In a typical industrial gas turbine diffuser, a certain number of structural members, called struts, serve both as load bearings support and as passages for cooling air and lubricant oil.
So what of the other members, called in to play as and when?
Reeling under financial pressures, it offered just a series of recitals in smaller halls during the 2009-10 "bridge season," as board members called it.
In the waning months of the Clinton administration, 228 House members called the Mojahedin, also known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq, a "legitimate resistance movement".
Both sides had agreed to extend the contract on an hour-by-hour basis while talks continued, even as some members called for an end to talks and a strike at FCA plants.
The Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development OECDD), which counts 34 of the wealthiest countries in the world as its members, called for a comprehensive plan that would provide both immediate humanitarian assistance to asylum seekers and help to integrate them.
Zawahiri's brother Mohammed, the military commander of Islamic Jihad, had long been a controversial figure in the group, and yet he remained a fixture in the hierarchy of the "company," as the Jihad members called themselves.
As always, the group members called their audience "spuds".
For the early part of Pink Floyd's career, Thorgerson and Powell – who traded as Hipgnosis – were theoretically answerable to an EMI staff member called Ron Dunton: as Powell later recalled, "this big, jolly fat man who was in charge of the album cover department".
