Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that can accommodate eight people, while commodious staterooms boast VCRs and private baths with Jacuzzis. Instead of a grungy galley, the superyacht has a gleaming kitchen replete with microwaves, commercial-size freezers and stoves, and trash compactors. The bionic boats pack every aquatic toy: water skis, snorkling gear, diving equipment, Jet Skis and sailboards. To help while away foul weather, a free-flowing bar is at the ready, and libraries are stocked with videotapes as well as books, chess and backgammon games. Many decks have saunas, and in one vessel there is a piano with built-in heating elements...
McVey fled the U.S. in 1982, after being indicted for shipping sophisticated computers, satellite image-processing gear and other equipment ; to Moscow. He apparently decided to visit the Yukon on a fishing trip, and was spotted by a Mountie corporal who remembered his photograph...
...with a color monitor, boasts five to eight times the memory of a PCjr, a larger, easier-to-use keyboard and greatly improved graphics. On the same day IBM added a high-end $13,995 model to its much touted Personal System/2 series, the line of office gear introduced in April to replace...
...After the Bridgeton was hit, the Navy put the 401,000-ton supertanker out front to protect the three U.S. warships that were supposed to be protecting it. The American vessels, bristling with the latest gear to defend against planes, ships and submarines, could not cope with the World War II-vintage mines. "Who is escorting whom?" asked Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd last week. "This patently absurd and ridiculous result of the first escort mission is embarrassing to the nation...
...some fans, however, not even the music is enough. Elvis' Memphis home, Graceland, already a prime tourist attraction, will gear up for everything from candlelight vigils to a 5-km run. Lucy de Barbin, who claims that her daughter Desiree was fathered by Elvis, is pushing the recently published Are You Lonesome Tonight?, which purports to dish out the hot sticky behind the entire episode. Meanwhile, the King's official ex-wife, Actress Priscilla Presley, is offering a one-hour video tour of Elvis Presley's Graceland. It isn't hard to figure what Elvis would have made...