Word: flows
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...mammals, like the porpoise and seal, which can remain submerged without breathing for periods of 20 minutes or more. And, confirms Nemiroff, the same automatic response works in humans as well. Triggered by held breath and cold water on the face, the diving reflex slows the heartbeat and the flow of blood to the skin, muscles and other tissues that are relatively resistant to damage from oxygen deprivation. At the same time, it sends the body's remaining oxygenated blood to the heart and to the brain, whose cells will indeed begin to die after about four minutes without...
...tank under the house; every year a truck pumps out the refuse. Others have attached fiberglass tanks full of compressed air to cut down on the number of gallons of water required to flush a toilet. People are also affixing gadgets to their showers and faucets to decrease the flow. Many California families are voluntarily bathing in six gallons of water or less, then using it to water plants or wipe off dirty windows. Some are changing sheets only once every ten days to reduce the need for laundry water. A few zealots are giving up ice cubes in their...
Decorous sexual pursuit, though, is merely an excuse for more than the usual typhoon of Shavian ideas, the torrential flow of blindingly bright words. Shaw steadily sounds his pet themes: the chicanery of politics, the corruptive power of money, the degrading stench of poverty, the servile dependencies of marriage and family, the charlatanism of medicine, the fossilization of learning, the tyranny of the state, the stupidity of the military and the bigoted, sanctimonious zeal of the church. And ever and always, the eternal humbuggery of the English, used and overused by Shaw for comic relief and casual abuse...
...Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., a consortium of eight oil companies, hopes to rebuild the station by mid-September, after which cold weather will make repairs virtually impossible. Otherwise, it would have to delay for another ten months the goal of increasing the pipeline's flow to its initial capacity of 1.2 million bbl. per day. That could cause financial problems for the state of Alaska; it has been counting on taxes from the pipeline, which are determined by the amount of oil actually moved, to finance 60% of its $1 billion current budget...
...flow of new investment funds from overseas has begun to take definite patterns. The Southeast has been getting the biggest share of corporate money, partly because foreign manufacturers are attracted by the region's relatively low labor costs and non union tradition, and partly because state and local governments there have aggressively pursued them with tax incentives and other attractions...