Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tempted to abuse the law by forcing employees who want overtime pay to accept comp time instead. "In the real world, if your boss tells you to take time off instead of getting extra pay, you either do what you are told or you start packing your gear," warned Representative Joe Moakley, a Democrat from Massachusetts. Upon the bill's passage, Republican Representative Jennifer Dunn of Washington responded, "For too long parents have had to choose between work and spending time with their children. That's a tragedy." Although President Clinton previously endorsed extending optional time off to private workers...
...professors] pull it off very well for the first year" of the course, says Alisa N. Kendrick '97. "It's obvious they communicate and gear their lectures to work together and incorporate things from [the other professors' lectures...
Sophomore forward Chanel Wright has added 42 three-point shots on the year, and senior point guard Lori Gear adds consistency and ball control to the offense...
...doubt, the pro-and-con weighing, the pontificating and the chin pulling will now go into high gear. Wilmut will spawn more ethics conclaves than cloned sheep. No matter. There is nothing to stop cloning, not even of humans...
...leaders can't do anything until he's left the scene," says TIME News Service director Richard Hornik, a former Beijing bureau chief, who coordinated our reporting effort. "So China has been stuck in neutral for the past few years." Last week the country shifted back into gear...