Word: fingering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...duplicate that miracle, Staffieri made a small slit in the esophagus of a laryngectomy patient. Then he flapped part of the esophageal wall over the top of the trachea, forming a valve linking windpipe and pharynx. To speak, the patient simply placed a finger over the external breathing hole in the neck. Exhaled from the lungs, air was forced through the internal esophageal slit, allowing the pharynx to vibrate and create sounds. But the valve could open only when air from the lungs forced it open. When food or liquid came down the esophagus, the valve remained closed...
Soon the rain stops, and the clouds begin swirling in an unfamiliar turmoil, deadly and full of force. They move faster, roiling and dipping over a wheatfield. It is now 7 p.m. Suddenly, 1 ,000 yds. away, a charcoal sky seems to extend a smoky finger that stabs down at the earth, then withdraws. "There it is!" shouts Moore, screeching to a halt. He and Moyer scramble out and hoist their cameras as the monstrous sky, churning and converging, forms a crooked funnel once, twice, half a dozen times. Each time the terrifying funnel snakes earthward and scratches the grassy...
...energy debate is turning into a finger-pointing fiasco. While trains and other forms of mass transit choke up with riders and driving in the U.S. declines for the first time in years, Americans go looking for scapegoats. Consumers accuse the oil industry of pushing up prices by holding back supplies. Oilmen blame Washington for snarling them in red tape and overregulation. Congress blames the White House for not providing effective leadership. The President blames the public for not believing that the peril is real...
...show some interest in such ideas, but it wants the money to come from President Carter's proposed windfall profits tax, and Congress could wind up deciding not to enact the levy at all. The truth is, when it comes to erratic policymaking, the U.S. need point the finger only at itself...
...Virginia Retail Dealers Association: "There has been some price gouging, perhaps, by the oil companies." The oil producers, in turn, blamed the problem on a shortage of crude, chiefly caused by cutbacks in pumping by the OPEC nations. Gulf Oil Corp. Chairman Jerry McAfee urged "that we avoid finger pointing and name calling that does nobody any good...