Word: gears
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Ironically, the race for the Democratic nomination has moved into high gear so quickly partly because of an effort to shorten the political season. Last year the party decided to give the states only four months, instead of five, to choose delegates to the Democratic Convention, and as a result many primaries and caucuses were moved up. In the past two elections, candidates had a month after the Iowa caucuses to regroup for the New Hampshire primary. But in 1984 New Hampshire follows Iowa by a week, and a week after that at least a dozen more states-the number...
...ally, including NATO countries, without specific permission from Jerusalem. Moreover, if the data led to the development of any new U.S. defense systems, Israel would share in their production as well as the profits. Finally, Sharon demanded full details on certain existing American weapons, including advanced communications gear...
During the 1950s, Bulgaria shifted into industrial gear. Today its industries account for nearly half of the gross national product, while agricultural output makes up only 18%. A Bulgarian firm called Balkancar is one of the world's largest producers of forklifts. Economic growth in 1982 was about 2.5%, one of the highest among the Soviet satellites. Moscow is both a customer and a supplier: it buys about half of Bulgaria's exports and provides 90% of its oil. Consumer prices are relatively high for a Soviet-bloc country ($2 per Ib. for pork, $200 for a small...
...just ahead of it. In 1937 he designed a quilted evening jacket of white satin that he filled with eider down. Salvador Dali called it the first soft sculpture (Was Claes Oldenburg listening?), and James himself thought his design had inspired the U.S. military when they needed heavy-weather gear. Indeed, James frequently thought that he was being knocked off, especially by the vulgarians on Seventh Avenue. Undoubtedly he was. No one, however, could reproduce his 1937 evening mantle made of pre-World War I ribbons or his grand ball gowns...
Despite its critics, the nationwide campaign to raise the legal drinking age is in high gear. It is likely to be bolstered by the results of an authoritative study, to be published next year by Duke University, that surveyed the 48 continental states from 1970 to 1977. It found that drunken-driving-related fatalities among 18-to 20-year-olds increased 7% when the legal drinking age was lowered from...