Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Welcome to the era of hedged bets and lowered expectations. Young people increasingly claim they are willing to leave careers in middle gear, without making that final climb to the top. The leitmotiv of the new age: second place seems just fine. But young adults are flighty if they find their workplace harsh or inflexible. "The difference between now and then was that we had a higher threshold for unhappiness," says editor Salzman. "I always expected that a job would be 80% misery and 20% glory, but this generation refuses to pay its dues...
Becky, whose room in Indianapolis is still filled with stuffed animals and riding gear, felt she could do neither. She had gone to Planned Parenthood for a pregnancy test, the Bells learned as they tried to retrace the steps she took during those final days, and there she was told of the Indiana law. No one knows what happened between that moment and her death two months later. When the Bells went through Becky's purse after she died, they found telephone numbers of abortion clinics in Kentucky, which did not require parental consent. "Becky just happened to live...
...Perfecta-will now be run separately. All make sophisticated printing equipment, and all are international leaders in their fields. Some other machine and machine-tool companies get good marks from Western bankers, including the Fritz Heckert plant in Chemnitz and parts of the October 7 group like the Niles gear-grinding machine company that had its origins in Niles, Ohio. The list of the tigers, though, is far shorter than the list of the dogs...
...that they work full eight-hour shifts instead of leaving early to moonlight. Schwinn installed new painting and welding equipment and developed sporty new models. The company expects the improvements to pay off later this year when the joint venture starts exporting a new line of low-priced, 18-gear mountain bikes to the U.S. and West Germany...
Fiat, which has produced cars in Poland for more than 50 years, is shifting into high gear. Next year the Turin-based company will start building the first of 1.5 million Micro subcompacts in a ten-year venture with FSM, one of Poland's major car companies. To help recoup its investment, Fiat plans to export one-third of the Micros (estimated retail price: $6,000) to Western Europe...