Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mild compromise with Moscow. According to these accounts, the Soviets have decreased the microwave bombardment to pre-May levels-but they have not halted it, as the Government is still demanding. In exchange, the U.S. has removed some equipment from the embassy. Among other things, U.S. surveillance gear has allegedly been used for a project called Gamma Guppy that has tried to eavesdrop on conversations conducted by members of the Soviet Politburo in their limousines. The State Department refused to comment on the compromise, but officials said wire-mesh guards ("mosquito screens" that deflect 90% of the microwaves) have been...
Yearwood felt that the team shifted into gear when "the television lights went on." Ron Wade said in the victors' dressing room that the team had decided at halftime, "We didn't want to look terrible at the Garden so we could tell our grand-children that we won at the Garden and put it on our medical school applications...
...Crimson went into high gear with Hill converting off a lob pass from Carey. Next, Carey, who led all players with four steals, hawked the ball and drove the length of the court for a score. He capped his whirlwind first half performance with a pair of foul shots to give the Crimson a seven point cushion...
Iran recently cut its order for American Spruance-class destroyers from six ships to four. The Shah is also said to be reconsidering his informal decisions to buy the U.S. AW ACS system (a Boeing 707 packed with strategic electronic gear), a new Air Force cargo plane called the YC-15 and 300 F-16 lightweight Air Force fighter planes...
...pressured forum for a student and teacher working together. A student must perform for teacher and audience and is expected to adapt a master's suggestions to his playing with little time to digest the advice, let alone work on it. A cello teacher, on the other hand, must gear his advice to the student so that the audience of cellists and non-cellists, musicians and non-musicians can profit from the class...