Word: winches
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...might buy to enhance his pulling power. Built in 1975, this Mercedes SL 350 convertible is a little rusty here and there. The soft top takes years of practice to manipulate into position and the optional hard top has to be lowered on or lifted off with a hefty winch. Painted a delicate golden color called Champagne, the car is a thing of beauty to me. And it promised to be a joy forever, as it sailed through its annual safety checks year after year...
...cause of the holdup: an army truck lying mangled in a roadside ditch, another victim, said one of the hundreds of onlookers, of the treacherous narrow and winding roads in this northeast corner of the country. Up ahead, soldiers were hammering steel pins into the hard earth to winch the wrecked vehicle up onto the road. The scene was chaotic. A few cars had managed to wend their way through the crush of traffic and were trying to slide under the low-slung metal cable tethered to the truck in the ditch. One, an SUV, was a bit too high...
...stick," a crucial device which beeps a certain way if a power line is live. Within a few blocks they encounter the first set of fallen trees that will have to be moved. Bond hauls out a plus-sized Stihl chainsaw while his partners ready the winch and help move the logs...
...latching hook on the end to snag the parafoil. The hook will then detach from the pole, although it will still be connected by a cable. At that point a pyrotechnic blast will fire a pin across the mouth of the hook, sealing it around the cable; finally, a winch will spool the cable out a bit, reducing the jolt on the helicopter. "It's a smooth transition in the mid-air retrieval," says Brian Johnson, the payload master aboard the chopper...
...Chinese companies are ground zero in the crackdown. At a state-run winch factory in Beijing, workers still follow the communist tradition of group exercises every morning at 10. Falun Gong practitioners once conducted their own meditation sessions to musical accompaniment in the factory yard. Then came the Beijing protest two years ago. Days later, managers drew up lists of practitioners. They fired those who attended any demonstrations, including three in a workshop run by a foreman surnamed Lai. Today, Lai is responsible for watching the several practitioners who remain on the job. If any of them protest, he says...