Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rancho Santa Fe area, the group appears to have rented two different crafts.) Thus Applewhite had enough assets to initiate the cult's last great recruitment drive, on New Year's Day 1994. An estate sale was held at the Escondido mansion, raising money to buy four vans and gear to tour the country...
...Dave, whatever happened to gear ratios? This new GM-speak can strike outsiders as numbingly programmatic. At GM's technical and design center in Warren, Michigan, for example, the walls are a marketspeak mural of arrows, block charts, one-word product descriptions and macro boxes of jargon like "needs target," "needs profile," "benefit focus" and "reason for being." Go inside GM's design studios, and its artists work under Brave New World banners exhorting them to remember what their 2000-era cars and trucks are supposed to represent. Flying above one such future vehicle...
...vaunted 2,000-man "opposing force." OPFOR had the home-turf advantage, with a 90% win record in this 20-sq.-mi. stretch of the Mojave Desert. But Oaks' EXFOR had a secret weapon: humvees and M-1 tanks crammed with enough computers and state-of-the-art communications gear to put every soldier inside the military equivalent of an America Online chat room, with instant access to grunts and commanders alike...
That is an intolerable loss of time, especially given the high prices the Army pays for its computer gear. The laptops range from $93,000 for a "hardened" military version to $11,000 for a supposedly off-the-shelf model. One of the systems used last week, the Hunter drone powered by a $53,000 motorcycle engine, has already been killed by the Pentagon for poor performance. In all, the Army spent $258 million outfitting EXFOR, the 1st Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division of Fort Hood, Texas...
...impressed. "We didn't even see them when they shot us," said Staff Sergeant David Kuusela, who commanded an armored personnel carrier during the battle. "We took a lot of losses today that we normally don't." But Kuusela added that EXFOR's yearlong preoccupation with mastering the new gear had allowed some of its combat skills to rust. "If their battlefield technique was a little better," he said, "they might have rolled...