Three years ago BII shifted gear.

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Immediately, India's fielding shifted gear.

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But the constant game of cat-and-mouse had taken too much out of him to reply when Kirui shifted into high gear at the end.

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So the machinery of nation-building has now shifted into high gear.

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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.

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They shifted into high gear in 1997 by taking the firm public as a REIT, a corporation that need not pay any corporate taxes so long as it sends out 90% of its profit to shareholders as dividends.

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Indeed, the market has been reflecting the notion that the economic recovery has slowed and shifted to a lower gear.

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At one point, one of the police officers shifted his cruiser into gear as a diversionary tactic, and it rolled toward the two shooters.

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Another is that if you take enough load off of an air shifted Liberty transmission, it can pop out of gear into neutral, and the run is done.

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