Word: gears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to the 31 Harvard students and recent graduates, the riders include two Cambridge High School students, two doctors, and one Tufts undergraduate. Driving alongside the group in a van--containing gear, clothing, and other belongings--are two other Harvard students and a minister. All the participants are volunteers...
...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 deafeningly hollow ring leaving me with the impression that certain kinds of success make failure look downright edifying by contrast...
...inspector general examined price increases from 1980 through 1982 for nearly 15,000 aircraft engine parts and discovered about 65% of the prices had risen by more than 50%; 4,000 items had ballooned by more than 500% and some by more than 1,000%. A gear-and-pinion assembly supplied by Bendix Corp. jumped from $31.59 to $546, a rise of 1,628%. A spare part from Britain's Rolls-Royce was marked up from $3.70 to $54.75, an increase of 1,380%. Inflation over this period...
...prosperous, suburban Stamford, Conn. Above the broad plate-glass window, a large painted sign read simply PERSIAN RUGS. But inside there were no customers looking at the dusty piles of carpets. Instead, behind a curtain in the rear of the shop, telex machines, shortwave radios and computerized communications gear hummed continuously. Business was brisk, and it had nothing to do with rugs. The shop was a front for the illegal sale of U.S.-made weapons and aircraft parts to the government of Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini...
...decision not to prolong the flight another day or so in hopes of homing in at Kennedy. They involved some brief, balky behavior by one of the shuttle's three auxiliary power units (APUs). The small engines provide the hydraulic pressure for operating the craft's landing gear, flap, braking rudder and other flight-control systems. The APUs have been troublesome on previous flights...