Word: gears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...armored car and busloads of officers in riot gear helped ring the 48-acre Federal Detention Center outside Oakdale, a town of 7,000 in rural south-central Louisiana...
...cover of the Holy Cross football program, he is clothed in ancient football gear--a leather helmet, a heavy cloth shirt and cloth pants. He is holding a battered ball, the kind Red Grange and his contemporaries used...
...Iran. Both China and Iran deny any such transactions, but intelligence reports leave little doubt that Peking is the source. The suspension of technology sales means that China will not be able to buy legally from the U.S. some of the computers, semiconductor manufacturing equipment and other electronic gear essential to its modernization...
...newsletter to players earlier this month advised: "The outfit of the Compleat Croquet Player includes longjohns, rain gear, mittens, [and] warm boots...
...this month, Iranian speedboats and frigates have attacked six unarmed ships in the gulf, including two Japanese tankers. That stirred Japan into offering modest help to finance the U.S. defensive operations in the international waterway, including some $10 million worth of advanced navigational gear. West Germany too offered indirect support, sending three warships into the Mediterranean to free other NATO vessels for gulf patrols. Britain, France, Italy and the Netherlands already have warships and minesweepers on duty in the gulf -- as does the Soviet Union, which has a dozen ships there and in the Arabian...