Word: gears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this perennially Democratic district, many observers call the race as good as over on the day of the state primary. This means that the candidates must gear their final push to a September, rather than a November, election. And it means they can't afford to slow down during the summer...
...that highest caliber of architectural film settings, the glass dome does provide a nice backdrop for the flying bullets, which shatter the ubiquitous glass windows, the bodies, which fall down escalators and the adventurous heros, who scall the walls of the building with mountain-climbing gear galore...
...payloads into space, at an estimated cost of $3,000 per lb. In the first year of deployment of a relatively primitive Star Wars system, according to Lieut. Colonel Louis Kouts, Air Force deputy for space plans and policy, some 2.6 million lbs. of SDI weapons, sensors and other gear would have to be rocketed up. That, says Kouts, would grow to 4.4 million lbs. annually around the year 2000, as more exotic weapons are put in orbit...
...merchant ships, which, according to a study by the National Academy of Sciences, dump at least 6.6 million tons of trash overboard every year. Some 639,000 plastic containers and bags are tossed into the oceans every day. Commercial fishermen are also major offenders. Estimates of the plastic fishing gear lost or discarded at sea every year range as high as 150,000 tons. Boaters and beachgoers add to the marine litter with six-pack yokes, picnic utensils, sandwich bags and Styrofoam cups. Cities and industries discharging waste directly into the water or dumping it at sea are also...
...gone into tax shelters. Automakers might suffer a bit because car loans would no longer be deductible, but could expect to benefit from the accompanying tax cut that puts more money into consumer pockets. Farmers would mourn the loss of the investment tax credit for buying tractors and other gear, yet would no longer face competition from tax-sheltered agricultural ventures, like cattle-breeding partnerships, that were designed to operate at a loss...