Word: friction
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...getting a human into space is the easy part; it's getting them back that causes the real trouble. The friction of the atmosphere, combined with Earth's gravitational pull, creates an intense and deadly heat. The space shuttle solved this problem with millions of dollars' worth of tiles on its underbelly (although, as a shocked world saw last year, that system is not foolproof...
China's stepped-up efforts have already created some friction. Earlier this year ONGC Videsh, the overseas-investment arm of India's largest oil and gas producer, was on the verge of completing a deal for an 11% stake in a proven oil field in Sudan when China's CNPC swooped in with an offer reportedly 17% higher--and snatched the deal away. "The Chinese are definitely very aggressive in the price they are willing to pay," says R.S. Butola, managing director of ONGC Videsh. Beijing has demonstrated that it is willing to face down international pressure to protect...
Again, the parallels between Huyghe’s project and Corbusier’s experience at Harvard are germane. The result of a good deal of friction between architect and institution, the Carpenter Center, along with several of Sert’s own projects such as the Science Center and Peabody Terrace, ruffled enough conservative feathers that the University has since become less willing to engage in high-profile commissions involving cutting-edge architecture. In Huyghe’s film, playing opposite to the cherubic features of and jointed arms of Corbusier and Huyghe’s marionette likenesses...
...that a low Sunni turnout would undermine the legitimacy of any new government and dash prospects of a quick postelection pacification of the resistance. "If the Sunnis don't feel they have a stake in the national government," warns a Western diplomat, "they will be a constant source of friction within the political system." Failure to secure Sunni participation in the new government could drive more Sunnis into the arms of the insurgents, delaying a peaceful pullout of U.S. troops from Iraq. "If the Sunnis are not a big part of the next government," says Sadoun al-Dulame, executive director...
...lined up a vertical mark with predetermined stars to provide proper heading ... As Faith 7 blasted into the atmosphere, friction set up a curtain of ionization that knocked out communications ... [The astronaut] scored his bull's-eye landing off the ... carrier Kearsarge ... He was safe?he had done what his equipment could...