Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MIDDLE EAST Strauss tries to get the autonomy talks into second gear...
...fairly smooth start this week in beleaguered Cleveland stood in marked contrast to Septembers past, when busing began in cities like Louisville and Boston. But busing remains one of America's most tense and torturous topics. Even in Columbus, police added earplugs to their antiriot gear to help them keep calm in case they encountered a screaming mob of irate parents...
...year promises to be different; the changes once viewed as the machinations of one police chief are now firmly embeded institutional realities, morale is better, a new police chief has ushered in many of the extralegal union demands made three years ago. And with a full-fledged recession in gear and spiraling inflation, this is simply not a good year for extracting more than 7 per cent wage hikes and better benefits...
...dusty truck loaded with guns and radio gear rolls down the Arizona highway south toward Nogales and the Mexican border, Bernell E. ("Bernie") Lawrence points toward a range of mountains. "O.K.," he drawls in a desert-dry voice, "where's the place up there you'd look for lion tracks?" He already knows. "Lions like the backbone of a set of mountains. They'll cross where two canyons meet. For them it's like climbing stairs." Lawrence is 48. For much of his life he tracked and killed mountain lions, bears and coyotes. Then society...
...speed up the conversion of starch into sugar) and some baker's yeast (to bring about the fermentation). After fermentation is complete, which takes less than a week, the mess is dumped into a still, where the alcohol is boiled off. Basically just moon shiner's gear, the device consists of a steel drum with a chimney-like funnel and a condensing vat to catch the distilled alcohol. A bushel of vegetable matter can yield two to three gallons of fuel. A small still may produce ten gallons...