Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...race for a new three-year auto contract shifted into high gear last week, when the United Auto Workers union chose Ford, currently the most labor-friendly of Detroit's Big Three employers, as the company it will bargain with first. The contract covering 400,000 autoworkers at the Big Three manufacturers expires this Saturday. The U.A.W. always zeroes in on one company in divide-and-conquer fashion, but in a break with four decades of tradition, the union has toned down its normally strident rhetoric and declined to set a strike deadline. Industry watchers expect the U.A.W. and Ford...
Harvard has put together a difficult non-conference schedule, taking on the likes of Utah State and nationally-ranked Rhode Island in the New England Invitational, which starts the weekend of September 13. The Ivy League schedule kicks into gear in October 4 with a game against Dartmouth...
Harvard has put together a difficult non-conference schedule, taking on the likes of Utah State and nationally-ranked Rhode Island in the New England Invitational, which starts the weekend of September 13. The Ivy League schedule kicks into gear in October with a game against Dartmouth October...
...growth of stores such as R.E.I. and other purveyors of high-tech outdoor gear arises from technological advances that have spawned a host of new synthetic fabrics and materials. These innovations are unprecedentedly light and durable, not to mention increasingly resistant to heat and cold. Even better, especially from the seller's standpoint, the rapid improvements can make relatively new equipment seem outmoded. Tents, once made of canvas or nylon, are now composed of fiber glass and aluminum, materials that have shaved a pound and a half from the average tent weight in the past five years. Ranging in price...
...dash any notion you had of cooking over a fire, or snacking on trail mix. Liquid-fuel stoves with electronic ignitions have made matches passe; contraptions like the Camp Kitchen from Coleman, the Kansas-based gear purveyor, allow any hiker to play Martha Stewart. The portable kitchen weighs only 35 lbs. and yet contains 6 ft. of counter space, a sink, stove space, storage shelves, a paper-towel rack, a set of backgammon and a set of checkers. It all fits in a suitcase-size carrier. At $199 the movable diner is one of the company's best sellers...