Word: gearing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even as GM braked, Toyota shifted into high gear. The Japanese firm announced an $800 million expansion that will nearly double the capacity of its two-year-old Georgetown, Ky., complex, which now produces 230,000 mid-size Camrys a year. Toyota said the expansion will increase the plant's work force of 3,450 by more than 40% when the new facility opens in 1993. Along with an expansion under way in Fremont, Calif., the move will double Toyota's annual U.S. plant capacity to 600,000 cars and trucks...
...sites that will have to be taken out. Iraq is believed to have 400 to 500 operational combat planes, including 30 to 35 French-built Mirage fighters and 110 to 140 Soviet-made MiGs -- all first- line, modern warplanes equipped with air-to-air missiles and some electronic-warfare gear. Some might be destroyed on the ground, but a good many would probably get into the air to give battle. One estimate is that they would be able to shoot down about 50 American planes...
...investors, after all, already own more than $400 billion worth of U.S. businesses and real estate. And Matsushita doesn't make a very convincing villain. The world's largest consumer electronics firm (fiscal 1990 revenues: $38 billion), it manufactures some of America's favorite brands of video and audio gear: Panasonic, Quasar and Technics...
...that victims would inhale. A tiny amount would go a long way. Less than 1 g (0.035 oz.) of a bacterium called tularemia could produce thousands of deadly doses. U.S. officials insist that soldiers can be protected from such an attack with gas masks and nonpermeable clothing. But the gear cannot be worn indefinitely, especially in the desert's searing heat, and strains resistant to existing vaccines can be developed...
...reinforced by a steel tube frame. The upholstered interior typically features only a few elements, including a dashboard with speedometer, fuel gauge and controls. Adjustable seats and interior heating are still standard. The engines are 1 to 5 h.p., made in Italy or Japan, and have only one forward gear and one reverse. "The technology is pretty simple," says Patrick Escalier, Paris regional director for Marden, "but what more do you need for city driving...