Word: gearing
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...coast of California, President George W. Bush landed in flying gear on the deck of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln--which sported a banner reading MISSION ACCOMPLISHED--and said, "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended." The war, said Bush, had been carried out "with a combination of precision and speed and boldness the enemy did not expect, and the world had not seen before...
Pentagon officials were so certain before Gulf War II that the Iraqis had outfitted their forces with chemical weapons that U.S. soldiers storming toward Baghdad wore their hot, heavy chemical weapons gear, just in case. But a captain in Iraq's Special Security Organization, the agency that was responsible for, among other things, the security of weapons sites, says no such arms were available. "Trust me," he says, his eyes narrowed, as he sits in a back-alley teahouse in Tikrit, "if we had them, we would have used them, especially in the battle for the airport. We wanted them...
...throw good study breaks, you need to make sure you eat, sleep and take care of yourself in our collegiate forest. College is not only about autonomous living, but also about learning how much weight you can carry. Self-sufficiency does not mean taking all the extra group gear or heaping on the extracurriculars. It is about knowing your limits and bearing the weight that you can handle—no more and no less...
Thirty women clad in athletic gear stood in the dorm’s common room, talking, laughing and eating chips and dip as they learned the art of using their bodies—and voices—as defensive weapons...
...SARS epidemic, the city's oft stumbling tourism bureau was running an ad campaign with the unintentionally ironic tag line "Hong Kong: it will take your breath away." Not that there could have been anything that would have inspired tourism then. As overworked medical officials covered in chemical-warfare gear raced to the next hot spot, multinationals were evacuating staff, and international trade fairs were being rescheduled. "It was really scary," recalls Cliff Wallace, managing director of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, which is back to its normal slew of shows...