Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most details, the Chernenko funeral differed little from the final rites for Brezhnev and Andropov. The crack gray-uniformed honor guards, goose- stepping beside the red and black-bedecked gun carriage, each balancing his rifle on one hand, seemed as coldly perfect as a precision gear wheel put through one more rotation. Portraits of Chernenko bobbed above the crowds in a regular pattern as the cortege made its way into Red Square...
...increase American access to Japan's telecommunications market. The talks are in preparation for the landmark April 1 conversion of Japan's national telephone system from a state-run monopoly into a privately owned company. This will create a vast opening for makers of such sophisticated telecommunications gear as satellites and digital switches, together with services like electronic cash transfers. American companies hanker for the business and feel they can keep their prices competitive even with the strong dollar driving up the cost of their goods abroad...
...advice Lynn ever gave me," he says of the episode, "though she was shocked when I told her I had taken it." Using the $1,300 he received in severance pay from Phillips' profit- $ sharing plan, Pickens bought a 1955 Ford station wagon large enough to hold his exploration gear...
...suddenly lost full power in one engine, and the other three began to operate with reduced thrust. The 325-ton bird dropped six miles in two minutes, practically turning upside down as it rolled to the right. The force of the fall ripped off the doors of the landing-gear compartment, and may have sent the 7-ft. by 4-ft. metal sheets tearing through the stabilizing wings at the aircraft's tail. The wild buffeting also bent part of the steering mechanism in the right wing...
...shift last week Apple changed its strategy from Blue busting to detente with IBM. Conceding that many firms will rely partially on IBM equipment, Apple has decided it must coexist by devising both software and hardware adapters that will give its machines the ability to communicate with IBM's gear. "We recognize we have to adjust to IBM's world," said Sculley, "because they're not going to adjust to ours...