Word: flooded
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Noting that yesterday's discussion of the program was inconclusive. Faculty Council members yesterday said the greatest source of concern about approsing the certificate that dozens of other small areas of study in the University will flood the Faculty with requests for similar certifying programs...
...loyalty from them." In 1978 he even tried to make a deal with the U.S. to sell it 500 tons of raw opium over a five-year period for $30 million. DEA officials convinced the Carter Administration that such preemptive buying would be futile, since Khun Sa could still flood the market with opium. Officials now estimate that about 600 tons of opium is harvested each year in the area, most of it in the vast poppy fields of northern Burma. Of this, at least 125 tons is lashed to mountain ponies and carried to the Thai-Burmese border, where...
...press conference yesterday, the 50 year, old diplomat expressed his thanks for the "flood of letters, telegrams and notes...
...Another flood of red ink dismays economists, bankers and consumers alike...
Bankers and moneymen are deeply worried by the prospect of a steady flood of gargantuan federal credit demands. Says David Jones, an economist with the New York-based Government securities firm of Aubrey G. Lanston & Co.: "The Administration is doing too much, too fast, by imposing this superdeficit on top of the monetary restrictions needed to wind down a decade and a half of inflation." Adds Philip Hummer, a partner in the Chicago securities firm of Wayne Hummer & Co.: "The financial community gets very emotional about these high deficits. It is absolutely wrong to say that they do not matter...