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...when an electric current -- which is simply a stream of moving electrons -- flows in a conductor, electrons move from empty slot to empty slot in the outer shells of the atoms. A material like rubber, on the other hand, is an insulator: it consists largely of atoms with completely filled, stable outer shells. Thus when voltage is applied, electrons have no empty slots to move into, and no current flows...
...unfavorable recommendation given by thecommittee this year shows that this was not justthe usual rubber stamp approval," Flaherty said...
...with a top-hatted "squire straight out of Fielding" near the Ohio River, which reminds him of "Cliveden's Thames." Adam, meanwhile, is rolling through the grasslands of Wyoming, sporting new shades, listening to Van Morrison on the stereo system of his beloved Catalina and exulting that in his "rubber-cushioned automobility I feel closer to America than in any amount of digging around for the fact and the detail...
...author herself floated in and out of relationships and jobs until deciding to become a writer, throughout the book struggling to reconcile what Radcliffe taught her and what it did not. And the last character, the neurotic, rich, tennis star-femme fatale, ran a rubber hose from her car's exhaust pipe to its interior and left the engine running...
Many of those changes either have been made or are under way. A program of tariff cuts and import liberalization has begun for a broad range of goods, including machinery, rubber tires and textiles. Rafael Alunan, a strongly nationalist local manufacturer of synthetic fibers, decries such moves as a "form of economic slavery, a way to keep us poor." Nonetheless, by April 1988, 90% of the country's imports should be free of quotas...