Word: gears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...voyage, a requirement that posed no problem to Frenchman Philippe Jeantot, who has already logged 25,000 solo miles. The weeks before the start were spent stocking provisions and spare parts, checking out radios (each sailor will be required to report his position weekly), and adjusting the self-steering gear that will allow captains a few hours' sleep...
...electric guitar. She is outraged by the doctor-nurse scene, convinced that Miles has written it to degrade women: "Ever since I got into serious liberation, you been takin' the mickey. I got your number, mate. You're the original pig. Numero Uno." Despite the leather gear, dyed hair and garish makeup, Miles recognizes this apparition as an old, inspiring friend. She is Erato, the classical Muse of lyric poetry and, by historical default, of fiction as well...
...leaks flow through known, but hard-to-plug, channels. Highly paid operatives may buy equipment from unwitting U.S. firms and ship it to Communist countries through foreign shell companies. Or thieves with no direct interest in espionage may steal advanced electronic gear from manufacturers and sell it to underground dealers in Southern California. They, in turn, offer it to all comers, with no questions asked. In one ingenious act of deception, Soviet engineers touring an aircraft plant reportedly wore sticky shoes that picked up metal filings that could later be analyzed...
Security-minded companies have added their own panoply of defensive measures. Many high-technology firms have installed electronic gear that rivals their own products in sophistication. Ultrasonic motion detectors emit high-frequency sound waves that can instantly sense intruders. Invisible infrared beams of light set off alarms as they are broken. Rolm Corp., a Silicon Valley computer manufacturer, uses an electronic control room to monitor its extensive protection system...
Fears about the security of corporate secrets have created a ready market for novel mechanisms designed to foil industrial espionage, kidnapings or other such capers. Perhaps the most advanced product currently available is an attache case whose electronic gear rivals that found in an AWACS plane. Known as the Secret $26,000. Briefcase, it weighs 22 lbs. fully loaded and costs...