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  • noun Plural form of stovepipe.

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Examples

  • That morning, there were more enemy fighters in the air than on the first Schweinfurt mission, and dozens of them were rocket ships: converted twin-engine night fighters, most of them Junkers 88s, capable of launching 250-pound missiles from tubes suspended beneath their wings—called stovepipes by the Germans.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • That morning, there were more enemy fighters in the air than on the first Schweinfurt mission, and dozens of them were rocket ships: converted twin-engine night fighters, most of them Junkers 88s, capable of launching 250-pound missiles from tubes suspended beneath their wings—called stovepipes by the Germans.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • Since the attacks of September 2001, there has been a move in the US to link up archives of government information, in the hope that key intelligence no longer gets trapped in information silos or "stovepipes".

    WikiLeaks embassy cables: download the key data and see how it breaks down Simon Rogers 2010

  • Prior Administrations and the Congress have dramatically increased funding for Global Health in recent years, but almost all of these increases have been in separate funding streams or "stovepipes" such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, polio, tuberculosis, avian flu, etc.

    Carol Peasley: A New Strategic Consensus on Foreign Assistance Must Begin with Global Health 2009

  • These new "stovepipes" have been added to the population and maternal/child health "stovepipes" from earlier years.

    Carol Peasley: A New Strategic Consensus on Foreign Assistance Must Begin with Global Health 2009

  • While my South Asian colleague has creatively adapted to the new world of "stovepipes" and has figured out ways to achieve multiple objectives with HIV/AIDS resources, it is a fact that growing numbers of women in her community are not receiving adequate help in preventing or spacing their pregnancies, or in giving birth.

    Carol Peasley: A New Strategic Consensus on Foreign Assistance Must Begin with Global Health 2009

  • The smaller ships were called 'stovepipes' I think, and they were battleship guns with life support built around them.

    Something to do with a nuke Tripp 2008

  • U.S. Rep. Adam S.ith said such mergers will help all of the nation's armed forces work better together as they emerge from their "stovepipes" at home and "move toward greater jointness."

    The News Tribune - Tacoma - - HOMEPAGE 2010

  • In the process, most dollars are left flowing through traditional transportation "stovepipes" that are tilted heavily to roads over transit, traffic "throughput" over community livability.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local <br><b>By Neal Peirce</br></b><i>Washington Post W 2010

  • 'Given the growing US dependence on these systems, the nation cannot afford to treat its national security, civil and commercial space capabilities as separate' stovepipes 'but rather should look at our space capabilities as a singular enterprise consistent with national goals and objectives,' the AIA report said.

    India eNews 2009

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