For one thing, in low-wind situations the inflatable's mobility would allow the operator to pack it up and move it to a better power-producing spot.
The root filling consists of many cones packed tightly by the operator.
Now it is packed with telephone operators in headsets, who fan out across the cavernous floor at 5 a.m., when it is still dark outside, to begin dialing delinquent borrowers on the East Coast.
But even in this fast-growing part of the world, telecommunications markets are maturing, and SingTel, in which the Singapore government owns 54 percent, is looking for a new formula to stay ahead of the pack of regional operators jockeying for position in Asia.
If there is no packing condition for consigner, the operator will send the containers to the container freight station and get ready for packing.
The first half is devoted to a simultaneously sketchy and ponderous history of 20th-century physics, full of such technical jargon as "mixing angles," "perturbation expansions" and "conformal transformations," packed into sentences like "the operator corresponding to an angular momentum vector is precisely the one that implements an infinitesimal rotation about the axis given by that vector".
High initial line pack levels allow system operators to reduce operating costs, especially during the first hours of the day.
He worked for LaPresse agency and was considered a shrewd, savvy operator, one of a pack of surreptitious snappers who would do almost anything to get a scoop.
In this snare, the operator pulls half of the pack of cards through the other half, giving the appearance of rearranging the deck randomly, but then speedily replaces the pulled-out half of the pack cards to its original position.
Indeed, with Dr. Dean appearing to pull ahead of the pack, many backroom political operators have shifted into search-and-destroy-Dean mode.
Thomson leads the pack of the big operators, introducing its first all-day crèches - in Villars, Alpe d'Huez and La Rosière - for children aged from six months to four years.
