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• Ducati Quattrovalvole
  ...on metre|N·m]] (10.3 [[kilogram-force|kgf]]·[[metre|m]], 74.5 [[foot-pound force|ft·lbf]]) of torque at 8,000 rpm. It had a six-speed gearbox.
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• CMN
  .... N. same to register itself in "first person" in base to the agreement in force between manufacturers in those years. The same you Shoe describes the race
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• Zanussi
  This service network was rebranded and became Service Force which still exists today but is, once again, all operated by independent se
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• Four-stroke
  ...ine relies entirely on the piston's motion to draw in fuel and air, and to force out the exhaust gasses. As the piston descends on the intake (inlet) stroke ...[[valve train]]). The valve is held closed by a strong spring against the force of which the cam pushes to open it. Each valve is needed to open only once
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• Four-stroke cycle
  ...ine relies entirely on the piston's motion to draw in fuel and air, and to force out the exhaust gasses. As the piston descends on the intake (inlet) stroke ...[[valve train]]). The valve is held closed by a strong spring against the force of which the cam pushes to open it. Each valve is needed to open only once
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• Anti-lock braking system
  ...ease the pressure on the braking circuit, effectively reducing the braking force on that wheel and causing a characteristic pulsing feel through the brake p ...that determine the driver is attempting a crash stop and maintain braking force in this situation. Nevertheless, ABS significantly improves safety and cont
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• Horsepower
  ...length)|foot]] per [[minute]]: 33,000 [[foot (unit of length)|ft]]·[[pound-force|lbf]]·[[minute|min]]⁻¹. This is sometimes called a ''mechani ...he measurements of mass were equivalent to measurements of force in pounds-force, which were not well-defined units at the time). So:
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• Brake fade
  ...ause application force is applied at right angles to the resulting braking force. There is no interaction.
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• Agusta
  [[Image:A109LUH.jpg|right|thumb|300px|A South African Air Force A109LUH]]
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• Monaco
  Monaco has the largest police force and police presence in the world, both per capita and per area. ...Monaco's defence is the responsibility of [[France]], it maintains a small force for the protection of the [[Sovereign Prince of Monaco]]. It was formed by
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• Tony Kanaan
  | [[Panoz|G-Force]]
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• Vacuum brake
  ...stons, so that a net force is applied. A mechanical linkage transmits this force to brake shoes which act by friction on the treads of the wheels. ...s that a very large brake piston and cylinder are required to generate the force necessary on the brake blocks; when a proportion of the British ordinary wa
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• Suspension (vehicle)
  ...r expanded during the spring's [[deflection]]. The magnitude of the Spring Force increases as Deflection increases according to Hooke's Law. Spring rate is ...d adequately to a linear model. For example, the first inch exerts 500 lb force, the second inch exerts an additional 550 lbf (for a total of 1050 lbf), th
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• Rotary engine
  ...nced so that only a small force was needed to open them, and releasing the force closed the valve without any springs. The center of the engine is normally
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• Lancia Delta-20/30HP
  ...rovement: the nutrition did not happen more for simple fall (therefore for force of seriousness) but with the aid of an appropriate pump. The 20/30 HP was
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• Bicycle gearing
  ...references for cadence and pedalling force. Prolonged exertion of too much force in too high a gear at too low a speed can increase the chance of knee damag
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• Jimmy Vasser
  | [[Panoz|G-Force]] | [[Panoz|G-Force]]
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• Asiago cheese
  ...ecree of [[1995-06-06]] under which the current ''Disciplinare'' came into force. [http://www.milkonline.com/fiera/cheese/disciplinari/Asiago.htm]<sup>,</su
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• De Sanctis
  ...g trapezes, telescopic shocks-absorber and coaxial cylindrical motivatings force. Rear suspension to inferior oscillating trapeze, oscillating axle shafts,
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• Shifter
  ...Others require that the lever be lifted, pressed down, or moved with extra force to engage reverse.
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• Gordon Johncock
  ...1982, but by only 0.16 second from [[Rick Mears]]. Johncock was a dominant force for much of the race, but by the closing laps Mears was rapidly closing in.
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• Aerodynamics
  ...dy of flow around solid objects of various shapes. Evaluating the [[lift (force)|lift]] and [[drag (physics)|drag]] on an [[fixed-wing aircraft|airplane]], ...te inclined towards the direction of the fluid flow. Using F for the drag force, ρ for the density, S for the area of the flat plate, V for the flow veloc
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• Lee Iacocca
  ...h that job, he switched career paths at Ford, entering the company's sales force. He was quite successful in sales, and he moved up through the ranks of For ...rd automobiles, most notably the [[Ford Mustang]]; he was also the "moving force," as one court put it, behind the notorious [[Ford Pinto]]. He promoted ot
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• Giancarlo Fisichella
  |Team || [[Force India]] ...d [[Minardi]]. On 10 January 2008 he was confirmed as driver for the new [[Force India]] Team.
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• Vehicle dynamics
  * [[Cornering force]]
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• Frank Williams
  Born in [[County Durham]], [[England]], to an [[Royal Air Force|RAF]] bomber pilot and a [[special education]] teacher, Williams spent much
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• Bandini 1000 P
  ...s easy access to the engine compartment. The introduction of roll-bar will force a reversal of opening towards and this is also amended the design of bonnet
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• Raymond Sommer
  ...rman manufacturers [[Mercedes-Benz]] and [[Auto Union]], were the dominant force in GP racing, with Hitler unwilling to see drivers from non-fascist countri
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• Hydraulic fluid
  ...08}} As aircraft performance increased in mid-20th century, the amount of force required to operate mechanical flight controls became excessive, and hydrau
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• Campania
  ...he ruse of tying burning brands to the horns of cattle, so drawing off the force guarding a vital pass out of Campania. In [[216 BCE]], however, after Hann
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• Ferrari Colombo engine
  ...gner. Although [[Ferrari Lampredi engine|Lampredi's engines]] were a real force for the company, it was Colombo's V12 which would be the primary motivator
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• Bandini
  ..., racing knowledge and his eye for detail ensured that Bandini cars were a force to be reckoned with in Europe and the US.
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• Piaggio P.108
  ...ost of the remaining aircraft served the [[Italian Social Republic]]'s air force and few survived the war.
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• Air brake (rail)
  ...ging]] and clamped the [[brake shoe]]s against the wheels. As considerable force was required to overcome the [[friction]] in the brake rigging, the [[brake ...ween hoses and pipes causes loss of air pressure and hence the loss of the force applying the brakes. This deficiency could easily cause a [[runaway train (
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• Brake bleeding
  ...gently. Note that one does not need to pull on the wrench with ridiculous force. Usually just a quick tug will do.
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• Automobile industry in Italy
  ...industry in Italy) is a quite large employer in the country, with a labour force of over 196,000 (2004) working in the industry.
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• Gil de Ferran
  | [[Panoz|G-Force]]
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• Italian Army
  ...y|Italian Republic]] . It has recently become a professional all-volunteer force of 112,000 [[active duty]] personnel. The headquarters of the Army General ...units are the pride of the Italian Army and are a front-line well-equipped force capable of dealing with most emergency situations. They are characterised b
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• Karl Wendlinger
  ...eding tunnel. Under braking, Karl's Sauber - hit the wall sideways at some force. The [[FIA]] doctors, were quickly on the scene - where they found Karl in
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• Aeronautica Militare
  [[Image:Stemma AMI.png|thumb|150px|Coat of arms of the Italian Air Force]] ...anuele III]] as the ''[[Regia Aeronautica]]'' (which equates to "Royal Air Force"). After [[World War II]], when Italy was made a [[republic]] by referendum
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• Automobile self starter
  ...he cycle. This means that the engine must be set in motion by an external force before it can power itself. Originally, a hand crank was used to start eng
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• Autódromo José Carlos Pace
  ...the pits is not a trivial task, as the high speed and the left turning may force the car rightwards, out of the pits.
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• Cagiva Freccia
  ...em with a [[brake disc | disk]] increased and that the pilot requires less force on the lever.
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• Whitney Willard Straight
  During [[World War II]], Whitney Straight served as a [[Royal Air Force]] pilot in the "No 601 Hurricane Squadron" with over 4 "kills" to his credi
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• Jim Clark
  ...gns combined with Clark's skills at the wheel made for a nearly unbeatable force. 1962 saw Clark battling [[Graham Hill]] who drove for [[BRM]] for the [[Wo ...tre engine [[Formula One regulations#History|regulations]] would come into force. Lotus were less competitive. Starting with a 2-litre [[Coventry-Climax]] e
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• Sports Car Club of America
  ** [[Cabaniss Air Force Base]], [[Corpus Christi, Texas]] * Air Force General [[Curtis LeMay]] was a renowned enthusiast of sports car racing. As
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• Standards body
  *[[Internet Engineering Task Force|IETF]] - Internet Engineering Task Force - [http://www.ietf.org/ Website]
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• Roger Moore
  ...foie gras]]. Moore narrates the video, which shows how ducks and geese are force-fed in order to appease the demand for the "delicacy."
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• Infineon Raceway
  *Highest speed, Funny Car: [[John Force]], 322.42 mph, [[2004]].
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• Economy car
  Technology continues to be the driving force behind economy car development. [[Hybrid car]]s and smoother, more powerful
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• Dallara
  ...ng G-Force chassis by the ovoid shape of the air intake inlet, while the G-Force's was triangular, a design characteristic that both manufacturers still ret
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• Airbag
  ...uced the first gas-inflated airbag in 1994, with sensors and low-inflation-force bags becoming common soon afterwards. Dual-depth airbags appeared on passe ...n have one or more crash sensors. The sensors are typically activated by [[force]]s generated in significant frontal or near-frontal crashes. Sensors measur
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• TM
  ...motorcycles, that small [[Pesaro]] enterprise became in just a few years a force to be reckoned with.
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• Never Say Never Again
  ...nd her charge, an [[United States|American]] [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] pilot named Jack Petachi, are in fact operatives of [[SPECTRE]], a crimin ...it seems Domino is her real name. Domino's brother Jack was in the US Air Force, making him a ripe and convenient accomplice for SPECTRE to steal two nucle
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• Ralf Schumacher
  ...Prix|United States Grand Prix]]. The deceleration was measured at 78 [[g-force|g]] (765 m/s²), one of the most severe in all of motor racing history, res ...ve alongside [[Adrian Sutil]]. However, after being the slowest of all the Force India testers on the day he tested, Schumacher stated that he was no longer
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• Ferrari F50
  Maximum reaction time (from minimum to maximum damping force or vice versa): 140 milliseconds (0.14 sec).<br /> Average reaction time (from minimum to maximum damping force or vice versa): 25 to 30 milliseconds (.025 to .03 sec)<br />
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• Espresso
  ...spresso is then tamped, or compressed with approximately 30 lbf (130 N) of force into a densely packed puck of espresso. The portafilter (or group handle) h
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• Car handling
  ...avity to lean the car toward the outside of the curve, increasing downward force on the outside tires. ...spectively during braking and acceleration. Since it is only the downward force that changes and not the location of the center of gravity, the effect on o
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• 2008 Formula One season
  ...onda F1|Honda]], [[Scuderia Toro Rosso|Toro Rosso]], [[Super Aguri]] and [[Force India]] also attended. [[BMW Sauber|BMW]] was not in attendance as they wer * [[Force India]]
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• Lombardia
  ...tury the [[Duchy of Milan]] was a major political, economical and military force at the European level. Milan and Mantua became two centres of the Renaissan ...nd provinces until the late 1980s; support for the other traditional major force of Italian politics, the [[Italian Communist Party]] (PCI), was increasingl
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• List of Formula One constructors
  | [[Force India F1 Team|Force India]] || {{flagiconIndia}} [[India]]n || {{flagiconUK}} [[Northamptonshir :^t Formerly [[Midland F1 Racing]]; subsequently became [[Force India]].
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• Carbon fibre
  ...(carbonization) exhibits the highest [[tensile strength]] (820,000 [[pound force per square inch|psi]] or 5,650 MPa or 5,650 N/mm²), while carbon fiber hea
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• Spacecraft propulsion
  ...an achieve a given impulse with a large force over a short time or a small force over a long time. This means that for maneuvering in space, a propulsion m
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• Ferrari P4/5
  ...at 8200 and the torque of 657 [[newton metre]]s (485&nbsp;ft&nbsp;[[pound-force|lbf]]) at 5500&nbsp;rpm are both the same as the Enzo, but it produces marg
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• Street racing
  ...o be mostly modified Japanese cars and motorcycles. The [[Hong Kong Police Force]], responsible for road safety, tends to place [[roadblock|roadblocks]] in
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• Cyclo-cross
  ...oo steep to ride up to man-made objects like steps and plank barriers that force a dismount or a bunny-hop.
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• Hemi engine
  ...er. Zora '''Ar'''kus-'''Dun'''tov, who later worked for GM and was a major force behind the development of the [[Chevrolet Corvette]], and his brother Yura,
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• Tire manufacturing
  ...ap. Splices that are too heavy or non-symmetrical will generate defects in force variation, balance, or bulge parameters. Splices that are too light or open ...l halves, inflated, run against a simulated road surface, and measured for force variation. Tire balance measurement is a test where the tire is automatical
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• Ceramic
  ...ducer]]s for [[sonar]], and actuators for [[atomic force microscope|atomic force]] and [[scanning tunneling microscope]]s.
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• Crotone
  ...hese, being unable to defend the place against a [[Carthage|Carthaginian]] force, soon after surrendered, and were allowed to withdraw to Locri.
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• Linkage (mechanical)
  *[http://www.artas.nl SAM] User-friendly software for design, motion/force analysis & optimization of planar linkage, gear and belt mechanisms
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• Fiat Topolino
  ...ies, because, most of the time, customs duties extremely important then in force in all these countries:
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• Electric vehicle conversion
  ...ve General Motors [[Geo Metro]] for electric use, creating the [[Solectria Force]].) * [[Labor force]]
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• Conversion of units
  ...f mass]] is sometimes written '''lbm''' to distinguish it from the [[pound-force]] ('''lbf'''). It should not be read as the mongrel unit "pound metre". ===Force===
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• Formula One car
  ...me temperatures, up to 1,000 degrees Celsius. The driver can control brake force distribution fore and aft to compensate for changes in track conditions. R ...ic drag actually helps, and can contribute as much as 1.0 ''g'' of braking force, which is the equivalent of the brakes on most sports cars. In other words,
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• Alfa Corse
  Nevertheless it is in the [[1923]], that the Alfa from demonstration of its force, imponendosi with a shotgun to the license Plate Florio, with [[Ugo Sivocci
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• Seat belt
  ...ith locking mechanisms that tighten the belt when pulled hard (e.g. by the force of a passenger's body during a crash) but do not tighten when pulled slowly
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• Oversteer
  ...This occurs because the rear tires must handle both the lateral cornering force and engine torque.
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• Fiberglass
  ...rocess. Here, the glass enters a rotating spinner, and due to centrifugal force is thrown out horizontally. The air jets pushes it down vertically and bin
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• Formula One sponsorship liveries
  ==Force India== ...lo Fisichella 2008 Monaco.jpg|thumb|right|Giancarlo Fisichella driving the Force India VJM-01 at the 2008 Monaco GP.]]
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• Ferrari F60
  ...e season, he was replaced by Ferrari test driver, [[Luca Badoer]] and ex-[[Force India]] driver [[Giancarlo Fisichella]].
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• Roman cuisine
  ...technique of force-feeding was already known, and the [[Foie gras|liver of force-fed geese]] was a special delicacy, as it is today.
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• Front-wheel drive
  ...eering mechanisms) and the centroid of its [[contact patch]]. The tractive force acts through the centroid of the contact patch, and the offset of the steer
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• Hellé Nice
  ...n a soldier who absorbed the full impact of her body, saving her life. The force of the impact killed the soldier and because she lay unconscious, she too w
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• GP2
  ...he [[Circuit de Valencia]]. Eventual champion [[Timo Glock]] was a driving force throughout the series, but came under stiff competition from [[Lucas Di Gra
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• List of racing drivers
  * [[John Force]]
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• Riccardo Patrese
  ...season|1986]] Patrese returned to Brabham, but by now the team was a spent force and would never again take a driver to victory in a grand prix. Two more w
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• CanAm
  ...r, with the by-then usual big-block Chevrolet engine providing the driving force, and a tiny snowmobile engine powering a pair of fans at the back of the ca
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• Argentine Grand Prix
  ...tory. [[Argentina|Argentine]] [[president]] [[Juan Perón]] was the driving force behind the creation of the circuit, after seeing the success of the country
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• Tomorrow Never Dies
  ...found to have been killed using Chinese ammunition, a [[Royal Navy]] task force is sent to the region. ...omorrow Never Dies''. An agent from the Chinese People's External Security Force, Wai Lin was sent to investigate Elliot Carver's role in trying to start a
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• Art of Italy
  ...view, so Futurism attempted to modernise all the arts and imbue them with force and dynamism by multiple methods. The Futurists loved movement and dance. T
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• Electric car
  ...[[magnetic levitation train]]s, floating above the rails through magnetic force. Note that the levitation and the forward motion are independent effects:
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• Electronic stability control
  ...ved the course tracing performance by automatically adjusting the traction force (called "trace control") thereby restraining the development of excessive l ...a hydraulic modulator to assure that each wheel receives the correct brake force. A similar modulator is used in [[Anti-lock braking system|ABS]]. ABS needs
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• Rear wheel drive
  * Better handling in dry conditions - less [[force]] is applied to the front wheels, allowing more of their [[friction]] to be
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• You Only Live Twice
  ...Bond manages to open the crater hatch, allowing Tanaka's troops' entry in force to the rocket base. In the ensuing battle, Bond enters the rocket launch co
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• Narain Karthikeyan
  ...s the end of 2007, Karthikeyan had been linked with a drive with the new [[Force India]] F1 team in 2008. However, Karthikeyan did not even get to test for
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• Front wheel drive
  ...ering mechanisms) and the centroid of its [[contact patch]]. The tractive force acts through the centroid of the contact patch, and the offset of the steer
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• Motorcycle
  ...est, the rider puts one or both feet on the ground, because the gyroscopic force that keeps a moving bike up is absent. ...rcycles still effectively push their way through the atmosphere with brute force.
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• Motocross
  ...he rear wheel causes the front of the bike to rise), allowing the rider to force the bike to a specific position or attitude relative to the ground.
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