leading into the Christmas rush—just as the wildly popular shoot-em-up “Halo” was the game that drove sales of the original Xbox—“Gears” is a violent tactical shooter, with photorealistic graphics and elegant gameplay.But you?...
...against the Ivy League powerhouses. Last year’s collapse showed that a strong start in non-conference play is no guarantor of Ivy League success.What began as a promising 2005-06 season for Harvard turned into a nightmare just as the Ivy League season kicked into high gear. After beginning the season 5-0 in non-league play with quality wins over Holy Cross and Vermont, validating its preseason No. 2 ranking, and improving its record to 10-5 after a home-and-home sweep of Dartmouth, the Crimson began to veer off course when it suffered...
...While local businesses gear up for the fight, Vietnam's government will have to move fast to bring its legal system and infrastructure up to speed if the country hopes to attract more multinationals. Running a factory in Vietnam can be a frustrating proposition. Electricity production is barely meeting demand, which is growing at 15% per year. Roads and ports are increasingly congested. Nike Vietnam's general manager Amanda Tucker says the company's containers sometimes sit on the dock for 24 hours before shipping out. Because Vietnam has no deep-water port to handle the new larger "super-container...
...fact, the education Harvard has been offering its undergraduates in the past decades has made them less likely to be wearing cargoes and riot gear and more likely to be unshaven and tear-gassed during a protest. Terrorism is a disease, and general education is a Typhoid Mary—don’t let it cough all over your patriotism. God bless America...