When I came out to my father at the age of 16, he chased me around the house with a pair of scissors in order to cut my hair, as if I were a gay Samson who could be sheared down to a "regular guy".
A disparate collection of engineering and product groups were sheared down to four, as unified sales teams were assigned to big customers and unallocated costs -- a legacy of a matrix management structure with little individual accountability -- were cut to 2percentt from 30percentt.
It was forty stories or so in an area of town houses and other structures of modest height and it created its own weather systems, with strong currents of air that sometimes sheared down the face of the building and knocked old people to the pavement.
(1) Faults formed whilst the sediments are unconsolidated show evidence of sands being sheared down the fault plane forming disaggregation bands parallel to the fault plane.
Of the 60 shear-down-regulated genes, only 3 have been reported to be similarly regulated in OA.
Moreover, fluid shear down-regulated the mRNA levels of 9 cell cycle-related genes (Table 2), which may be responsible for chondrocyte apoptosis [9].
Jean Touitou, the quirky perfectionist founder of the cult French brand A.P.C., is known for shearing everything down to its minimalist basics: sneakers, candles, bottles of laundry detergent, quilts, hoodies (with help from collaborator Kanye West) and his signature product, denim.
The invasion of Twitter and YouTube accounts prompted the Pentagon to temporarily shut them down, shore up security and examine how the group, which called itself the CyberCaliphate, had gained such access.
As the planet warms, "the energy goes up, and the shear goes down," said Harold Brooks, a scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratoryy.
The storm slowly weakened from its peak as a Category 5 hurricane in the face of increasing shear, dropping down to a Category 1 hurricane with 90 miles per hour (145 km/h) maximum winds.
