Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Operating on a more limited scale under a 1986 antidrug law, the Navy and Air Force flew 16,300 hours in surveillance flights last year. The Navy devoted 2,500 ship-days of patrolling with Coast Guard officers aboard to make drug arrests. Military interception gear and intelligence were shared with civilian agencies. The cost: $67 million...
...fever and other allergy sufferers will testify, the immune system can sometimes react to pollen, animal dander, molds and drugs that are normally harmless. In allergy victims, however, the immune system goes into high gear at the appearance of these substances, or allergens. It begins producing antibodies called immunoglobulin E, which attach themselves to mast cells located in the tissues of the skin, in the linings of the respiratory and intestinal tracts, and around the blood vessels. The mast cells promptly begin to release a number of chemical signals, including histamine, a substance that dilates blood vessels and makes...
...muster points in besieged garrison towns around Afghanistan, sentries in camouflage uniforms guard mounds of duffel bags, stripped-down weapons and communications gear. The streets teem with jeeps, armored personnel carriers, trucks, tanks, half-tracks, command cars, vans, ambulances. The vehicles are the beasts of burden for a caravan of retreat and defeat that will begin this week to wend its way through the rugged passes of the Hindu Kush, north toward home along the Salang Highway, which stretches from Kabul to the Soviet border. The road was a "gift" from the U.S.S.R. to the people of Afghanistan...
...empire suddenly looked as frail as King Lear's. So Hollywood is closely watching Lucas' $35 million gamble on Willow. But will moviegoers watch? To a genre weakened by formula and familiarity, Lucas has brought little new, just a reprise of his Star Wars plot and characters in sylvan gear. His Luke Skywalker is Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis), a dwarf in a community of dwarfs, a young farmer put in charge of the infant who is destined to deliver his land from the terrible rule of Queen Bavmorda (Jean Marsh). On his journey to Castle Nockmaar, he acquires...
...airline maintenance has become a sophisticated science when practiced at its best on today's increasingly complicated aircraft. The Boeing 747, biggest of them all, contains 4.5 million removable parts and 135 miles of electrical wiring. Mechanics have branched into specialties, complete with nicknames: "knuckledraggers" take care of hydraulic gear and bodywork, and "twidgets" handle sensitive avionics and other electrical gear. Mechanics now inspect as many parts as possible without removing them, and even have adapted a medical device used for colon examinations as an inspection tool...