Word: equipment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speaking of investing, with any luck the athletic department will take this perfect opportunity to equip Soldiers Field with a press box of the new, modern type--maybe model it after the Astrodome. That would be an investment in good publicity, because comfortable, well-fed reporters will surely make the Brian Buckley's of the future look better in the papers the next...
...standards. But they did revoke some classic examples of costly and questionable bureaucratic rulemaking. For example, the introduction of airbags or automatic seat belts, which was to have been started with some 1982 full-size models, has been put off for at least a year. The requirement to equip cars with dashboard gauges that tell drivers when their tires are underinflated was eliminated. The Reagan Administration also modified the regulation requiring bumpers to withstand crashes at speeds of up to 5 m.p.h. without a dent...
Listen, mes chers. Before you leave Paris for I'Amérique on your honeymoon it is absolutely essential that you equip yourselves with the new Guide to New York by Henri Gault and Christian Millau. There is no other comparable introduction to New York and les New-Yorkais, certainly not in French (and it's available only in French). With its information on hotels, restaurants, theaters, shopping, museums, la night life, even transportation, it will be as valuable to you as your traveler's checks. The book also contains many sage observations about the habits-some...
...Army formalized its 50-year relationship with the University through a contract which served as a model for the other services as well. The army agreed to staff and equip a Department of Military Science at no cost to the University, and Harvard pledged in return to keep the department as an integral academic and administrative department of the institution," and to provide the necessary rooms, office equipment and storage space...
...make matters still worse, New York has been facing a congressional mandate to equip subway stations and buses for the handicapped. The MTA estimates that this would cost $1.4 billion over the next 30 years, plus $100 million a year in operating funds. The Reagan Administration may relent and allow New York to provide special but separate facilities for the handicapped...