Word: gears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...growing role of television in providing the public with news of political campaigns and elections led to the meeting. Linsky said that not only do politicians gear their campaigns more toward the presence of television, but the networks can actually affect the outcome of elections...
...campaign for reelection in high gear, Gov. Edward J. King files multimillion dollar libel suits against every magazine and newspaper in the state. "Anything they print about me hurts me," King says adding that he has asked the State Supreme Court to enforce a gag order regarding his activities and statements on all Bay State journalists...
...what it considered a poor year in 1981, with growth of 3.3%. In 1982 the Japanese economy is expected to expand at about the same rate. Inflation, meanwhile is projected to stay at about the current 4%. Thanks to its heavy exports of autos, electronics and other high-technology gear, Japan last year piled up a trade surplus of about $23 billion, as compared with just $2 billion...
...quarters about the very existence of a hit-team plot, the White House was taking no chances. Security around the President, which had been notably increased since the assassination attempt by John Hinckley last March, was strengthened still more. Air Force One, for example, was equipped with sophisticated electronic gear that would allow its pilot to evade a missile attack, and Reagan sometimes rode in unmarked cars instead of his official limousine. At other times, presidential motorcades featured two similar limousines, both with flags flying...
...food processing. Even high-technology firms, which once thought themselves to be immune from recession, are starting to feel squeezed. Two weeks ago, Nixdorf Computer of Waltham, Mass., let go 250 employees, or 11% of its work force. The division of Exxon that makes computerized typewriters and other office gear announced last week that it was dismissing a fifth of its employees and shutting down a factory in Orlando...