Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dean Rosovsky said yesterday he will "move into high gear" as soon as he finds out the council's nominees for Afro posts, and begin to woo them...
...full-time competitor as well as amateur, there is a price for the solitude they find along rural trails: hard work. Few sports are so demanding. On long, thin skis, cross-country skiers are like marathon runners covering miles of rugged terrain while burdened by pounds of awkward gear...
...short run will slow economic activity in the U.S. Some parts of Ford's package must work at cross-purposes, but if the effect of any one element goes seriously awry, the whole enterprise could come apart like some Chaplinesque machine of wheels within wheels that has slipped a gear. As Ford Adviser Buchen puts it: "The interrelatedness of our domestic problems is so great that there's very little room for miscalculations...
...only high-priced but hot as well. Says Sheriff Elwood Hill of Odessa: "They are stealing just about everything in the oil patch that isn't tied down." Hill adds that an experienced team of oilfield thieves can dismantle and cart off $20,000 worth of gear within two hours...
Horowitz has always found much of his amusement in dreaming up gadgets, off-beat electronic gear that no one has built before, whether by choice or by oversight. As offshoots of early hobbies, he built a teletype for ham operators that transmits in Morse Code, and a metronome that, with a few adjustments, clicks out a syncopated beat. Lately, he seems most tickled by a small box he and two undergraduates built, which has been programmed with the algorithms of various types of music. Given a note, the machine will make a random choice based on probabilities of which note...