Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addicts are delighted by the available space. There is room to eat, sleep and make love; there is room to store electric guitars, amplifiers and loudspeakers and camping gear as well. "The essence of living in a van," says Alan Feinstein, a Ph.D. dropout who drives one around northern California, "is that it gives you the freedom to have a lifestyle of not being tied down. I can go where my head wants...
...indeed laid out the most sweeping changes since the Hundred Days of the New Deal in 1933, when Franklin Roosevelt took the U.S. off the gold standard and began to get the Depression-racked economy into gear. The Nixon program had immediate and dramatic impact at home: on the first day the Dow-Jones average took a record jump on the New York Stock Exchange. But abroad there was consternation. Nixon's measures threatened a serious reversal of the postwar trend toward freer trade. They also ripped the fraying international monetary agreements that have made expanded trade possible. Canada...
...month-old talks went into high gear last May, when the Soviets unexpectedly agreed to guarantee free access to West Berlin by rail and autobahn from West Germany, 110 miles away. Currently, the conferees are hung up on a few key details-precisely what the Soviets mean by "unimpeded" access to West Berlin, what political role Bonn will be permitted to play in the city, and whether the Soviets should be allowed to establish a consulate there...
...Though it will not range more than five miles from the lunar lander, the rover includes enough navigational gear (a gyroscope, an odometer and a computer) that the astronauts should always know their location in relation to the lunar module. Scott and Irwin may find the equipment extremely helpful: last February, the Apollo 14 astronauts became so confused by the moon's baffling, undulating terrain that they briefly lost their bearings...
...they plan to buy a car within the next six months v. 8.8% in a March-April study. Plans to buy refrigerators, TV sets, washing machines and air conditioners also diminished. Says Board Economist Fabian Linden: "Everybody is waiting for the consumer to spend the economy back into high gear, but the consumer appears to be waiting for the economy to turn around first...