Word: filtering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent morning, one of the school's eight instructors lectured on how to service an Everpure T-9 water filter, which cleans the water used in soft drinks. Students scribbled notes as furiously as if they were taking hamburger orders from a busload of Cub Scouts. Slides flashed across a giant screen detailing every movement of the hand required to maintain the filter. One student asked timidly: "How much charcoal do we put in it?" The instructor replied: "The bag is premeasured...
Neither player, of course, is an easy mark. Riggs has a number of strengths, including total concentration when he plays seriously. His slight deafness helps filter out distractions. He also claims to have an inner eye, a kind of instant pre-play that, he says, allows him to imagine every shot in his mind beforehand. "I've played Billie Jean a dozen times in my mind," he says. "Nothing she can do will be unexpected." A more tangible asset is his complete control over the racket. He can return any shot that he can reach. But, he admits...
While the walk-out continued, the WDA left ten filter operators on the job at all times so that there would be no interference in the public water system...
Philippines. Reports continue to filter out about clashes in the southernmost islands of the Philippines between 'Moslem insurgents' and government troops. Unless Saladin or Haroon al-Rashid have been reincarnated, something more than the importance of Mohammed is at issue here. Perhaps it is the dictatorial and repressive American-backed regime of Ferdinand Marcos, who will run for office next year in a special plebescite--which, if held, would violate the nation's constitution...
...Chinese fear that Russian interests may filter into the government that gains control, Salisbury said, and a friendship with the United States could buffer China from Russian influence...