Word: gears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...upper floors. The scholarly machinery will continue humming as it has for a generation now. As Cross points out, scholars don't need display cases; they have been getting along perfectly well with the collection in the basement all this time. Without an attraction like "Danzig" and the high-gear publicity that accompanied it, will the general public bother to stop in for a look...
After the shuttle's main wheels touched the chalky ground, its nose suddenly veered up, almost as if it were about to take off again. Mission controllers had a brief, horrifying vision of the nose gear thudding back down on the hard desert floor and collapsing under the jolt. But Lousma gently leveled the ship off and let it roll out to a halt. Initially, NASA officials speculated that Columbia's lurching might have been caused by an unexpected gust of wind. But later they insisted that Lousma had eased the stick back, probably to slow the ship...
...greatest pressure in all likelihood will fall on precisely those industries (military aerospace, microelectronics) that are already running near capacity. Later in the decade, as the buildup moves into high gear, the resulting resources squeeze could cause severe shortages of everything from strategic materials such as titanium and graphite to sophisticated specialty machinery and, especially, skilled manpower...
...drug-gear limits...
Only in Alaska may a person possess a small amount of marijuana. Yet almost anywhere in the nation it is possible to find stores selling pipes and other gear with which to enjoy the illicit weed. Called head shops ("head" is slang for a frequent drug user), they number about 15,000 and do an estimated $2 billion in annual business. But after an 8-to-0 U.S. Supreme Court ruling last week, high times could turn into hard times...