Word: gears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...secretaries, cashiers, nurses and salesclerks, according to projections of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Manufacturing employment's share, meanwhile, is likely to hold steady. The decline in basic industries should be offset by gains in such growing fields as medical and dental instruments, computers and communications gear...
...bags of M & Ms candies. Levi Strauss will put clothes on all 700 U.S. athletes and coaches plus some 40,000 staffers at the Games, from Ueberroth down to the parking-lot attendants. IBM has lent 200 of its Personal Computers and 190 word processors, among other gear...
...chaos. The storm that was supposed to have died down still churned up waves four and five feet high, and the landing craft wallowed through them. White-capped waves slurped over the sides. Seasickness became epidemic. Drenched, shivering, scared and loaded down with almost 70 Ibs. of wet battle gear, they had to keep bailing...
...delegates for that district, making possible a big statewide delegate sweep. The image that Hart is trying to project-rugged and glamorous, unburdened by tradition, receptive to novel ideas-should play well among California voters, many of whom see themselves the same way. But Mickey Kantor, the high-gear manager of Mondale's California effort, asserts that his man will not lose the state, despite his Frostbelt starchiness. Says Kantor: "We're going to win here. The glitz won't bother Fritz...
...minstrels of medieval Europe, the moon was a kind of celestial junkyard. They consigned to lunar banishment a dolorous assortment of such earthly intangibles as broken vows, fruitless tears and misspent time. Today the moon is a repository of more substantial material: it harbors a pile of gear, left behind by Apollo astronauts, that includes one moon buggy, $5 million worth of camera equipment and two golf balls that Alan Shepard whacked with a makeshift six iron to unplayable lies in a boulder-strewed valley. Still, this lunar refuse is paltry by comparison with all of the man-made debris...