The WINFLEX rotor is an inflated, cylindrical wheel tied to a central hub by spoke-like blades linked to a hub in the center of the wheel.

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In a letter to ministers before Christmas, he said the organisation was the "hub of the administrative justice wheel" and suggested that "wheels cannot function properly if the hub is removed".

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But be prepared they rise 260 feet from ground level to the nacelle, or the hub of the wheel.

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She excitedly speaks of the smart ebike, a bicycle with a 250-watt electric hub motor in its rear wheel, launching as part of a pilot program in 2013.

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The German Aerospace Centre has tested this idea in an aircraft using a fuel cell to power two electric motors built into the hub of an aircraft nose wheel.

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Such a strategy is not so much vertical or horizontal integration, but a wheel, with the brand at the hub and each of the spokes a means of exploiting it.

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Rather than circling among dozens of websites and suffering through tiresome page loads at each URL, RSS adherents can skim headlines at the hub of a giant content wheel, and in many cases (depending on how the feeds were configured) read entire articles without leaving the RSS service.

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As Washington establishes itself as an enormous financial hub, lobbyists latch to political axles like spokes on a wheel.

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