Word: gears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shirts is not always a sign of disaffection. On the contrary, many of the young people who mimic Western ways are the children of Soviet officials who buy Western clothes abroad or at state stores reserved for the elite. The less privileged must buy or cadge their status gear from Western tourists. The most prized items in any Soviet youngster's wardrobe, Adidas sneakers, are manufactured in Moscow under license from the West German footwear firm. The Voskhod factory has been turning out a million pairs of green, yellow and purple sneakers a year, scarcely meeting the demand even...
Bracelets made of cardboard hardly sound like stepping-out gear, but in California they are fast becoming fashionable. Recession Ware bracelets, offered in novelty shops for $2.50 each, are the latest gimmick from master Marketer Stephen Askin, 43, of Los Angeles. During the Iranian hostage crisis, Askin sold Ayatullah Dartboards. More recently he has developed aerosol cans of water labeled Nuclear Fallout Repellant. Even zanier is his Deeley Bobber, a glitter-coated headset that looks like insect antennae. In the past ten weeks an estimated 2 million bobbers have been sold at $2.99 each...
...authorities had swept away the cross. Later in the day, as special honor guards marched past the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Victory Square, squads of the ZOMO security forces, who have frequently been used to break up demonstrations, waited in the side streets with their riot gear and water cannons. Said a middle-aged steelworker: "How can you believe in the government's good intentions when you have to have a celebration at gunpoint...
...only serious smudge on the luster of this World Cup, hundreds of police armed with attack dogs, tear-gas launchers and riot gear patrol the streets of Bilbao in armored personnel carriers. The enemy: England's 20,000-strong youthful ragtag army of fans, feared throughout the Continent, loose in the land of cheap vino. They spilled from bar doorways and windows and gathered to taunt the restrained but ready Spanish police before England's match with France two weeks ago. England won, 3-1. One lad slurred: "These here cops are wankers. Our boys'll have...
Browsing around one can pick up the heaviest baseball ever, a shotput covered with a leather hide. Hanging on a book opposite the front door is a set of 1940s catcher's gear below it is a wooden club emblazoned "Louisville Bat Co." manufactured years before the company changed its named to "Louisville Slugger." Sheet music of various baseball songs including four of the five original copies of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," cover the walls...