In autumn, with the Clinton administration on its last lap, they swung into high gear.

There's nothing like a life-changing event to cause you to swing into high gear.

As Congress tries to fashion an economic stimulus package, corporate lobbyists are swinging into high gear.

With a release scheduled for early summer, the studio press agents swung into high gear early in 1951.

Consorting with truffles is status-symbol activity, and now it's swinging into high gear.

Immediately the club swung into high gear with the discordant music and the rowdy customers competing to be heard.

Scientists even plan to address the issue experimentally as Mars probes costing many billions of dollars swing into high gear.

In 1975, with the bicentennial of the start of the Revolutionary War, the series swung into high gear.

After a slow start, Mr. Kerry's campaign swung into high gear last week, focusing heavily on veterans.

The debate will take on added urgency in coming months because a nationwide cholesterol education campaign, coordinated by the Federal Government, is swinging into higher gear.

And as hip-hop has entered its fourth decade, the process of historical investigation and canon-making has swung into high gear.

As the Norfolk Festival swings into high gear, two separate subscription series begin this weekend, with similar mostly Mozart agendas.

But with the first-quarter confession season swinging into high gear in the next three weeks and earnings forecasts still declining, it's too soon to hope for that.

As a result, Mr. Gore and his campaign have swung into high gear to "activate the base," in campaign parlance, to get out the vote.

Now Clete was swinging into high gear again, this time with Battering Ram Shanahan.

In 1984, just as the partners were swinging into high gear, they attracted the attention of a Swiss financier named Tito Tettamanti.

The project will swing into high gear in March, crowned by an exhibition of Acheson's costumes on the lingerie floor and in the store's main windows.

Memmo used the years of Donato's reign to maneuver behind the scenes, swinging into high gear following Donato's death on December 25, 1612.

Now the analysis swung into high gear with the Follow Up Detection Device, known as FUDD.

A similar burst of bipartisan harmony will be necessary to get the bill through the Senate before the political campaign swings into high gear and makes meaningful legislation all but impossible.

The scheduled lunch between the two leaders will cap a campaign by the Lockheed Martin Corporation that began six years ago and swung into high gear under Mr. Bush.

If the request is granted by a Federal judge in Little Rock, Ark., Mr. Clinton could be forced to testify - just as his Presidential campaign swings into high gear.

If not always sustained, the choreography's ingenuity swings into high gear when the dancers themselves swing out from the bars of the frame house or clamber up and down from its schematic roof.

The work of data collection has already begun, but it won't swing into high gear until the Census Bureau releases detailed, town-by-town population statistics, which are not expected until mid-March at the earliest.

But some skeptics have been challenging the importance of cholesterol reduction from the start, and as the national effort to reduce cholesterol has swung into higher gear, so has the volume of questions and criticism.