Word: gears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ozmeni has another, more singular, reason for running: He likes going out in "those reflecting clothes which my wife insists I wear lest she be widowed. That's part of the fun, isn't it, wearing all that strange gear. It's like being part of a carnival or festival or something." He especially enjoys blinking his flashlight at oncoming cars to remind drivers to dim their headlights...
...first 20 days in October, Chrysler's sales were up 10% over the same period in 1981. Nonetheless, sales so far in 1982 are still running 39% less than in 1978, the last good year for the auto industry. Unless business shifts into a higher gear soon, Chrysler will remain hard-pressed to satisfy its disgruntled work force...
...seemed like just the sort of sales coup that a fast-tracking high-tech firm would want to talk up. Thus when Andrew Corp. of Orland Park, Ill., which makes sophisticated telecommunications gear, managed to land a $3.5 million contract to supply microwave antennas to a French firm, company officials preened publicly at their achievement. The customer, Thomson-CSF, would be using the equipment to help establish a complex communications network that would serve much of the Yamal region of Soviet Siberia, where the U.S.S.R.'s vast 3,700-mile natural gas pipeline to Western Europe would originate. Then...
None of these safety features is prohibitively expensive. Aluminum seals cost 2? apiece at most, and the machine used to attach them to bottles sells for only $9,000. But it could be three or four months before the drug industry can gear up to produce new containers. Even then, as FDA Commissioner Hayes notes, none of the methods is foolproof. Packaging experts admit, for example, that a careful criminal with a razor blade and a bit of glue could remove and replace an aluminum seal seemingly intact...
...base and the surrounding waters. Washington believes that in the event of war the Soviets would try to invade Norway through Sweden, hoping to control the northern Atlantic sea lanes. Submarines can better chart the underwater conditions than the Soviets' sophisticated trawlers, which are laden with electronic surveillance gear...