Straight 8s were slightly less expensive to produce than the increasingly popular V8s, but they were also heavier and longer.

The full Grand Prix circuit begins on the Brabham Straight, an off-camber, slightly curved stretch, before plunging into the right-hander at Paddock Hill Bend.

The track then curves around the south bank spectator area into the downhill, off-camber Graham Hill Bend, and another, slightly bent stretch at the Cooper Straight, which runs parallel to the pit lane.

Paddock Hill, Bottom Straight ( renamed Cooper Straight ) and South Bank ( renamed Surtees ) were all changed slightly to moderately.

They were a Straight but slightly downtempo AC station.

The original track was dominated by the 1. 8 km long Mistral Straight that is followed by the high-speed right hand Signes corner.

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The Straight has long been condemned for this practice by the major health groups and, more recently, by Vancouver businessman and political candidate Dale Jackaman in a series of Google attack ads.

Every soldier has a long, double-edged bayonet / combat blade the Tanith call Straight Silver.

" Later, in a September 2009 interview with Vancouver-based music website Straight. com, interviewer John Lucas wrote of the 8-year gap between Bavarian Fruit Bread and Through the Devil Softly, " That seems like a long time until you consider that Mazzy Star, Sandoval's partnership with guitarist David Roback, hasn't put an album out since 1996.

* Straight rilles follow long, linear paths and are believed to be grabens, sections of the crust that have sunk between two parallel faults.

Straight sizes: 3 "- 12 " long, curved: 1. 5 "- 6 " long.

The circuit was seen as somewhat boring and was universally unpopular with both drivers and crowds with only a reported 20, 000 attending the race, with some of the drivers reported to have privately wished the race was run on the full 13. 461 km ( 8. 378 mi ) long Circuit de la Sarthe where the 5. 7 km ( 3. 5 mi ) Mulsanne Straight was 1. 3 km ( 0. 8 mi ) longer than the entire Bugatti circuit.

Nigel Mansell ( Williams ) had an accident at the high speed Signes corner, located at the end of the 1. 8 km long Mistral Straight, during practice, and he suffered a concussion which kept him out of the race.

The Adelaide circuit was wide and fast in places, and included an 890 metre long straight ( named the " Brabham Straight " for Australia's three-time World Champion Sir Jack Brabham ) where the faster cars reached over.

His McLaren MP4 / 2B ended in the fence with damage to the front left after a brake failure at the end of the long Brabham Straight.

Neither car had qualified for the previous race in Mexico, but on the smooth surface of Paul Ricard with its 1. 1km long Mistral Straight the team were able to exploit their highly efficient aerodynamic package, as well as being the only team to attempt to race without stopping for fresh tyres.

Despite being the fastest qualifier in his V8 powered McLaren-Ford, Senna was some slower on the 890m long Brabham Straight than the V10 powered Williams-Renault of Damon Hill.

Straight high-speed runners can receive plugs, which contain small long runner extensions.

" Reducing underbody drag contributed to the car's high top speed ; for the long Mulsanne Straight at Le Mans, a fin was mounted behind the driver for aerodynamic stability.

It had a long straight ( called Flight Straight, which was also used as an aircraft runway ), as well as several banked corners, making car setup an engineering compromise.

TISH was the launching pad for a number of other publications including the alternative newspaper The Georgia Straight, edited by McLeod, the poetry newsletter SUM ( 1963 – 65 ), edited by Wah, the magazine of the long poem Imago ( 1964 – 74 ), edited by Bowering, the journal of writing and theory Open Letter ( 1965 – ), edited by Davey, the prose journal Periodics ( 1977 – 81 ), edited by Marlatt and Paul de Barros, and the on-line journal Swift Current ( 1984 – 1990 ), edited by Davey and Wah, and described by them as the world's first e-magazine.

South of Rudgeway a long straight section of the A38, known as the Mile Straight, heads towards Almondsbury.

* Straight Stream: A fire-fighting water stream generated by a combination nozzle, characterized by a long reach and large water drops.

The long form continues with another left-right-right to Jones Straight ( known as Rundle Road for the rest of the year ).

At the end of Brabham Straight is a right hand hairpin turn ( at the Britannia Roundabout ) onto Wakefield Road, then a left turn and long sweeping right hand curve back into Victoria Park behind the pit area.

His band the Charley Straight Orchestra had a long term engagement at the Rendezvous Café from 1922 to 1925 and recorded for Paramount Records and Brunswick Records in the 1920s.

In 1996, not long after the release of Straight On ' Til Morning ( 1995 ), Hill left the group to become a father and was replaced for one year by Moon Boot Lover bassist Jon Hawes whose hyperactive, popping funk style was an ample complement to Halacy's robust drumming.

Straight black hair

* Straight razor: A reusable knife blade used for shaving hair.

Straight razors are also much easier to clean and can handle tougher shaving tasks, such as longer facial hair, than modern multi-blade razors which tend to trap shaving debris between their tightly packed blades and are easily clogged, even with relatively short stubble.

* Dangerously Straight *, designed to straighten hair.

It became a totally different groove ... Straight away, everything just fell into place ".

Straight razors eventually fell out of fashion.

" Straight shota " typically involves heterosexual escapades between smaller, often pubescent males and bountifully developed young women.

Mullins was engaged sometime between the late ' 70's and early ' 80's and had written the song Doubly Good To You ( recorded by Amy Grant on her album Straight Ahead ) for the wedding.

Geographical landmarks of note include Kaplan's Woods, a hardwood nature preserve on the southern border of the city, Cinder Hill, a steep 60 foot hill on Linn Avenue overlooking downtown that is used by local athletes for training, the Straight River dam, originally used to power a mill and now reconstructed to include a fish ladder, and the Forest Hill Cemetery, an old wooded cemetery on the ridge to the north of Maple Creek that marks the boundary between the oldest parts of the city and more recent developments.

In the 1920s African-American families bought plots of land and built their own homes in the " Little Farms " section of the West Babylon school district between Straight Path, Little East Neck Road and Gordon Avenue.

The building of Carver Park and then the construction of Lincoln Park on Parkway Boulevard between Straight Path and Mount Avenue in 1956, with over 400 homes, triggered the transformation of Wyandanch from a mostly white community in 1950 to a majority African-American community in 1960.

Beginning in the 1950s and 1960s, light industrial factories were established in Wyandanch in the northern section of the Pinelawn Industrial Park in southwest Wyandanch and on the east side of Straight Path between two African-American housing estates.

" The " Big Stone Gap " refers to the valley which has been created on the Appalachia Straight, located between Big Stone Gap and Appalachia.

Today, the road names Northern Woods, Sedgmoor Road, Sedgmoor Lane and Heath End Road are still found in the village, perhaps suggesting that the " original Flackwell Heath " could be defined as being between Green Dragon Lane and Treadaway Road, encompassing Churchill Close, Chapman Lane, Chiltern View, Straight Bit, Links Road, Links Approach, The Fairway, Greenlands, Highlands, Jennings Field, Strathcona Close, Norlands Drive and The Common.

The remaining four pubs are, The Cherry Tree ( found on Straight Bit in the heart of the village ), The Green Dragon ( located in the south of the village, on the corner between Blind Lane and Green Dragon Road ), The Three Horseshoes on Common Road, close to the Golf Club ) and The Stag ( at the end of the village on Heath End Road ), and are found all in the space of just over a mile.

The Straight Course has generally addressed the problems of unfairness: for example, between 1975 and 1984, 50. 52 % of races were won on Bucks and 49. 31 % on Berks ( with the remainder dead heats ).

Straight afterwards, I went to Dravid and told him my words weren't meant to be personal, that it was all in the heat of the moment, it should stay out in the middle and shouldn't be a problem between us.

Straight University, after 1915 Straight College, was a historically black college that operated between 1868 and 1934 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Members of the breed are found that resemble all three of the foundation breeds, leading to three recognized types: Straight or Foundation ( an even cross between the Arabian and stock horse types ), Stock ( a heavier emphasis on stock horse breeding ) and Pleasure ( a heavier emphasis on Arabian breeding ).

Straight Talk is currently exclusive to Walmart stores because of a joint-venture program between the two companies.

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The name " Mulsanne " is derived from Bentley's famous history, which included five victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans between 1924 and 1930 — the ' Mulsanne Straight ' being the stretch of the Le Mans racecourse where cars reach their highest speeds.

During the " Scared Straight " crossover between Thunderbolts and Avengers Academy, the Purple Man is revealed to be incarcerated in the Raft Maximum Security Penitentiary, as Tigra warns her Academy students not to look at his face or read his lips.