Word: roading
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...cars, now occupies a sleek, 88,000 sq. ft. (8,200 sq m), purpose-built site in Berkshire, a one-hour drive west of London. Xtrac sells its lightweight, high-strength components to the majority of teams competing in Formula One, motor racing's blue-ribbon championship. But the road ahead suddenly seems a lot bumpier. With Formula One teams racing to cut costs amid the economic downturn, Xtrac is selling fewer gearbox parts this year. Cushioned by its interests outside Formula One, Xtrac's future is hardly threatened, but, says technical director Adrian Moore, "any reduction in business makes...
...couple of hours up the road, in a non-descript industrial estate, Pi Research develops software to run wind-tunnel tests, and collects and scrutinizes the findings for Renault and a handful of other teams. Program manager John Frankham says the new limits on testing are "not necessarily bad for us." Getting as much data as possible in the shorter time available will be increasingly important, he says. But as team budgets are squeezed, "we need to be cleverer" than competitors, says Frankham. "We have to think harder and harder...
...London's Central Criminal Court, where he always defends, never prosecutes. Most days, Rumpole leaves the mansion flat (25b Froxbury Court) that he shares with his wife Hilda (known to him as She Who Must Be Obeyed). It is allegedly one of the clifflike Victorian blocks that line Gloucester Road in west London (you'll look for it in vain). He takes the tube to Temple by the Thames River. It's just a short stroll through Temple Gardens to his chambers in the Inner Temple, a campus of tree-lined courtyards, fountains and gardens where the legal profession...
...From the middle of last year until a month or so ago, the interpretation of almost all economic information was negative because the data was unidirectional. That is changing. There are sign posts which point in two directions. It is likely that neither road sign is entirely right. In many cases both are wrong and making predictions about how the recession is going actually becomes more difficult and not less...
...recover this tank and try to tentatively figure out who was in it and collect all the evidence. This was all done at a time when there were a lot of insurgents in the area. There were thousands of people on either side of the road, so we had to do crowd control in order to give ourselves room to do our work. We had the crowd pushing forward, so we had to push them back. And there were rooftops everywhere. It was a very sticky situation. But we ended up recovering the tank, and we were able to help...