We should first recognize our tendency to develop a hierarchy of values, locating brief treatment at the bottom and long-term intensive service at the top, instead of seeing the services as part of a continuum, each important in its own right.

Another school frowns on such a shortcut, and insists that after leaving the bin an old red wine should first stand on end for several days to allow the sediment to roll to the very bottom, after which the bottle may be gently eased to a tilted position on its side in the cradle.

he made fresh coffee and searched through all the desk drawers for more cigarettes before thinking of her handbag, and found a crumpled stray cigarette at its bottom, which tasted peculiarly of face powder.

It is not unknown for the anchor to foul on its own rode, or to foul the tines with refuse from the bottom, preventing it from digging in.

A mushroom anchor will normally sink in the silt to the point where it has displaced its own weight in bottom material, thus greatly increasing its holding power.

In contrast with modern basketball nets, this peach basket retained its bottom, and balls had to be retrieved manually after each " basket " or point scored ; this proved inefficient, however, so the bottom of the basket was removed, allowing the balls to be poked out with a long dowel each time.

In a piston engine it is the ratio between the volume of the cylinder and combustion chamber when the piston is at the bottom of its stroke, and the volume of the combustion chamber when the piston is at the top of its stroke.

Picture a cylinder and its combustion chamber with the piston at the bottom of its stroke containing 1000 cc of air ( 900 cc in the cylinder plus 100 cc in the combustion chamber ).

The shaft is wider at the bottom than at the top, because its entasis, beginning a third of the way up, imperceptibly makes the column slightly more slender at the top.

The Central Committee ( or the Secretariat in its behalf ) could issue nationwide decisions ; decisions on behalf of the party were transmitted from the top to the bottom.

Nereus spent over 10 hours at the bottom of the Challenger Deep and measured a depth of at, while sending live video and data back to its mothership RV Kilo Moana at the surface and collecting geological and biological samples from the Challenger Deep bottom with its manipulator arm for further scientific analysis.

Although the Alpha processor family met both of these goals, and, for most of its lifetime, was the fastest processor family on the market, it did little to affect the bottom line or repair the company's status.

Over time, the dynamite will " weep " or " sweat " its nitroglycerin, which can then pool in the bottom of the box or storage area.

< u > Left column :</ u > A continuous function ( top ) and its Fourier transform ( bottom ).

Rail fins evolved into being and surged into popularity as riders ( Simon Anderson, most famously ) sought a solution to two major performance issues of a central " single " fin-both related to engagement of the foil: For one, a centrally-mounted fin is tilted up out of the water as the board is leaned over, and thus it loses more and more of its lift as the lean angle increases-if the lean angle is acute enough, the fin's tip can be the only area left in the water ; the tip may then rapidly stall and, having lost its lift, become disengaged from the water, leaving the board's bottom as the only control surface still operating.

He described the white stripe as representing the glaciers and ice cap, which cover more than 80 % of the island ; the red stripe, the ocean ; the red semicircle, the sun, with its bottom part sunk in the ocean ; and the white semicircle, the icebergs and pack ice.

alt = A black cup-like object hanging by its bottom with blue glow coming out of its opening.

A passive proximity card with the plastic casing opened to show components: antenna coil and integrated circuit ( black object bottom center )

Reservoir fluid enters from the formation into the bottom of the borehole through perforations that have been made through the casing and cement ( the casing is a larger metal pipe that runs the length of the well, which has cement placed between it and the earth ; the tubing, pump and sucker rods are all inside the casing ).

It sets itself apart from other PDAs physically by having a sliding lower portion ; the bottom third of the casing can be slid up and down to cover or reveal the touch-sensitive Graffiti writing area.

Some noted that the rubber fitting side that closed the gap between the device top and bottom casing could be easily loosened over a few months.

He then started working on a casing shoe, at the bottom of the casing.

Various steps were taken to strengthen the tower, including fitting a casing around the bottom section up to the second floor and filling it with stone, and the surrounding rock smoothed over.

The bottom course of casing stones was made out of pink granite but the remainder of the pyramid was cased in Tura Limestone.

Disassembled CR2032 battery From left — negative cup from inner side with layer of lithium ( oxidized in air ), separator ( porous material ), cathode ( manganese dioxide ), metal grid — current collector, metal casing (+)( damaged while opening the cell ), on the bottom is plastic insulation ring

Here, on the hottest day, it is cool beneath the stone and fresh from the water flowing in the sluices at the bottom of the vaults.

At the same time, I am aware that my recoil could be interpreted by readers of the tea leaves at the bottom of my psyche as an incestuous sign, since theirs is a science of paradox: if one hates, they say it is because one loves ; ;

She had stood at the bottom of the stairs, as usual, when Mrs. Coolidge came down, in the same dress that is now in the Smithsonian, to greet her guests.

He is the first top administration officer to see the bottom of the slump.

While clay is still pressed in mold, press three equally spaced holes 1/4'' '' deep, using pencil eraser, in bottom of clay to allow for proper drying and firing.

The bottom planking is applied in the same manner.

Then the chines are rounded off and the bottom is rough-sanded in preparation.

The cloth is laid on one half of the bottom at a time.

This is made up of scraps left over from the sides and bottom.

otherwise, you'll have to spend a few minutes to either attach a suitable spring clip somewhere on the press head or fit the key to a length of light chain and fasten to the bottom of the motor mount so that the key is out of the way when not in use.

As the pool is emptied, stand by to brush down the walls and bottom while they are still wet.

You may find yourself hitting bottom, literally, as you discover that water is running out even while you are putting it in.

The bottom part of a burrow has a number of side tunnels or `` cells '', each of which is provided with an egg plus a store of beebread.

Similarly, at the opposite end of the market cycle, towards the end of an intermediate or major decline, usually while the bottom is being formed on the price chart, it is characteristic that an increase is noticed in odd-lot selling again alerting the chartist that a bottom is becoming a greater likelihood.

A second factor which enters into the practical measurement of the instrumentally determined cutting force is the frictional resistance caused by the bottom of the knife against the substrate.

very old red wine is often decanted so that the puckering, bitter elements which have settled to the bottom will not be mingled with the wine itself.

Water is drawn in through their mouths, which are usually at the bottom of their heads, and passes through branchial food traps between their mouths and their gills where fine particles are trapped in mucus and filtered out.