Instead of barreling full-disclosure ahead, consider the egg toss approach, where you start with a little lob and gradually "throw" further and further.
Instead of barreling toward the scantier security queue, watch for the line that's moving the fastest.
Instead of a barrel, there was a steel rod known as a 'spigot' fixed to a baseplate, and the bomb itself had a propellant charge inside its tail.
We now know, of course, that this is the worst spill in U.S. history, that instead of 1,000 barrels a day, something in the range of 12,000 to 19,000 barrels a day have likely been spewing into the gulf.
Instead of the barrel-shaped architecture favored by Boeing, Airbus is using 40-foot to 60-foot composite panels for each section of the fuselage.
Policies and ideas, the lofty sounding foreign word implies, will now determine the outcome of elections, instead of pork-barrel politics.
Even the French gave up the ghost in 2006 and allowed producers to start using oak chips or planks instead of oak barrels.
The other historical need for sifting was to fluff up the flour after it had been compacted during shipping, but that is also no longer necessary, because flour, sifted at the factory, is now shipped in individual packages instead of large barrels and is not crushed as much.
In a chart accompanying our story on Mexico's oil industry ("Running just to stand still", December 22nd), we mistakenly measured oil reserves in trillions, instead of billions, of barrels.
Vostok says a TNK-BP unit, Megionneftegas, in which it is a shareholder, should have earned $16 a barrel, instead of the $7.50 a barrel it recorded in 2003.
