Word: filtering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rival the meteoric rise of Disini, a Marcos buddy whose wife is a cousin of Imelda's and former governess to the First Couple's three children. In the past six years, Disini has transformed an otherwise undistinguished company, Herdis Management & Investment Corp., from a small cigarette-filter manufacturing plant into a conglomerate empire of 33 separate enterprises with assets totaling about $200 million. These firms, among other things, manufacture textiles, explore for oil and run charter air flights. Recently Disini acquired the Philippine agency for Caterpillar construction equipment and a large block of shares in the Philippine...
Herdis' extraordinary expansion seems in large part to be the result of favored treatment by Philippine officials. Not only has Disini received government guarantees for his loans-totaling $160 million-but favorable tariff treatment has also permitted his cigarette-filter business to become a near monopoly...
...blood pumped from the heart flows to the kidneys for filtration and removal of wastes. Exercise causes the body to shunt more blood to the muscles, reducing the flow to the kidneys by as much as 50%. But the kidneys continue to work at the same rate and apparently filter more protein out of a smaller volume of blood. Exercise also seems to cause constriction of the efferent arterioles, the vessels that lead out of the glomeruli, the kidney's filtration units. The result is a backup that increases pressure in the glomeruli and makes them more permeable, allowing...
...when the results began to filter out last week, they proved truly alarming. In Duval County, which includes Jacksonville, 45% of the juniors failed the math section and 14% could not handle the reading and grammar part. Only 6% of the juniors at Jacksonville's overwhelmingly black Stanton High School passed the math section...
...invitation. In terms of formal arrangement, it would be hard to imagine a more organized image than this: the chair could not be shifted an inch, or the angle of the girl's legs a degree, without some loss. But it is also a strangely equivocal picture, a filter of memory, dream and half-sublimated desire, without a trace of sentimentality. It is not a "modern" painting. But no account of modern art that leaves out its author can make much sense...