Word: shunt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Supermarkets often shunt private labels to bottom shelves, place their own house brands at eye level. National brands are often stocked in insufficient quantities, and money from national-brand cooperative advertising has been known to find its way to advertise private brands in local newspapers...
...children who begin first grade go on to finish high school. American students most often are promoted automatically-although some schools, notably those in New York City, have begun flunking dullards again. In Russia a frightening series of 26 examinations sift students at intervals, shunt unsuccessful scholars off to work or to one of thousands of "technikums"-vocational schools...
Trials were conducted among the craggy islands in Casco Bay, near Portland, Me., where dense schools of herring drift through twisted channels. Traditionally, Maine fishermen float long nets out into the channels to shunt the herring into the waiting traps. But such nets have drawbacks. They need constant maintenance, they cannot be extended across heavily traveled waterways, they are often carried away by tidal currents...
...Royal Palace, which now houses the Sovereignty Council. As protocol demanded. Rountree signed the official visitor's book, but then both Americans made the error of lingering for a half-hour of coffee drinking and talk with junior officials. It was enough time for the mob leaders to shunt their hoodlums across town by truck. As Rountree and Fritzlan left the palace, their car was nearly overwhelmed...
...Isotopes serve as tireless sentinels to warn of hidden leaks in pipes, as sensitive controls to separate oil from gasoline in pipelines. Oilmen merely insert a shot of an isotope after each batch is pumped in; when the radioactive cocktail reaches interchange points, the isotope automatically activates valves that shunt the crude and the gasoline in proper directions...