Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small pencils; the personnel chiefs at Burroughs Corp. believe that women can tolerate the tedious routine jobs that would drive men up the walls. The monotonous, repetitive jobs in the textile and garment plants are held almost wholly by women, and one-third of the nation's electronics gear is wired and assembled by them...
...cars, is the biggest independent making a full line of products. At the same time, Arnold Maremont cast about into nonautomotive fields, picked up several basically sound companies in trouble and set them right. One problem acquisition: the Gabriel Co., a producer of auto shock absorbers and electronic gear, which took longer than expected to revamp, was largely responsible for slicing Maremont's 1963 earnings in half...
...once he is in motion, Hayes accelerates like a dragster. Within 40 yds., he is moving at top speed. Then, as if he had flipped a switch, he goes into overdrive-a kind of higher-than-high gear, in which he actually seems to be flying along about 3 in. off the ground...
...Elis had captured eight of eight events when Abramson, the Crimson's last hope to score a win against frontline Bulldog opposition, took the starting blocks. His Eli rivals stayed with him for the first four laps, but couldn't keep pace when the Crimson junior shifted into high gear. Abramson's time was 5:05.5, only 0.3 off his own Harvard record...
Anything for Anyone. Thanks to the cold war, corporate rivalries and Big Crime-not to mention old-fashioned marital jealousy-curiosity has built a fat-cat industry. The Federal Government alone is believed to buy about $20 million worth of bugging gear a year. Moreover, this total does not include all purchases by the bug-infested CIA, which likes to shop through dummy agencies. No manufacturer admits selling to hoods or pleasure snoopers, but most of them believe that their competitors do. Says Fred East, Los Angeles County district attorney's investigator: "Anyone can buy any kind of bugging...