Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sight. Sure. Whether they can get you there in actuality is not important. Even if they are filling-looseners that drive like trucks on washboarded gravel roads, which most of them do, they are unbeatable fantasy machines. Land Rover, which encourages its salespeople to come to work in safari gear, admits its best U.S. customers live within 150 miles of Manhattan. Lincoln, in planning to bring out its Mountaineer model this year, found that only 15% to 18% of utility-vehicle owners ever used their machines to tow or haul anything. And as for off-road rowdiness, "They look...
Marcy didn't rest on his euphoria. He and Butler went into high gear, determined to be at least the second team to find planets around a sunlike star. They begged telescope time from their colleagues and borrowed more than $100,000 worth of computer equipment to crunch gigabytes' worth of data from observations stretching back over eight years. "We knew," says Butler, "that we could get scooped again and again by the Swiss team...
...fell short of our go, against Yale," Durkin said, "But we're shooting for Princeton and the Easterns. The nature of our training changes in January and February, where we'll be able to better gear up for races...
...Federal Trade Commission hinted at a crackdown on the often fanciful tar and nicotine levels printed on cigarette packs. Through it all, though, one franchise stays strong: Marlboro. The brand accounts for 30% of the world cigarette market. It also anchors a lucrative mail business peddling burly outdoor gear--pocket knives, flashlights, Weber grills and every form of jacket--with the familiar logo. "If we were a mail-order company like L.L. Bean," says Ellen Merlo, a Philip Morris executive, "we'd be the third largest in the country...
...month after opening its doors, Loker Commons will swing into full gear on January 4 with performances by students, free food samples and a sweepstakes featuring prizes such as an espresso machine...