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The French adopted the habit as an intensifier of musculine nouns, proper and improper, and this too became mostly pejorative, as in mouchard sneak or informer (from mouche fly), and froussard coward (from frousse fright), and bastard , a trenchant abbreviation of fils de bast pack-saddle child.
When airlines overbook to minimize the chance they might fly with empty seats, the value of the hours we waste doesn't get counted in their costs.
Because so many congressmen fly so frequently, the aviation industry gets much federal attention.
The presence of four such repeats in invertebrate Kv3 channels and six in vertebrate Kv3 K +channels may help explain the difference in voltage-dependence observed between the mammalian and fly Kv3 channels, as even single amino-acid mutations in this domain can affect voltage-dependence of K +channels considerably [ 26 ] . The greater PAM distance between Drosophila and mammalian Kv3 channels (PAM distance 65) compared to Kv1, Kv2, or Kv4 (for which the intra-family PAM distances between Drosophila and mammalian channel sequences range from 25-40) shows that Kv3 channels have undergone more extensive adaptation than other K +-channel families.
Despite the cultural leap that being an airplane passenger requires--as an American, I have, after all, spent nearly four decades constructing an elaborate illusion of how I control my life--I continue to fly.