Our greatest President was also, possibly, our greatest reviser a cutter and paster who questioned his imperfect ideas, accepted input, made them better, and kept all of his drafts, so that history could learn not just from his speeches but from the workings of his mind.
To supplement the perimeter sedimentation basins additional holding ponds are usually employed to collect runoff from the surface facility and pump discharges from mine workings.
There he really came to understand how computers work, and how meaning and intelligence might arise from the workings of billions of transistors.
There is, after all, only so much you can do to distract from the workings of the giant mechanism that dominates the stage.
Politics affects every one of us every day, but it's well documented that all of us, and especially the young, feel increasingly alienated from its workings.
The Obama administration is taking a major step toward bolstering legal immigration and protecting families — while removing some of the arbitrary cruelty from the workings of the immigration bureaucracy.
Hydrogen bonds involve highly changeable interactions that are individually very weak but that in bulk are of fundamental importance to a wide range of phenomena, from the workings of climate to the formation of DNA molecules.
The result is that there is little prospect of the monarchy, with all its carefully choreographed mystique of ritual and ancient influence, being unstitched from the workings of the British state.
It is a chunk of the world economy, unleashed, by means of a cruel metaphysical joke, to threaten the life of someone who, we can assume, has benefited from the workings of that economy.
Even when individual essays did not live up to Malcolm's rigorous standards, the collection as a whole shows how connections emerge from the workings of one memorably searching, restless, ruthless mind.
