Word: gears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Veterans of the '60s march again as racial hostility in the U. S. seems to be increasing. -- A petty turf battle within the CIA may have triggered the Iran arms- for- hostages scandal. -- Congress and the White House gear up to put a new trade law on the books. -- A TIME correspondent lives on the streets of Philadelphia to report on the agony of the homeless...
...ignored him, slipped into gear and sped back east...
...fourth race, he continued with a roar. Never really threatened, Conner pulled off a "horizon job" -- meaning the leader is all but out of sight. The hard-pressed New Zealand had a rash of problems, from gear failures to a ripped mainsail, that left it limping in, a stunned 3:38 behind. "Disastrous," said Dickson. "Everything broke and went wrong." Conner ended the week needing only one victory to clinch the challenger's berth in the finals, while the dispirited Kiwis had to win three. If the draper succeeds, next week he will face either his old nemesis, Perth Millionaire...
Worried that the new funding levels might embarrass the President, the Administration prepared a number of elaborate statements to explain the cuts. It argued that massive infusions for capital purchases -- such as helicopters, surveillance equipment and laboratory gear -- need not be repeated each year and that funds for education and treatment should be "stretched out" over two years. The White House pointed out that although proposed funding was being reduced, total spending to fight drugs in 1988 will still be 2 1/2 times as large as in 1981, when it totaled $1.2 billion...
...Eastern violations became so numerous because each flight with a claimed maintenance problem counts separately. One Eastern plane flew five years before the airline repaired a landing-gear-assembly link that had been the subject of an FAA warning. Only when the gear failed on a landing at Norfolk, Va., was a fix made. FAA also cited Eastern for placing tape over a 4-in. crack in the leading edge of a horizontal stabilizer and making 156 flights in that condition. Most of the violations, however, appear to have involved the failure to document procedures that differed from standard practice...