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Word: gearing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flagship school of the tough western Pennsylvania mine country, Penn Hills High; score: Moeller 30, Penn Hills 13. The Crusaders' final regular season game against Mount Healthy was typical. Despite a driving rain that turned the field into a swamp, the flashy Moeller offense still operated in high gear, rolling up five touchdowns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Moeller High's Holy Rollers | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...poolside, and the sign outside read: "Workshop at 2:30--Fighting Corporations From the Inside." In the midst of Washington wealth, the national conference of the Democratic Agenda (DA)--a broad but shaky left-liberal coalition seeking to "set an agenda for the 1980's"--was in high gear. And after three days of meetings, plenary sessions, workshops, a luncheon and a dance, the disparate assortment of 2000 or so students, trade unionists, consumer activists, veteran '60s radicals (including former SDS and Harvard strike leader Michael S. Ansara '69), feminists, black and Hispanic leaders, social reformers, religious leaders and community...

Author: By Mark R. Anspach and James G. Hershberg, S | Title: Setting an Agenda for the '80s | 11/21/1979 | See Source »

...committee, approved by King and the state legislature after the Three Mile Island accident, held its first hearings October 10 and "is really in high gear now," Wilson said. The next session, open to all interested parties, is scheduled for December 14 and will cover the suitability of Plymouth for a nuclear site, the transportation of nuclear in the state, and the methods for communicating to the public after a hypothetical accident, Wilson said. "We've raised some hard questions that need addressing," said Wiltshire. "I'd hate to have a Three Mile Island every few years to keep people...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Nuclear Committee Urges Plant Review | 11/20/1979 | See Source »

With DuFresne racking up 102 yards on 27 carries, quarterback Jeff Kemp--son of the ex-quarterback and now-senator from New York, Jack--shifted the Dartmouth offense into gear...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Dartmouth Snores Past Harvard, 10-7 | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...captain to the deckhands. But emblazoned on the hull in red, white and blue letters was a most un-Japanese name: Boutique America. Below deck the contrast was even greater. The cargo area was an entire department store of U.S. consumer goods, ranging from golf clubs and fishing gear to pots and pans, jewelry, evening dresses and even slabs of sirloin steak. Displayed at specially constructed counters were some 8,000 items of U.S. goods from 145 companies. For the next two months, Boatique America will be a floating U.S. trade fair as it visits 13 different Japanese ports, selling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Slowing the Juggernaut | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

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