The flurry of deals has slowed, but not the orders for high-tech imaging gear used by U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
Solving that problem was one small step for a tiny company called NanoRacks, which has carved out an unusual niche (and a monopoly, for now) adapting lab gear to the U.S. National Lab on the ISS. Since 2010 it has designed and built all 36 of the modular labs there.
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Preparations are expected to go into high gear shortly after the U.S. election.
Japan will import some of the gear wholesale from the U.S. Local contractors will develop other systems jointly within six years.
The crew will also troubleshoot -- and with some luck, fix -- the NASA communication gear attached to the U.S.-built Unity module.
So far this is mostly equipment and supplies shipped overseas for fish fanciers and wholesalers, and Qian Hu has invested in aquarium-gear providers in the U.K. and India.
It came as the U.S. is beginning to ship its military gear through Pakistani ports, preparing for the withdrawal of most U.S. forces at the end of next year.
It comes as the U.S. is beginning to ship its military gear through Pakistani ports, preparing for the withdrawal of most U.S. forces at the end of next year.
Egypt is now dependent upon U.S. gear to equip its armed forces.
Lincoln luxury brand has revived and updated the concept of push-button gear selection, last seen in the U.S. in the early 1960s.
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The Pentagon was gearing up to make huge investments in new satellites, communications links and other dot.com-type gear when 9-11 radically rearranged U.S. defense priorities.
Yet China and many export economies need the U.S. to kick into gear in order to provide a purchasing base, so they tolerate or even encourage quantitative easing.
By sales, Smith is half the size of U.S. rival Stryker, whose gear went into golfer Jack Nicklaus in 1999.
And nor is a kind of wistful isolationism where U.S. troops pack up their gear and come home, where bygones will be bygones and where al Qaeda won't follow.
The latest Beige Book confirms that the U.S. economy is stuck in second gear, as economist David Levy recently put it.
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Kia executives say that U.S. sales really went into high gear starting with the launch of the Kia Soul small hatchback in 2009.
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As the 2012 U.S. Presidential campaign kicks into high gear, candidates will spend a lot of time debating proposals to deal with the budget deficit.
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TUZLA, Bosnia Herzegovina (CNN) -- While the administration and Congress gear up for what promises to be a fierce debate on U.S. troop deployment in Bosnia, the city where the troops will begin their work is preparing for their arrival.
The beleaguered U.S.-Russia reset went into high gear in the fall of 2011.
It backed out of a plan to buy networking-gear maker 3Com in 2007 when the deal faced opposition form a U.S. security panel.
But he says his plan will kick into high gear once new vehicles start hitting showrooms this summer, especially in the U.S. market.
FORBES: Nissan readies a big rollout of new cars and trucks.
Just as the momentum behind U.S. energy sanctions against Iran shifted into high gear, Turkey and Brazil this week tried to downshift with a much ballyhooed nuclear-fuel swap deal.
Leaders coordinated actions to fend off the aftershocks of the U.S. and European financial crisis which went into high gear in the fall that year.
General Dynamics is installing HSS gear on Navy ships, including one over the captain's chair on the bridge of the U.S.S. Winston S. Churchill.
Best of all, thanks to the enormous investment the U.S. Navy and its counterparts have made in the ships, sensors, communication gear, and other infrastructure needed for sea based missile defenses, the costs of putting such a capability in place are a fraction of those associated with other alternatives.
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U.S. avalanche deaths climbed steeply after 1990, averaging 24 a year, as new gear became available for backcountry travel.
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