Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world's petroleum companies. As James Akins, director of the U.S. State Department's Office of Fuels and Energy, writes in the current issue of Foreign Affairs: "With the possible exception of Croesus, the world will never have seen anything quite like the wealth that is flowing and will continue to flow into the Persian Gulf...
...Anybody who knew anything about aerodynamics would have said, 'Forget it, it won't work,' " he grins. "Me, I never even heard of Bernoulli's principle." That dictum, upon which all conventional airfoils are based, says that the faster a gas or fluid flows, the less pressure it exerts. As an aircraft wing is thrust forward, the flow of air over the curved upper surface is faster than the flow past the flat underside. Thus there is more push from beneath the wing than on the upper surface, where pressure is reduced; that "lift" keeps planes...
...that he has somehow violated Bernoulli's principle. "Sorry, Bernoulli," he says, "but our airfoil just doesn't work that way." But Aerodynamicist Nicolaides gently points out that there is still a pressure differential between the top and bottom of the wing caused by differences in air flow, although he is not yet sure how this is achieved...
...flow of Italian artifacts converges on about 50 mediator! (middlemen), who make their arrangements primarily with dealers in Switzerland or Italy. Important pots and bronzes are smuggled across the Swiss border in car trunks or, if small enough, in air luggage. Once in Switzerland, the hot object can be "washed" (given a provenance, or certificate of origin) and exported legally to any country in the world. For every dollar a tombarolo makes, the mediatoro will stand to get $5-and the final dealer $20 or more...
These aides examined patients with the aid of a medical flow chart known as a "protocol," which solicits information from the patient about his symptoms and prescribes tests depending on what the information is. The protocols are explicit in order to minimize the amount of judgement required on the part of the aide...