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washout (iou) and Fox, Vicente Quesada (sh)


washout (iou)



washout noun. Also wash-out. L19.
[from wash out s.v. WASH verb.]
An act of washing out something; spec. (a) the washing out of a cistern etc.; a pipe or Other appliance for doing this; (b) Biology & Medicine the removal of material, esp. from a physiological system, by means of a fluid; the fluid used for, or matter removed by, this; (c) Meteorology the removal of particles from the air by falling water droplets. L19.
Geology. A narrow channel cut into a sedimentary deposit by swiftly flowing water; esp. one that is later filled by younger sediments; spec. in Mining, a channel cut into a coal deposit during its formation and replaced with sandstone etc. L19.
The removal by flood of a portion of a hillside; a hole or breach in a railway or road caused by flood or erosion. Cf. WASHAWAY. Orig. US. L19.
S. Burnford The road was pure sand and treacherous with spring washouts.
a. A complete failure, something disappointingly bad. colloq. E20.
Atlantic Illogical, unmotivated, the new happy ending is, as narrative, a total washout.
b. A useless or unsuccessful person (colloq.); spec. (Air Force slang) a person who is eliminated from a course of Training. E20.
K. Amis I'm such a washout I couldn't be trusted to boil an egg.
c. A wrecked aircraft. Air Force slang. E20.
Aeronautics. A decrease in the angle of incidence of an aeroplane wing towards the tip. Cf. WASHIN. E20.

Fox, Vicente Quesada (sh)




born July 2, 1942, Mexico City, Mex.

President of Mexico (2000- ) whose election ended 71 years of uninterrupted rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

After earning a degree in business administration from the Ibero-American University in Mexico City, Fox took classes at Harvard Business School. He later worked for the Coca-Cola Company, serving as its chief executive in Mexico (1975-79). In 1987 he joined the National Action Party (PAN) and the following year was elected to the national Chamber of Deputies. Elected governor of Guanajuato in 1995, he left the post in 1998 to focus on his national campaign. As president he sought to improve relations with the United States and calm civil unrest in such areas as Chiapas and Tabasco.