Word: gears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though researchers at the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine warned this summer that using inversion gear could be dangerous for people with histories of hypertension, cardiovascular disease, glaucoma and several other ailments, sales have not been hurt much. Gravity Guidance expects its revenues to surge from $12 million in 1982 to at least $25 million this year. The success of the company's products has spawned several imitations, including a Japanese-made device called the Gravitator Inversion Gym, which sells...
...Soviets claimed that the fighter pilots lowered their landing gear and flashed landing lights to signal the jetliner to descend, but were ignored. The co-pilot later denied that any signals were given. In any event, Soviet commanders, fully aware that it was a commercial plane, gave the order to attack. One interceptor then fired two heat-seeking missiles. The second struck an engine on the 707 and blew a hole in the fuselage, killing two passengers and injuring 13. Crippled but still under power, the jet plunged from 35,000 ft. to 3,000 ft. before leveling...
...York City last week, visitors flocked to one of the largest displays of high-technology protection gear ever assembled. The vast and ear-splitting array was on view at the International Security Conference and Exposition. Among devices in the more-than-500-booth exhibit was a $2,000 alarm made by Texas-based Sennet Systems that is equipped with a computer-synthesized voice. When activated, the unit can phone a homeowner anywhere in the U.S. and use its 256-word vocabulary to alert him to the precise nature of a security problem. Linear Corp. of Inglewood, Calif., showed...
...Chicago building he owned, as he lovingly recounted the steps leading to their acquisition, and their costs. Some of the rooms, most notably a child's den, were dark and half-furnished. By the time dinner was served, my feet ached, the sycophants had shifted into high gear and the evening had acquired a deafening hollow fine, leaving me with the impression that certain kinds of success make failure look downright edifying by contrast...
What seems clear is that no adventurer, in his own mind, is a daredevil. Even the most extreme risk taker talks like an astronaut of safety gear, of weather carefully calculated, of redundant strengths to cushion failure. What really protects them, however, seems to be their abnormal awareness of how very much alive they are. "You know about accidents," says a rock-climber. "But it's always the guy next to you, never you." How could it be you? But this inspired state does not often last a lifetime...