Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Temple slugger Jim Beck had given the Owls an early lead by whacking a three-run homer in the first inning, but St. John's got in gear and pulled away and cruised to victory with five runs in the fourth, one in the fifth and three in the sixth...
...designs, but some times they miscalculate. Just such a mistake appeared to be behind the Environmental Protection Agency's order last week that American Motors Corp. recall 270,000 of its 1976 cars- all the autos it made that year except those for California, which have special pollution gear -plus 40,000 of its 1975 and 1976 Jeeps and mail trucks. The fault lay in a $20 pollution control system part, made for AMC by Cleveland's Eaton Corp., that earlier had passed EPA tests. After several months on the road, a brazed joint in the back-pressure...
...potent Crimson took complete control of the contest in the second half, shifting the offense into high gear while the defense made life miserable for the Dartmouth attackmen. Harvard stretched the lead to 16-7 after three, then duplicated the first quarter in the fourth, connecting seven times while holding the visitors scoreless...
...Arctic Ocean obliging him to hack passageways through the ice to make way for his 882-lb. sledge. Temperatures dropping to as low as -68° F., gale-force winds and a blizzard also slowed down Uemura Though he wore modern thermal underwear, most of his clothing was Eskimo gear; bearskin trousers, sealskin mittens and fur-lined boots...
...marginal and not-so-marginal contractors, there is much temptation to get cut-rate gear in order to avoid the enormous inflation in heavy equipment prices. Example: an International Harvester crawler loader costs $72,000, up from $45,000 five years...