Word: geared
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While work on the guide only kicked into high gear over intersession, the students said the idea...
Three years ago, Bill Sopko Sr. made the biggest gamble of his business career. With the economy booming, Sopko, the owner of an automotive-parts plant in Euclid, Ohio, invested $6 million in the latest gear to manufacture a critical brake component for heavy trucks. With a new 3,000-ton stamping press, he would reduce costs from $14 per unit to $9. Recouping his investment, he knew, could take as long as 10 years. But with plenty of orders in the pipeline, Sopko figured he had made a shrewd move. What he didn't calculate was getting caught...
...NETEHERLANDS Testimony Begins Week two of the trial of Slobodan Milosevic moved into high gear with the first five witnesses called to testify that the former President was responsible for the deportation of 800,000 ethnic Albanians from Kosovo and the murder of hundreds more. Kosovo Albanian political leader Mahmut Bakali, who had meetings with Milosevic, said that Serbs imposed an "apartheid" state on ethnic Albanians after Milosevic became leader. But it was those furthest removed from power who gave the most striking testimony: the first Kosovo Albanian victims testified against - and were questioned by - the man they hold most...
...fact, someone definitely forgot, because Coleman entered this season in the best shape of his career, ready to run the floor in an offense committed to running in fifth gear...
President Bush is shifting his environmental policy into high gear, leaving environmentalists more than a little nervous - and putting some business leaders in an awfully good mood...