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downdrafts

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Headwinds and downdrafts meant flying at a lower altitude than planned, which used up power too quickly.

Moreover, industries such as pharmaceuticals and aerospace, less susceptible than capital goods to recessionary downdrafts, are especially important in Britain, points out Stephen Radley, chief economist at the EEF, a manufacturers' organisation.In another feat of jujitsu, the fall in sterling caused by a general loss of confidence in Britain is now buttressing the economy.

Dr Foley therefore concludes she was sunk by one of the unpredictable, violent downdrafts of wind that the area is notorious for.The Chios wreck not discovered by Dr Foley's team, but investigated by it is, as it were, the flagship of this style of archaeology.

Local officials lacked equipment and training; a team from the United States' coastguard which specialises in unloading oil from wrecked tankers arrived only after much of it had leaked.In this section Venezuela's revolution reaches the classroom Defence dilemmas Dodging downdrafts Tar-footed boobies in the Galapagos On the brink ReprintsFortunately, the weather came to the rescue.

The biggest downdrafts include health damage from air pollution and the degradation of soil nutrients.

Intense downdrafts are called downbursts or microbursts.

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Britain was not alone in having a housing boom; Japan and Germany have suffered far more from the recent vicious downdraft in manufacturing, as global demand for the investment goods and vehicles in which their industries specialise has evaporated.

Heavy-transport helicopters, such as the Mil Mi-26 or Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane, address some of these difficulties, but their payloads are limited to 20 and nine tonnes respectively, and their huge rotors create a powerful downdraft that makes handling that payload rather tricky.

Like other rich countries, Britain is feeling the downdraft from the credit crisis at a time when rising inflation makes it hard for the central bank to provide succour.

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In Belgium and France, prices are well above fair value and they continue to rise.In this section Keeping it to themselves A muffled big bang Marginal improvement Pay, peers and pride Downdraft The long kiss goodnight Hard to kill The law and the poor Correction: iRational?

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