With heavy gear on their backs, and air support overhead, they made their way single file down a rocky ridge crest, along terrain so steep that sliding was sometimes easier than walking.
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Among the new measures proposed are the phasing out of bottom trawls, the heavy gear that scrapes material from the bottom of the sea - fish, coral and anything else in its way.
Heavy lifting gear is now being used to raise slabs of concrete at the Rana Plaza garment factory, where at least 380 died after Wednesday's collapse.
Teams from the army, the fire service and border guards are still working around the clock at the site to find survivors, using heavy lifting gear, tools and their bare hands.
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Drucker cited the case of companies making heavy electrical switching gear for powerhouses and transformer stations.
Rescue co-ordinators said that work with heavy-lifting gear would be done carefully to avoid further collapses and to protect bodies trapped under the debris as much as possible.
But in my experience, the real gear geeks are heavy into microphones, a mysterious world of invisible "pick-up patterns" and model names that read like alphabet soup.
Nascar's finances may be stalling, but top drivers' paychecks pulled ahead last year thanks to large multiyear sponsorship deals and heavy spending on apparel and gear by fans.
These range from miners, such as Canada's UEX, to suppliers of turbines and other plant gear (Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Russia's United Heavy Machinery) to the all-purpose giants (Cameco and Areva).
Here, you'd like something powerful, with agile maneuver, a compact and robust size half-way between the foot soldier and his Humvee or truck, bringing support of heavy firepower, a level of armor, robotics and gear into the alleys - something that will team in numbers to move and cover dismounted soldiers and each other, just as our foot soldiers do for each other everyday.
Last week Broadcom, which produces the brains for set-top boxes and other online gear, was listed on the Nasdaq, the tech-heavy American stockmarket.
They shed all the heavy stuff and carry with them the things they need: ammunition, communications, water, food, and chemical gear.
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