The revenue-sharing system, which is designed to funnel money from wealthier clubs to poorer ones, large markets to small markets, transferred $312 million last year.
Don't forget the limestone houses painted in Necco Wafer colors, with white ridged roofs designed to funnel rainwater into cisterns.
The experiment was designed to examine the workings of roof vents, sprinklers and draft curtains, which hang from the ceiling of large buildings, like warehouses, and are designed to funnel smoke from a fire inside the building toward the vents.
Recently, he and the financier Henry Kravis announced that they had raised $50 million dollars for a venture-capital fund designed to funnel money into promising startup companies and firms looking to expand.
They played a small but unwelcome role during efforts to stop the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010, quickly clogging a huge steel box designed to funnel the oil safely to the surface.
Compare that with the American youth system, a chaotic universe of exploitation, ultimately designed to funnel the elite directly onto an N.B.A. roster or into the clutches of college programs that are only about winning and too often are willing to strike any bargain to get the player they desire.
He talks about the foundation of institutions such as London's National Gallery in the 19th century, and their role as paternalistic spaces, educational but also controlling; this characteristic, he argues, is echoed in their arcade-like architecture, designed to funnel visitors through what are essentially art-filled corridors.
Modeled after the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, ARPA-E is designed to funnel money quickly to high-risk, "transformational" efforts to develop new energy technologies.
Peer out the windshield of the WRX and the aforementioned mono nostril actually a hood scoop designed to funnel air into the turbo is quite evident.
