Word: flows
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...dilute his control of News Corp., Murdoch finances most of his acquisitions through the sale of assets and by borrowing. The company's current debt is $4.7 billion, and annual interest payments amount to more than $600 million. But Murdoch's publishing ventures generate a large enough cash flow -- $1.2 billion last year -- to cover the interest payments. Murdoch was one of the first to recognize that media companies, which are traditionally asset poor but cash rich, have been tremendously undervalued by the market, observes Analyst Tony Pennie of James Capel, a London-based investment firm. Says he: "That...
Just a fraction of a second before Discovery's three main engines were to ignite for a critical 20-second test firing last week, a computer detected a problem with a valve that regulates flow in cooling lines; the computer aborted the test. That was the fifth postponement of the engine test in the past two weeks. The latest delay may cause the agency to further set back its launch date, now scheduled for mid-September, by as much as a week. While John ; Talone, who manages work flow on the Discovery, believes a September date is still realistic, some...
...will require displacement of more than 1 million cu. yds. of sediment, with unknown ecological consequences. Similarly, natural events such as hurricanes can bestir pollutants from the sediment. The estuarine environment also changes when the balance of freshwater and salt water is disturbed. Upstream dams, for example, diminish the flow of freshwater into estuaries; so do droughts. On the other hand, rainstorms can cause an excess of freshwater runoff from the land...
This time Bentsen cut a wider swath in Washington. In the days before economist chic, he quickly established himself as the Senator with the numbers. His office was hung with spreadsheets and flow charts. In a world of financial illiterates, he became known as a man of probing analysis and computer-chip memory who actually knew how to wend intricate tax breaks for the oil and real estate industries through Congress...
...spend alot of time with that exhibit showing the kids which sponge floats faster, a dry one or a wet one, and which channel will flow in which direction," says another member of the museum staff. "We're teaching them about physics without actually using that word. They don't really know they are learning...