Word: filteration
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Flicking the ash off his filter-tipped American cigarette, Soviet Poet Evgeny Evtushenko, 29, pondered the questions of West German newsmen on a visit to the free side of the Iron Curtain with his wife Galya, who has been translating Salinger into Russian. Spiffily decked out in the latest Russo-Italian style-bobtailed blue suit, pointy shoes, argyle socks and a seal-fur bow tie-the symbol of flaming Soviet youth and the "generation of the thaw," denied that "thaw" is the proper word. "I think the process is actually more like spring, sort of early spring with some cold...
Entomologists have long known that female cockroaches use perfume to advertise their nubility. Army chemists at Natick, Mass., once extracted a powerfully attractive substance from filter paper crawled over by virgin females, but it was mixed up with too many other materials to be analyzed successfully. The Beltsville system is better; the air passing through the cans carries the cockroach perfume to a flask cooled by Dry Ice. There the vapor condenses and is periodically collected. After an elaborate purification process, Dr. Yamamoto has saved up 12.2 milligrams (.0004 oz.) of pure attractant, equivalent to the perfume produced...
Before computers, the dozens of departments within a major corporation kept independent records, the essentials of which might filter up to top management with agonizing slowness. When computers first came along, all they did was to speed up the flow of information within departments. Sometimes, by generating too many new reports, they actually gummed up the works. Management information systems seek to feed current information from every department of a company into a central computer network which, after correlating progress in all areas, will feed back fresh instructions...
...research that turned the tide. Puttering in his factory laboratory, Rupert devised what he claims was the world's first king-size filter-tip cigarette. The new cigarette boosted Rembrandt sales so much that in 1953 Rupert bought out Rothman's South African operation. The following year he bought control of the British parent company...
Among smokers, men who smoke fewer cigarettes have a lower incidence of cancer; so, presumably, will those who filter the smoke and thus cut down the amount of tar they draw into their lungs...