So, they got the frames from these big bikes, put them together with the gears from the racing bikes, got the brakes from motorcycles, and sort of mixed and matched various ingredients.

Without determined efforts at political progress and unity, however, it will remain stuck in neutral and could slip into reverse.

Because people at the top of the chain, people like you, I think, are starting to realize that there's too much speed in the system, there's too much busyness, and it's time to find, or get back to that lost art of shifting gears.

Trade distorting subsidies, high import tariffs, and export restrictions act as sand in the gears of the transmission belt and make it more difficult and expensive to bring food to the market and thus to the family table.

Description Because water is incompressible, the valve gear of water engines is more complicated than that used in steam engines, and some water engines even had a small secondary engine solely to power the operation of their valves.

The subsidies are too small and too complicated to inspire capital outlays for expensive specialized equipment, including jack up barges, heavy lift cranes, pneumatic hammers for pounding the foundations into the sea bed, and high strength gearboxes that will not corrode in humid, salty air.