Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first the Burbidges accepted this arrangement. Then one day Mrs. Burbidge was refused use of an observatory truck to haul her scientific gear up the mountain. That did it: the Burbidges formally protested the antiwoman rule...
...recession and the slow 1971 recovery. Its key business is supplying mammoth, superfast computers to nuclear researchers, university laboratories and aerospace companies-all of which have had to cut their budgets. Also, the hefty profits that CDC once earned by selling rotating disc files, line printers and other peripheral gear have all but disappeared. IBM has become a major manufacturer of peripherals for its own and other computers and sells them at prices lower than those that Control Data has been used to charging...
...command in Saigon is forever fending off ARVN demands for more complex gear. One U.S. general tells of having to lecture some Vietnamese generals at a recent Saigon dinner. "I told them that in 1968, General Vo Nguyen Giap [the Communist Defense Minister] had a regiment right here in Saigon. He had no helicopters, no F-4s, no MIGs, no B-52s. 'Now,' I said, 'he's Vietnamese too. So how do you suppose General Giap solved his logistics problems?' They said they really didn't know, so I told them that the most...
...Republican National Committee headquarters, the drive to re-elect Richard Nixon has yet to shift into high gear. In the offices of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, the official campaign headquarters, some of the desks are still empty, awaiting the arrival of a staff-including Attorney General John Mitchell, who is expected to take up his old post as campaign manager. But one part of the Nixon drive has been operating at full tilt for weeks: the G.O.P. Youth Division is wasting no time going after the 25 million young men and women eligible to vote...
LADEN with a fearsome array of missiles and electronic gear, the two operational Kresta II-class guided-missile cruisers reflect the skill of Soviet naval architects in putting the maximum punch in the smallest package. Equipped to operate without long range air cover, the 6,000-ton Kresta II has a crew of 500 and a cruising speed of 33 knots. It carries one pair of surface-to-air missile launchers forward and another aft, each pair with its individual radar-guidance and fire-control unit. Towering atop the Kresta II is its big Top Sail surveillance radar, designed...