Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Connecticut couple has discovered another way besides the lottery to convert numbers into dollars. Hank and Marie Oscar knew that there was something unusual about 800-243-2546, the toll-free number that AT&T had randomly assigned to their video-gear company, Oscarvision Systems. On the telephone dial, their number spells CHECK-IN, which they first realized eight years ago when a hotel called and asked for the rights to their number. But the cash offer was too tiny to bother with, so the Oscars held on to their digits even though the spelling had no connection with video...
...been some prehistoric Frenchman urging his fellows to catch the cave paintings at Lascaux. But movies, as the first mechanical art form, have always churned on assembly-line publicity. With the mid-'70s success of People magazine, and later + Entertainment Tonight, the celebrity industry went high tech and high gear. Nearly every hour of the TV day, from Today and Good Morning America through Oprah and Donahue to Carson and Nightwatch, is filled with show-biz interviews...
...whistle-stops across the country, similar scenes were played out last week as candidates for the Nov. 16 national elections revved campaign machinery into high gear. While Bhutto and her mother, Begum Nusrat Bhutto, crisscrossed the country, their opponents in the powerful Islamic Democratic Alliance, a nine-party coalition that controls the national caretaker government under President Ghulam Ishaq Khan, called out impressive processions of supporters in major cities. For the first time since 1977, Pakistan was immersed in a national campaign with the participation of all political parties...
...Sunday the astronauts were expected to conduct an in-flight televised news conference, announce plans for a memorial to the Challenger astronauts and complete their science experiments. Then, if all went well, they were to stow their gear and make other preparations for an early Monday-afternoon landing at California's Edwards Air Force Base. Discovery's dramatic mission will be over. But an even more pressing mission -- returning America to space with a meaningful and long-range program -- is just beginning...
Pamela Thomure, a supporter who managed Graham's first campaign in 1971, said Graham was "shocked" after losing the September 15th primary to Thompson, but was now in "very high gear...