Word: geared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Effects tests to see how well U.S. equipment and facilities, particularly electronic-communications gear, stand up under nuclear explosions...
...Deviation. When Volvo built its first auto in 1927, its engineers were so inexperienced in the field that the car bolted backward when thrown into first gear. Today, however, Volvo factories swarm with lynx-eyed inspectors so uncompromising that suppliers are apt to find entire shipments of parts rejected for a minor deviation that many auto companies would let pass. Such rigid adherence to standards comes straight from Volvo's incisive Managing Director Gunnar Engellau, 55, who coldly compels his top executives to reduce their weight whenever they deviate from his specifications for the ideal male figure. Since Engellau...
...with it. Your story says Mrs. Rockefeller is a "fantastic horseback rider despite her English saddle." Yet in the accompanying photo, Mrs. Rockefeller is shown riding the West's favorite horse, the Appaloosa, with Western gear...
...could do its job only if equipped with highly sophisticated electronic gear and nuclear missiles that have not even been designed, let alone built. McNamara proposed spending an additional $52 million next fiscal year to see if the electronic equipment planned for the RS-70 is feasible...
From a technical standpoint, the radar harassment was no major threat to today's sophisticated electronic gear, which allows skilled operators to ''see'' through such outmoded forms of jamming. But the West was concerned at the continual harassment. Noticeably annoyed, President Kennedy called dropping the aluminum chaff "a particularly dangerous kind of action.'' The U.S. seemed more determined than ever to fight if the Russians nudge too hard in the corridors. U.S. jet fighters, armed with Sidewinder missiles, recently have been aloft at the Western end of the Berlin air lanes, ready...