Word: gears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When nearly all the students have been matched, a process that runs till late July, the advisers erect a chart on a blackboard that lists all the rooms by size. When all the rooms have been filled, the advisers gear for another round of dealing as they try to fill their share of the Yard's rooms with a well-rounded group. Only at this last level can roommate groups be "handpicked by the senior adviser...
Even toting a shoulder bag, attache case or photographic gear can be risky...
While anti-draft groups in Washington and around the country began to gear up for activities during the two-week registration period. Carter repeated his warnings to the Soviet Union, from his January State of the Union address, when he first asked Congress to initiate peacetime registration...
...dean has to try to have some feel for when it's an auspicious moment to try to get an activity like that in gear. My impression is that most people agree with Al Sacks' timing," Michelman added...
...West. The standard Soviet turbodrill, for example, bores much more slowly than American equipment. It takes a Soviet team 14 months to dig down 10,000 ft.; U.S. drilling teams can reach that depth in 34 days. Seismic technology, essential for exploration, also lags far behind. The best Soviet gear probes down to 7,000 ft.; U.S. equipment is more accurate and goes down to at least 10,000 ft. Given the state of their industry, says Meyerhoff, "there is simply no way that the Soviets are going to meet their crude oil requirements...