Word: outfitted
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...Greenpeace protest ship Rainbow Warrior was sinking in Auckland Harbor after a midnight bombing on July 10, witnesses spotted a figure in a frogman's outfit wading ashore nearby and climbing into a camper. Last week a French-speaking couple traveling around New Zealand in a van were arrested on arson and murder charges in connection with the sabotage, which killed Crew Member Fernando Pereira. Although the couple, identified as Alain Turenge, 33, and Sophie Turenge, 36, claimed to be Swiss tourists, a government spokesman in Berne said that the Turenges "do not exist" in Swiss records. Police have issued...
...there was a major car company in crisis. Britain's MG Rover was the worst off. On Friday, with its already-meager sales sliding, its cash depleted and its last hope for an 11th-hour rescue by a Chinese buyer seemingly dashed, the four Birmingham businessmen who owned the outfit handed it over to administrators from accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Some 6,000 workers at Rover's Longbridge factory in Birmingham fear for their jobs, despite British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown racing to the plant, promising a massive aid package to mitigate the damage...
...starters, there’s his well-tended image. He dresses impeccably, and is rarely seen on campus in the same outfit more than once. He frequently wears designer shoes and natty three-piece tweed suits, and his well-tended dreadlocks are one of his trademarks...
...really liked the guy right in front of me. He was wearing sweatpants, a sweatshirt, and $150 Nike Shox, which would have been a cool outfit if he wasn’t a 5-foot-7 fat white guy. He would yell things at me and then shake my hand and apologize...
Sometimes, living by your principles is a difficult thing to do. Last month Pax World Funds, a socially responsible investing outfit, sold 375,000 shares of Starbucks, worth some $23.4 million, because the java chain started selling coffee liqueur with spirits firm Jim Beam--and Pax won't invest in companies that make liquor. "We were very reluctant to do this," says Anita Green, Pax's vice president for social research. "There's a lot we like about this company." In fact, Starbucks has been lauded--by Pax and others--for its progressive environmental policies, its commitment to sell Fair...