Word: gears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marine calmly but sternly, pressing forward to expose the contradictions in North's answers. While some thought Liman may have been intimidated by North's popularity, others viewed the chief counsel's cross-examination as a cagey shift in strategy. Says one Liman associate: "By staying in low gear, he got more out of North in part of a day than ((House Counsel John Nields and George Van Cleve)) did in 2 1/2 days...
...trying to fend off a torrent of rocks and gas canisters thrown by the students. The protesters began beating the police, then confiscating shields, helmets and other equipment. As the police were finally escorted to safety by student leaders, the crowd set fire to two piles of the collected gear...
While Islamabad ponders Washington's counteroffer, questions have been raised about who will operate the planes' highly technical electronic gear. Buildings are being designed to house U.S. personnel at two Pakistani air bases, but in congressional hearings last month, Reagan Administration aides ruled out the participation of U.S. airmen or civilians...
...when the world's No. 1 computer maker begins summer shipments of four new models using the Intel chip. Once the machines get their full complement of software sometime next year, they are likely to set new performance standards. But customers no longer hold their breath for the latest gear with IBM's distinctive blue markings. Even though buyers knew for much of 1986 that IBM was readying the new line, "they needed new machines and were not going to wait around forever," says Bill Lempesis, a Dataquest analyst. While some settled for deeply discounted older IBM models, others turned...
...Crimson (9-4 overall, 3-2 Ivy League) never did get its offense--which contributed 18 goals in Saturday's rout of Holy Cross--in gear, scoring sporadically throughout the contest...