Surgeons liken it to putting a tractor-trailer into reverse gear and swerving flawlessly through a wicked S-curve.

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The RAIB found the locomotive changed direction because its screw reverser moved from reverse gear to forward gear.

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British politicians like to boast "they have no reverse gear", but in Brazil, going backwards is a destination in its own right.

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Ford's first attempt at a genuine four-wheel vehicle, which he called the Quadricycle, used valves adapted from a steam engine and didn't have a reverse gear.

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The effect of this tardiness has been to put physical activity in reverse gear compared with population trends and advances in tobacco and alcohol control and diet.

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The basic gear order must be Park, Reverse, Neutral, Drive, and a low gear, usually designated with an L. The movement to Drive from Neutral must be a clockwise motion on a column mounted shifter.

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After the Librarian of Congress declared that unlocking a cellphone violated copyright law under the DMCA (that's Digital Millennium Copyright Act) activists kicked into high gear in an attempt to prevent or reverse the decision.

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Some of this territory was covered by Mr. Crowley and internist Henry S. Lodge in their previous two "Younger Next Year" books, which focused on exercise as an elixir of youth that can reverse aging processes inside cells and spawned a website, DVDs, workout gear and Aspen retreats.

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An idle gear, picked up for 45 cents on Canal Street, allowed him to make reverse carriages for right-to-left Arabic and Hebrew.

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