Braking, gear-shifting and steering commands in the lead truck would be beamed via a wireless connection called an electronic tow-bar to the trailing vehicles.

ECONOMIST: MONITOR

Shifting into high gear, Saint studied voter files, knocked on doors, asked folks whether they were for or against the project and why.

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That means rewarding them for shifting up a gear from making incremental improvements to their existing products, to coming up with radical innovations that rewrite the market rules.

ECONOMIST: INNOVATION

Electric vehicles are shifting into high gear, from prototypes and concept cars to vehicles that can have a meaningful impact on reducing greenhouse gasses and slowing the environmental impact of global warming.

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Is growth merely shifting down a gear.

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The world economy is shifting to a lower gear, according to World Trade Organization.

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So the full frontal assault on ringtone huckster purveyor Jamster is shifting into high-gear, at least in the UK, where joyous British citizens will no longer be subjected to those awful Crazy Frog jingles until after 9 P.

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While it works well and includes a manual gear-select mode, a proper manual gearbox or a quicker-shifting dual-clutch automated manual transmission would afford livelier performance.

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