Word: gearing
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...uneven new book, “Let My People Go Surfing,” Yvon Chouinard proudly boasts that the outdoor gear company he founded, Patagonia, has managed to “challenge convention wisdom and present a new style of responsible business.” Unlike the stereotypical evil business, Patagonia has managed to do “good things and make a profit without losing its soul,” Chouinard writes. This prophet of responsible capitalism promises to explain how he broke the rules and won.And the lessons are there. For instance, Chouinard stresses the importance...
...odds on achieving a deal fluctuated all day, Rice's stubborn side kicked into high gear. "I'm not going to leave here until we get an agreement," she told an aide. She decided to delay her departure for Asia and return to Jerusalem after paying a condolence call on Jordan's King Abdullah in response to the Amman terror attacks...
...ever been to a high school wrestling meet knows the ways of capitalizing on disordered chaos and turning it into a Salvation Army give-away for sweatpants and stuff. In other words, wrestling dudes may have been suspicious characters, but they were always good at bogarting free gear. First you “check someone’s oil,” then you steal his pants. Only the latter part of this behavior should be emulated...
...Mendes's Jarhead, which is based on Anthony Swofford's best-selling memoir of his service in the 1991 Gulf War. There is, however, this important difference between this film and its predecessors: these guys never get to fire a shot. They are all dressed up in stifling combat gear but they have no place to go, except over the next berm (or dune) where they find nothing but more emptiness, more sand, which, if you want to get all fancy and symbolic about it, matches the emptiness inside them...
...year-old boy in Dublin when a man first walked on the moon. It wasn't just any man--it was an American. I thought I already knew something about America from Elvis, the movies and the hip gear sent home by Irish people who crossed the Atlantic. But now American meant something new. It meant having a sense of infinite possibility, doing the things everyone says can't be done. Even this freckle-faced Irish kid could see that America went to the moon not just because it was a scientific milestone--a career move for the human race...