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Also Centering spring cylinder. A cylindrical cast-iron holder in which an adjusting string is placed. Adjusting spring seat A casting, or a part of the bolster of a two-wheel trailing truck, forming a bearing for the end of the adjusting spring. Admission The opening of steam port to admit steam to one end of a cylinder. If the valve has no lead, admission takes place at the moment the piston ...
Fentanyl is a highly potent synthetic piperidine opioid primarily used as an analgesic.It is 20 to 40 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine; [9] its primary clinical utility is in pain management for cancer patients and those recovering from painful surgeries.
The DC-6 had started to take off without receiving clearance to do so. [205] [206] On March 10, 1964, a Slick Airways DC-4 crashed 1.3 mi (2.1 km) southwest of Logan while on final approach. All three occupants were killed.
(Acceptable forms of voter ID include a permit for a concealed handgun but not a Social Security card or utility bill.) [302] The law would have needed to pass "pre-clearance" by the U.S. Department of Justice under the 1965 Voting Rights Act (certain states and jurisdictions, mostly in Southern states were required to wait for pre-clearance ...
The country code 671 became NANP area code 671. [100] This removed the barrier of high-cost international long-distance calls to the continental U.S. Guam is a major hub for submarine communications cables between the Western U.S., Hawaii, Australia and Asia. Guam currently serves twelve submarine cables, with most continuing to China.
In 1987, after a meeting with GLAAD, The New York Times changed its editorial policy to use the word gay instead of harsher terms referring to homosexuality. [71] GLAAD advocated that the Associated Press and other television and print news sources follow.
Carville was born on October 25, 1944, at a U.S. Army hospital at Georgia's Fort Benning (now Fort Moore), where his father was stationed during World War II. [4] His mother, Lucille (née Normand), stayed behind in Carville, Louisiana, where James was raised, but went to Fort Benning long enough to have her firstborn son.