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As the two lawyers were traveling on a bus, a gang of men, some of them wielding metal pipes, boarded it and brutally assaulted them.
In those sheds, a dozen men were shaping rubber and plastic, baking the fake feet in autoclaves, and stretching molten plastic pipes over fiery molds to make the fittings that would connect feet with stumps of amputated legs.
Many are fed up with the arbitrary imposition of trade barriers – affecting goods ranging from chocolate to steel pipes – in their former Soviet markets.
Malaysia is sharing with Sudan its considerable expertise in non-destructive testing (in which ionizing radiation is used to test the quality of a host of manufactured products, from oil and gas pipes to aircraft components).
Moreover, the country’s continuing high levels of fixed-asset investment make sense – building roads, water pipes, metro systems, telecommunication networks, and electronics factories is what a vast and rapidly modernizing country must do.
It may also need to think more about support for small and medium-size firms that continue to face structurally clogged credit pipes.
If it goes the latter route, it must state the quantity and strength of steel that is needed, its chemical composition, the dimensions of the product (pipes or sheets, for example), and so forth; and it must submit a separate application for each type of steel, even if the only difference is in dimensions.
After all, most men in that city would not beat a young couple with metal pipes and rape the woman to death.
The river water, it turned out, corroded the city’s aging pipes; by the time it left the taps, it could contain high levels of toxic lead.
City officials usually respond to such supply crises by upgrading their water infrastructure, namely, drilling, damming, and laying pipes.
The savings produced by these programs should be viewed in the context of the $90 billion per year that cities spend to build treatment plants, pipes, and other components of water infrastructure.
Credit pipes remain clogged, and only central banks are working to clear them.
Fortunately, it is not too late to build broader pipes that compliment and replace the damaged infrastructure.
Rather than just pumping liquidity into clogged pipes, countries can and should do more to build a more effective network of compensating conduits.
It wasn’t until scientists pointed out the carcinogenic impact of asbestos, for example, or the neurological effects of pumping water through lead pipes, that laws and regulations were enacted to address these problems.
The International Committee of the Red Cross does negotiate safe passage for technicians to inspect and repair damage to water pipes and storage systems in Iraq, Syria, and Ukraine; but each passage needs to be negotiated with governments in conflict and rebel commanders – a long and cumbersome process.
You call a plumber, who tells you that there are holes in the pipes, and that it will cost you $1,000 to repair it.
Well, this is the logic behind the United States Federal Reserve’s second round of “quantitative easing” (QE2), its strategy to keep flooding the money pipes until credit starts flowing freely again from banks to businesses.
The US Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) was an opportunity to force banks to disgorge bad assets – and thus repair the credit pipes.
So now America plows on with the cheap option: flood the pipes and see what comes out.
This reflects the fact that cellphone towers and handsets are much cheaper than pipes and copper wires, making it possible for the poor to pay the fixed costs.
The Obama administration has already moved against Chinese exports of tires and steel pipes, but this year’s confrontation will extend well beyond trade.
All told, the tapering of QE programs has left an enormous amount of liquidity draining through pipes of different sizes, and at different times.
For example, recently submitted “Dig Once” legislation would speed up Internet deployment by requiring that “broadband conduit – plastic pipes which house fiber-optic communications cable – [be installed] during the construction of any road receiving federal funding.”
Instead, we will continue to see small pipes being built around the dollar.
In this regard, the rapid expansion of cellular wireless technology, combined with the installation of high-capacity undersea broadband pipes around Africa, represents major progress.
From one end to the other, on the pavement, the pipes dripped into tubs, although it was no longer raining, so charged was this grey sky with moistness.
Now the school was closed; and all the children were running about, there was a swarm of little creatures shouting and tumbling and fighting; while those fathers who were not at the public-house were resting in groups of three or four, crouching on their heels as they did in the mine, smoking their pipes with an occasional word in the shelter of a wall.
The heat was like an oven; they were roasting and felt themselves at ease with glistening skin, gilded in a thick smoke from the pipes; the only discomfort was when one had to move away; from time to time a girl rose, went to the other end, near the pump, lifted her clothes, and then came back.
How many vessels have rammed each other, despite their running lights, despite the warnings given by their bosun's pipes and alarm bells!
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