Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dressed in riot gear, the police officersbarreled through groups of students that hadsurrounded the building...
Fourteen hours after the protesters escorted the administrators out of the building, the president called in a police force of about 100 officers from local suburbs. They arrived at about 4 a.m., armed with riot gear and ready to use force...
...another smart guy (Robert Rubin) advising the President -- who's damn smart himself. All of this bodes well. But the stock market in the short term doesn't care about any of that. It cares mainly about interest rates. You can argue that with the economy finally in gear, commodity prices and labor costs will begin to edge up. (Could the Teamsters strike be a straw in the wind?) Then again, you can argue that with enormous global capacity, inflation (and thus interest rates) will stay in check...
...wish for relations with Vietnam. Anyone susceptible to the sentimental image of the U.S. and Vietnam as lion and lamb lying down together can be cured by a visit to the war museum in Saigon, where the propaganda about American atrocities is ham-handed and offensive, and where G.I. gear is sold at souvenir stands. A great deal of history stands between the U.S. and Vietnam, as between the U.S. and China. Ideology stands between us too. Communism is dead in both China and Vietnam, but authoritarianism thrives...
...have the Clipper Chip semiconductor device installed in most U.S. electronic equipment ((TECHNOLOGY, March 14)). Opponents of this move point out that it would allow the U.S. government to keep tabs on phone, fax and computer traffic, and so foreign consumers would not want to buy American-made electronic gear if the government could listen in. With the increasing reliance of the world on electronic devices, our privacy will shrink more and more. The Clinton Administration wants to take away our constitutional right to such privacy. Big Brother will be listening...