Whether or not a caisson was used, the oil from the containment assembly would then pass through a manifold a sort of switching yard for pipes to one or more floating risers leading to the surface and held vertical by buoys.
Smith says that by subcontracting some of the work abroad--for example, the intake manifold in a car's air system--these contractors can add 20 points to that gross margin, and that's after paying Smith his fee of 5% to 7% of the foreign invoices.
"The evident destruction of the collection manifold is a big deal in that this by itself is likely to result in immediate cessation of oil flow from the area, " said Jonathan Hutson, a spokesman for the project, which is led by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.
The two pipes, which originally went up to the Deepwater Horizon, have been reconnected with heavyweight hoses to a metal framework called a manifold that has been installed nearby.
The pleasures and potential of the "anti-hotel" (a.k.a. the home-tel) are manifold: Anyone opening up a private residence to travelers is likely doing it for the income, but he or she may also relish the role of innkeeper, sharing insider-y information about the area.
The layers of middle-men between a consumer of healthcare and a provider are manifold.
Il Mulino 's manifold choices (the specials are a menu unto themselves) make for magnificent meals.
It is a prose capable of manifold marvels--marvels of exposition, marvels of lyrical description, marvels of evocative portraiture, marvels of wicked humor and sly wit.
Mr. ROBIN PEMBERTON (Official, NASCAR): The inspector discovered a substance on the floor or inside the intake manifold that was not like anything that he has seen in any of his inspections of any other race car.
We are extending the connectivity of the Net to a much wider world wide web that includes the manifold physical objects of the world, letting them speak back to software that makes sense of what those objects tell us.
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Pope Francis also seems determined to deal with the manifold problems facing his Church slowly and prayerfully, rather than as a fresh new CEO taking over a major international corporation armed with a new broom.
Eschewing a computer, it took him four months to draw the manifold layers.
More hard-boiled analysts want solid evidence of a sustainable business model that can be defended from competition, and that the manifold costs of acquiring and keeping the customers is really affordable.
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As a symptom of global warming, moreover, the warming Arctic is indivisible from the manifold costs it will entail.
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