Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaigns for the Senate, for governorships, for seats in Congress and state legislatures are only starting to get into high gear. The results, when the votes are counted on Nov. 2, will be distorted by thousands of considerations of personality and local concerns. But a central theme is emerging: Who is to blame for the prolonged and severe U.S. recession...
...Making it up" on a canvas eight feet square cannot be done outdoors. Laden with a 70-lb. pack of easel, paints, canvas and gear, Welliver trudges out in winter to find a scene and make an oil sketch. The large version is always a studio painting, and its fictions of spontaneity - of rapid-fire correspondence between the eye scanning a scene and the hand making its marks -take a month or more to achieve. But the paint looks direct and uncluttered; it seems to have been done alla prima, wet into wet, in a few hours. In fact...
...suddenly in its first two games the Harvard offence scored just two goals, one of them on a penalty her. But with special attention given to finishing off plays in practice and most important time to work together as a team, the Crimson offense shifted from first to fifth gear a week...
McCabe continued to pick up short yardage effectively for the Crimson throughout the first quarter, but the Harvard running game didn't reach high gear until junior Tim McGugan began carrying the ball early in the second quarter...
Naturally, the Syrians were outraged, not only by the insults but also by their own conviction that Soviet equipment is just not as good as American, and thus they are bound to lose in any future encounters with Israel. The doubt about Moscow's military gear has crept into the dialogues of other customers, and it is having a quiet impact around the world...