Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...local economy or the 269,000 dozen cookies. One million new trees planted by a conservation group? Good for them. Nothing like a tree. The question is why. Why, as the magenta was going up at the Los Angeles Coliseum, were 7,800 athletes from 140 nations loading their gear and kissing Mother goodbye? Numbers? Here's a number. On July 28, 2 billion people of the great trembling bipolar world will lay down their washing and watch these Games...
Such interest creates not one spectacle but two: the spectacle of the Games and that of those watching them. If television cameras had a "reverse gear" that could be applied from country to country, one might see quite a show of Peruvians, Thais and lowans privately gasping and clapping as they watch the action. Excessive communications are said to work against human feelings, but here the effect is the opposite. Not a show of world peace, perhaps, but something valuable, nonetheless, in a shared set of relatively benign emotions on so vast a scale...
Bargains are harder to locate in South America, where many businesses gear their prices to whatever wealthy tourists are willing to spend. Nightclubbers currently pay $13 a person for the show at Rio's Plataforma I; it was $10 last year and $7 in 1980. Says Club Director Jota Martins: "We don't think our prices are high. They may be so for the average Brazilian, but the average Brazilian does not come here." Nonetheless, travelers can find some buys in South American countries. At La Costa Verde restaurant near Lima, a leisurely seafood lunch with drinks...
...track, which, as a confessional, stands proudly alongside such earlier Reed classics as "Coney Island Baby" or "Street Hassle." The song opens with the rhythm section of Saunders and drummer Fred Maher chugging lightly along--as if the engine of Reed's GPZ motorcycle were building up to high gear--finally leading into the expansive guitar and synthesizer work of Reed and Peter Wood. The lyrics begin as a straightforward statement of Reed's new aims in life, but then suddenly veer off to follow Reed and his GPZ to a roadside diner out in Pennsylvania, where he takes part...
...even losing its supremacy in high-technology goods. Its trade surplus for these products, including computers and telecommunications gear, has dropped from $25.5 billion in 1980 to $17 billion last year. Spectra-Physics, a San Jose, Calif.-based manufacturer of laser equipment, says that its share of the world market for some products has fallen from 75% to 50% in only three years...