Word: gearing
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...tired of going with the flow. I want to make a fashion statement at graduation. Gear...
...settle in for a long wait, and watch the real punishment continue: the drib-and-drab sapping of a company that's been sweating buckets for two years under the hot lights of both Washington and Wall Street, and which now has to gear up for years more of the same. "Just because things are going to get harder for the government doesn't mean they get any easier for Microsoft," says Cohen. "This process itself is inflicting significant damage." Bill Gates was the prime beneficiary of the legal paralysis that hobbled IBM in the '80s - he knows...
...Anti-war demonstrators march to the Center for International Affairs building in Cambridge, breaking windows and causing $20,000 in damages. Fifty police officers equipped with riot gear and tear gas sweep the Square to control the disturbance. 20 - Black students from the Pan-African Liberation Committee and other groups take over Mass. Hall, demanding that the University divest from the Gulf Oil Corporation in protest of the company's practices in Angola. Students form picket lines around the building, and the protestors begin a hunger strike. After 153 hours of occupation, the students voluntarily leave...
...with a pacemaker or implantable defibrillator in your chest? Then be wary of therapeutic magnets used to relieve arthritis and muscle aches. A report shows that those popular mattress pads containing magnets can interfere with--and sometimes deactivate--implantable heart-rhythm regulators. You're probably safe with smaller magnetic gear worn on the wrist or foot, as long as it's kept at least 6 in. from your shoulder. That's where the circuitry for the heart devices is housed...
...money. He's there because it's an exciting job that pays extremely well. He doesn't reek with gratitude for being allowed into the league. The player enjoys being part of a team and part of the community--Sprewell last week donated $100,000 for athletic gear for local kids--but does not suffer a coach's presumptions, familiarities or tyrannical moods...