Word: gears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point. Japan's powerful Ministry of International Trade and Industry is funding a $59 million CAM development effort, involving 20 of the nation's leading industrial and high-technology firms, to design, build and operate a totally computer-controlled factory producing, among other things, specialized engines and gear boxes, with few if any human employees. The plant is scheduled to go into operation early...
...smaller shows gear up to start, the Loeb's immense and detailed Threepenny Opera has only one weekend left to run. After surviving the sudden incapacitation of John Langdon, cast as J.J. Peachum, with the masterful pinchhitting aid of Ernest Kerns, Threepenny arrives on the stage with, if not quite a unified impact, certainly enough brilliant elements to satisfy any viewer...
...down prisoners for weapons. More than 100 assorted shivs and shanks (rodlike weapons often shaped from mop-bucket handles), as well as revolvers, have been seized. A sniper in one of the guard towers has shoot-to-kill orders. A trailer van bulging with shotguns, tear gas and riot gear waits outside the prison walls...
Heath's blast was echoed by 13 fresh men Tory M.P.s who are known as the "Blue Chips" because of their predominantly aristocratic backgrounds. They distributed a pamphlet titled Changing Gear: What the Government Should Do Next, in which they called for a watering down of Thatcher's monetarism. Far more ominous for the Prime Minister was the lineup of Establishment Tories who are now decrying her economic policies and lack of compassion. Calling monetarism "the uncontrollable in pursuit of the indefinable," Sir Ian Gilmour, who was Deputy Foreign Secretary until Thatcher purged her Cabinet of dissidents last...
...course, there have been excuses, and one or two of them may have been justified. Last year, for instance, the Tigers surprised the heavily-favored Crimson by showing up with flippers and snorkel gear and then moving the game to the lost continent of Atlantis, hidden somewhere on the Princeton campus. Harvard lost the nautical tussle, 7-3, in a game that featured some really good punting...