In a sense, the foray by Google and Amazon into financing resembles the wave of loans made by big telecom and Internet gear makers to their customers in the late 1990s.
But at the chainwheel the small ring is low gear and the big ring is high.
It's been an awfully long time now to be out there with no life-saving gear, in big seas and in such temperatures.
And the scream of snowmobile engines assailed eardrums as 57 racers in colorful gear kicked up big spurts of sand as they gained speed to seemingly defy nature and head out onto the open water.
It was like watching Atlas gear up to hoist that big boulder we now live on.
It guaranteed that telecom startups could "co-locate" their new high-speed gear at the facilities of big, old phone companies.
Earnings season is swinging into high gear and today's big player is Google.
These folks come in with their big tractor-trailers full of music gear and stage equipment and all that other stuff--this is some thing I didn't learn in the cable business.
Hook-up the Razer Edge to the big screen with multiple gamepad controllers and Razer gear and tag team PC games with your friends for a complete home console experience.
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Put that attitude into philanthropic gear and it means they want to solve Big Problems.
Today the Big Oil consortium created to devise new deepwater oilwell containment gear announced that it has completed its new system and is ready to deploy it in the Gulf of Mexico.
Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima appears to be teasing a big Phantom Pain announcement possibly during the PlayStation meeting tomorrow.
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As the Duke, Piotr Beczala displays a big, beautiful tenor with great presence, but his singing has only one gear loud.
The Falcons went up a gear and Tom May popped a pass to Russell Winter and the big number eight surged away before slipping the ball to Parling to score in the corner, Wilkinson thumping over the conversion for a 10-7 lead.
"I sleep on the sidewalk for the garage sale every year, " gushes gear- junkie Allison Birchwood, 32, referring to REI's big biannual sale.
Let's get this out the way right here and now: to the best of our knowledge, Apple doesn't really provide pre-release units to accessories partners -- even the big ones -- to help them get their products out the door faster when new gear drops.
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Turns out, it was Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, a game starring Naked Snake (aka Big Boss) some years after the events of Peace Walker.
Unlike in the Gulf of Mexico, where big fields are produced by floating platforms tethered to the seafloor, in iceberg alley you need sturdier gear.
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The result is a compact unit with two Humvee-size primary wheels for one soldier or more and up to a 2, 000-pound pallet of gear, extending with today's technologies into also being a soldier's ready robot - big robot - to take on high risk tasks, scouting maneuvers, resupply or deception tactics.
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This would be bad for the big telecoms-equipment firms, such as Ericsson, Nokia-Siemens and Alcatel-Lucent, which sell the gear used in today's networks.
Police teams were dressed in snow gear Friday, holding the trigger guards on their assault-style rifles while scouring eight square miles near Big Bear Lake, a popular skiing area two hours east of Los Angeles.
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