Word: filtering
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SZTYKIEL The money allocated two to three years ago is just starting to filter down to the states where they're starting to spend it on fire trucks. But the same demographics that drive the RV business drive the ambulance industry. Eleven thousand Americans turn 50 every day. They're entering the core buying market for RVs. But this also means more of us are taking rides in ambulances...
...influence of microgravity on plant growth. Frog eggs were fertilized to determine if low gravity alters the development of organs responsible for balance. At one point a fruit fly escaped from its container and was quickly dubbed Willy. Later the astronauts found the ill-fated drosophila dead in a filter. Tongue in cheek, officials at Oberpfaffenhofen handed out an obituary for "our bold little astronaut...
...Fruhan ’03, back on campus for the event in his former House, said, “I thought the presentation gave a great perspective to the war. It’s valuable to see people give a first-hand account of the war without the filter of traditional media...
...plausible that Ebbers would not have detected accounting fraud on such a massive scale right under his nose. As the jury heard, this was a man so obsessed with saving a buck that he sniffed out $18,000 in cost overruns in a $3 billion budget, fretted about coffee-filter expenses and wanted the bottled-water machine filled with tap water. Penny pinching like that had made him a cult hero on Wall Street--and an improbable dupe to a jury...
...cynical national media may talk about polls showing the President losing support for his program or quote influential members of his own party backing away from the plan, but the local media covers the event with less analysis. At the White House they call it getting around the "filter...