The request for lower rates originated with the Southern railway, which has spent a good deal of time and money developing a 100-ton hopper car with which it says it can move grain at about half what it costs in the conventional, smaller car.

Demand for parts for home entertainment was strong in the first half, but purchases were cut back to lower levels during the fall as set manufacturers reduced their own operating rates.

A unique feature is their ability to feed by suction using only one half of the lower jaw at a time.

Roma finished in the lower half of Serie A for five seasons in a row, before eventually succumbing to their only ever relegation to Serie B at the end of the 1950 – 51 season ; around a decade after their championship victory.

Therefore bandwidth can be defined as the difference between the lower and upper half power points.

Growth in real GDP averaged 8 % from 1991 – 1997, but fell to half that level in 1998 because of tight monetary policies ( implemented to keep the current account deficit in check ) and because of lower export earnings, the latter which was a product of the Asian financial crisis.

* Median – the middle value that separates the higher half from the lower half of the data set

In addition, the lower limestone content and lower fuel consumption leads to a CO < sub > 2 </ sub > emission around half that associated with Portland clinker.

Concurrently, until the early 1980s, U. S. Navy and U. S. Coast Guard captains selected for promotion to the rank of rear admiral ( lower half ), would wear the same insignia as rear admiral ( upper half ), i. e., two silver stars for collar insignia or sleeve braid of one wide and one narrow gold stripe, even though they were actually only equivalent to one-star officers.

However, this was considered an awkward title and the one-star flag rank was renamed a few months later to its current title of rear admiral ( lower half ), abbreviated by the U. S. Navy and U. S. Coast Guard as RDML.

In the above block of text, the same portion of text is shown in the upper half without and in the lower half with ClearType rendering ( as opposed to Standard and ClearType in the previous image ).

While Canion developed an 18-month plan to create a line of low-priced computers, Rosen sent his own Compaq engineering team to Comdex without Canion's knowledge and discovered that a low-priced PC could be made in half the time and at lower cost than Canion's initiative.

Belgian Forces identity tags are, like the Canadian and Norwegian, designed to be broken in two in case of fatality ; the lower half is returned to Belgian Defence tail, while the upper half remains on the body.

Canadian Forces identity discs ( abbreviated " I discs ") are designed to be broken in two in the case of fatality ; the lower half is returned to National Defence Headquarters with the member's personal documents, while the upper half remains on the body.

The two sides contain different information which are mirrored upside-down on the lower half of the ID tag.

Military of the Netherlands identity tags, like the Canadian and Norwegian ones, are designed to be broken in two in case of a fatality ; the lower end is returned to Dutch Defence Headquarters, while the upper half remains on the body.

The lower half is its 2D Fourier transform approximately reconstructing the shape of the aperture.

Additionally, the open space in the top half contrasted to the commotion in the lower half serves to emphasize the magnitude of the Tennis Court Oath.

The risk from most of these types of infection, however, is generally considered far lower than that associated with vaginal or anal sex.

Rectal examination gives an impression of the anal sphincter tone and whether the lower rectum contains any feces or not.

While it is agreed that oral sex has a much lower HIV-infection risk than vaginal and anal sex, HIV can be transmitted through both insertive and receptive oral sex, when there is contact between semen or vaginal fluid and the mucus membranes of the mouth.

There are two dorsal fins, no anal fin, and unusually for sharks, the lower lobe of the caudal fin is longer than the upper lobe.

Distinguishing features of the northern snakehead include a long dorsal fin with 49-50 rays ,( Hogan, 2012 ) anal fin with 31-32 rays, small anteriorly-depressed head, eye above the middle part of the upper jaw, large mouth extending well beyond the eye, villiform teeth in bands, large canine on the lower jaw and palatines, length up to 40 inches ( 1. 0 m ), with one report of 60 inches ( 1. 5m ), and weight up to 15 pounds ( 7 kg ).

* Pinch a loaf-To use the anal sphincter to break an overly long " Grogan " in two as it emerges, thus causing the lower half to fall off into the bowl.

The anal canal is divided into two unequal sections, upper and lower.

Its lower ends are joined together by folds of mucus membrane called anal valves.

* The lower 1 / 3 of the anal canal is lined by stratified squamous epithelium that blends with the skin.

The lower third of the anal canal is supplied by the inferior rectal artery which is a branch of the internal pudendal artery.

Image: Gray1080. png | The interior of the anal cami and lower part of the rectum.

The pectoral, pelvic, anal, and the lower aspect of caudal fins are trimmed in snow white or cream leading edges.

It will form the lower part of the anal canal, below the pectinate line, which will be lined by stratified squamous non-keratinized ( zona hemorrhagica ) and stratified squamous keratinized ( zona cutanea ) epithelium.

However, the lower part of the canal is currently

Farther east it becomes the Serranía de Tabasará, and the portion of it closer to the lower saddle of the isthmus, where the canal is located, is often called the Sierra de Veraguas.

This is the most common cause of syringomyelia, where the anatomic abnormality causes the lower part of the cerebellum to protrude from its normal location in the back of the head into the cervical or neck portion of the spinal canal.

Here the land lying to the west of the canal is higher than its bed while the land to the east is lower.

The lower sections of the canal were given to the Commissioners for Sewers, for use as a drainage ditch.

While the ancient Greek gynecologist Soranos had disapproved of giving birth on one's knees as " painful and embarrassing ," he recommends it for the obese and for lordotic women, that is, those with a concave curvature of the lower back that would tilt the uterus out of alignment with the birth canal.

For instance, Union Mills featured a two-and-a-half-mile long canal and towpath, and one upper and two massive lower locks, all directly upon the river.

Next, a circular pool, previously seen as ovular due to foreshortening, is passed and a canal that bisects the site is revealed, as well as a lower level path.

The grottos are actually on a much lower level than the rest of the garden and separated by a wide canal that is over half a mile ( almost 1 km ) long.

The construction of the railway cost was £ 180, 000, higher than the original estimate of £ 155, 000 (£ and £ respectively as of ) but much lower than the £ 500, 000 the canal was predicted to cost (£ as of ).

Above the locks, a section at Burton was drained because of problems with leakage, and a pipe replaced the canal, so that the water supply to the lower canal was maintained.

At this time Brindley had never built a lock and he first built an experimental lock in the grounds of Turnhurst, a house he had bought near the summit, and this determined the design of the narrow canal lock which characterized most of the canals in the Midlands, with a single upper gate and double mitre lower gates.

A lock chamber separated from the rest of the canal by an upper pair and a lower pair of mitre floodgate | gates.

Although the lower of the canal were repaired and rewatered, the project was halted when the United States entered World War II and resources were needed elsewhere.

This tunnel was long, its water level was one foot ( 30 cm ) lower than that of the canal requiring the transshipment of coal at the terminus.

This led to the construction of two different canal systems on the lower Susquehanna ; the first was the Susquehanna Canal, also called the Conowingo Canal or the Port Deposit Canal, completed in 1802 by a Maryland company known as the Proprietors of the Susquehanna Canal ; the second was the much longer and more successful Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal.

Also in 2008, discussions were resumed ( suspended since the 1970s ) of a 192-kilometre navigable canal Rousse – Varna connecting the lower Danube with the Varna lakes and the Black Sea.

A regulation of the Rhine was called for, with an upper canal near Diepoldsau and a lower canal at Fußach, in order to counteract the constant flooding and strong sedimentation in the western Rhine Delta.

The canal company challenged their right to reduce the tolls in court, but the action was defeated, and the tolls remained at the lower level.

It was located between Wintersett Reservoir and the canal, but was at a lower level, and the pumping station was modified so that water could also be pumped from the new reservoir into the canal.

The reservoir covers an area of when water levels are at their highest, but levels fluctuate as water is used for the canal, and the surface area is around half of this figure when the water level is lower.

In the late 19th century, excavations for a canal in Alexandria ( south-east of the city ) uncovered evidence of Aboriginal settlement in that area estimated to date back at least 7000 years ; more recent evidence discovered in caves near Glenbrook in the lower Blue Mountains, west of the city, indicates Aboriginal occupation of that region dating back at least 20, 000 years.