Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Union officer sent down from Washington to view the fighting from a distant hill. He wore dark blue woolen trousers, suspenders, an officer's jacket, a sword and a Colt .44-cal. Army-model revolver of the type issued to officers before 1862 --in all, about $500 worth of gear. His interest was in the historical significance of the battle, which saw the first appearance of rifled cannons and the first movement of troops into battle by rail. "None of these generals had ever handled so many thousands of troops before," he marveled. An estimated 35,000 Confederates and about...
...this level, perks and luxuries appear. Racquets, shoes and warm-up gear are supplied by Western equipment sponsors. Conflicts with academics are nonexistent: players attend a "sports school." It requires half the usual number of classroom hours and often excuses students for training or tournaments. A personal coach works out an individual schedule with hours of practice, calisthenics, lessons and perhaps a set or two with fellow trainees. All this is followed by sessions to review videotapes of each day's performance and plot strategy for matches...
...year. By causing energy loans to go sour and depressing the whole Southwest, cheap oil pushed the Oklahoma City bank over the brink and aggravated BankAmerica's huge losses. The petroleum slide helped drag down LTV too, because the company is a major supplier of oil-drilling and pumping gear, which almost no one wants to buy right now. Last week the number of oil rigs operating in the U.S. reached a postwar record low of 663, compared with a peak...
...will be a commodious presidential office, conference room, staff lounge, working stations with computers, guest area and a ward for the media, with telex terminals, in the tail. A tiny hospital will be wedged in and maybe even a meeting room for the First Lady. Upstairs will be communications gear and crew quarters...
...reflects the recommendations of a special commission that Nakasone created to study the Japanese economy. It laid out a program last April to bring Japan into closer cooperation with other nations. The Prime Minister has been hitting hard at the theme. Says he: "Most important of all is to gear the Japanese people's minds to an international perspective." In keeping with that view, Nakasone wants Japan to assume greater responsibility for its own defense by boosting military spending and depending less...