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But it also creates safety valves, alternative forums, bases of comparison, sources of new ideas, and potential arenas for innovation.
But the next time that someone advocates a single financial regulator and its simplicity, remember that there is another side to that coin: where are the safety valves?
When the medical-device industry was blocked from producing lucrative products like heart valves, owing to the lack of specialized firms to provide sterilization services, the government used incentives to attract such companies.
There are two key safety valves.
There are two other escape valves: the 25th Amendment, which charts a course for removing a president who is unable to discharge the responsibilities of office, and impeachment for “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
These rules include appropriate temporary safety valves for recession, and some have super-majority voting requirements.
But, no matter how much Indians argue, they are not locking up or “disappearing” dissidents, thanks to the safety valves afforded by their democracy.
Steam rushed whistling into the gaping valves.
The furnaces were urged into greater activity; our propeller did forty-three revolutions per minute, and steam shot from the valves.
"And your valves are charged to . . .
The valves were charged.
Diving easily, these reptiles can remain a good while underwater by closing the fleshy valves located at the external openings of their nasal passages.
Now then, those Testacea capable of producing pearls include rainbow abalone, turbo snails, giant clams, and saltwater scallops--briefly, all those that secrete mother-of-pearl, in other words, that blue, azure, violet, or white substance lining the insides of their valves."
On the valves a pearl sticks fast; on the flesh it lies loose.
"One proceeds in several ways, and often when pearls stick to the valves, fishermen even pull them loose with pliers.
Among other specimens in these two branches, I noted some windowpane oysters with thin valves of unequal size, a type of ostracod unique to the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, then orange-hued lucina with circular shells, awl-shaped auger shells, some of those Persian murex snails that supply the Nautilus with such wonderful dye, spiky periwinkles fifteen centimeters long that rose under the waves like hands ready to grab you, turban snails with shells made of horn and bristling all over with spines, lamp shells, edible duck clams that feed the Hindu marketplace, subtly luminous jellyfish of the species Pelagia panopyra, and finally some wonderful Oculina flabelliforma, magnificent sea fans that fashion one of the most luxuriant tree forms in this ocean.
The shellfish Meleagrina, that womb for pearls whose valves are nearly equal in size, has the shape of a round shell with thick walls and a very rough exterior.
The mollusk's two valves were partly open.
But the captain stopped me, signaled no, removed his dagger in one swift motion, and let the two valves snap shut.
The vapor whirled in the air to an immeasurable height, as if the valves of an immense boiler had been suddenly opened.
The steam came hissing out of the valves; and this made Passepartout indignant.
"The valves are not sufficiently charged!" he exclaimed.
The buzzing of the over-heated boiler was heard, and the steam was escaping from the valves.
Let the valves be filled."
“At the maximum speed,” replied the latter; “the steam is escaping by all the valves.”
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