Government investigators began sorting through the Dallas Cowboys' flattened practice facility, trying to figure out why fierce winds sent the tentlike structure crashing down during a rookie workout session.
Head flattening was practiced by a number of North, Central, and South American Indian tribes, particularly before European colonization.
In the Northwest Coast culture area, head flattening was practiced only on relatively high-status infants, although the capture and enslavement of children from neighbouring tribes that also undertook this modification meant that a shapely head was no guarantee of an individual's current status.
It is confirmed that, for the type of profile considered, which has characteristics typical of many found in engineering practice, complete flattening cannot be achieved with a finite mean pressure applied to the rigid plane.
For example, the trio notes that while flattening mountains is common practice in strip mining, "[s]uch infill has never been used for urban construction". According to the researchers, work was halted at Lanzhou in April 2013, after visible air pollution led to calls for an environmental assessment.
More than global corporations or countries, illegal production and trade groups have successfully adopted the much-advocated innovative practices of flattening, self-organizing, adapting and scaling.
Strategies should be implemented to flatten the learning or practice effect before the exposure.
"Flathead" is incorrectly used in some early works to denote all Salishan-speaking peoples, only some of whom molded infants' heads so as to achieve a uniform slope from brow to crown; notably, the people presently referred to as the Flathead did not engage in this practice (see head flattening).
Jernigan arrived at Troy as a 165-pound freshman who was flattened at his first contact practice.
They were known among English colonial traders as Flatheads because, like a number of other tribes of the Southeast, they practiced ritual head flattening on male infants.
