Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...back on a growth path, Araskog has launched a major offensive in the U.S. telecommunications and office-equipment markets. The company has long been a major supplier of sophisticated telecommunications gear in Western Europe but was effectively shut out of the American market until last year's breakup of AT&T. Now ITT hopes to sell an advanced switchboard, known as System 12, to some of the new regional Bell companies. However, it faces formidable competition from several firms, including AT&T, GTE and Northern Telecom. In the office-equipment field, ITT has come out with a personal computer...
Posing as clerks at a bogus Oceanside, Calif., store called Golden State Surplus, authorities bought pilfered flak jackets, combat knives, .45-cal. magazines and sleeping bags from Camp Pendleton Marines for 10% to 20% of their cost. "Marines were quite literally breaking down the door trying to sell us gear," said FBI Agent John Kelso. Among the purloined goods were 9,400 blank military ID cards, which could have been used for access to mili tary bases. Most of the gear was never reported missing. Some inventories even showed an over stock, indicating that higher-ups may at least have...
Advertising on cable television is only part of what the Harvard Cooperative Society is doing to gear up for the holiday crush o, customers at its six Boston-area stores. Officials in the Harvard Square headquarters say they're expecting 50 percent more people this month than in Novermber--largely because in the month before Christmas the store will be open a total of 109 extra hours, including every Sunday...
...seat belts were buckled, the overhead compartments properly latched. The landing gear, however, was retracted: the Boeing 720 touched the ground hurtling on its belly at 170 m.p.h. Screeching along out of control, it rammed stanchions along the runway. Its left wing was ripped from the fuselage. Soon the plane was engulfed by an enormous fireball-and then a second fire. Not far from the crash zone, a crowd of witnesses, including Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole, calmly watched the whole explosive episode...
Harvard never really got its passing game in gear, while the Huskies never really had to-they relied on devastating shots from the blue line and pure pressure...