Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...network. In fact, many experts think such delays have contributed to the current computer-industry sales slump. Says Skip Bushee, director of research for Silicon Valley's InfoCorp: "Without seeing the standard from IBM, the industry was confused. This should enhance sales for everyone." The market for computer-network gear is expected to zoom from the current $300 million annually to as much as $6 billion by the end of the decade...
...scored an impressive nine out of ten points. Anne then clambered into a 24-ton armored personnel carrier, scoring five hits out of seven with its cannon and rattling 70 rounds from its machine gun dead into the bull's-eye. Then the fearless princess threw the APC into gear and sped back to the barracks, presumably for a spot...
Sunday, as the Royals and Redbirds gear up for game two, Cambridge will be hosting its biggest event of the year, the 21st Annual Head-of-the-Charles Regatta...
...could be ready for deployment by the middle or late 1990s or after the year 2000. That does not differ greatly from the optimistic timetable for deploying comparable elements of an American Star Wars defense. The booklet also rather grudgingly concedes that in one vital area of Star Wars gear -- sensors to detect missiles and warheads across thousands of miles of space, as well as computers to aim lasers, particle beams or whatever -- "technologies . . . are currently more highly developed in the West than in the Soviet Union." But the Kremlin is trying to catch up, it warns, in part...
...American, French, Italian, West German, British, Canadian and Swiss rescue workers, the challenge was grueling and at times gruesome. The din of Mexico City traffic fouled readings on some of their sensitive listening probes; thus the gear was used most effectively at night. When survivors were discovered within the rubble, rescue teams dug long tunnels, frequently by hand, to reach them...