Word: gears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hyatt promised that backers of Proposition 2 1/2, including many state business organizations, would gear up for an intensive advertising campaign by the end of the week...
...morning on a warm Saturday. New York City is asleep. But the crenellated red brick armory of the 101st Cavalry Squadron on Staten Island is busy. Hundreds of men in Army greens and black combat boots load trucks and Jeeps with weapons, tools, radios, medical gear. At 6:35 a.m., a 48-vehicle column rolls out, past the sleeping homes of Clove Lake Park, across the Goethals Bridge and into New Jersey. In twelve hours the 101st will reach Fort Drum on New York's border with Canada to begin its annual two-week summer training as scouts...
Never in history has a volcano exploded with such force before such an array of sophisticated monitoring instruments. The gear even includes a space satellite to measure particulate matter blown into the stratosphere. Yet in spite of all the detection capability, scientists have come away from the mountain basically with confirmations of what they already knew- primarily from observing volcanoes in Hawaii-rather than with any new and startling insights. Says Donald Peterson, the U.S.G.S scientist in charge on the scene: "Everything the mountain has done has been within the realm of our expectations...
...that everything else subsides. The rise and fall of temperature and of wind, the beginning and the end of the rain matter here in a way that is irrelevant elsewhere." Never mind that a few sentences later McPhee has returned to an exhaustive discussion of the latest in camping gear; for a moment, he has cornered hard to capture feeling...
...Medical Area, organizers for District 65 of the United Auto Workers will gear up this fall for a bid to represent clerical and technical workers in their dealings with Harvard. If history is a useful indicator, the University will stop at nothing to thwart the union's efforts...