Word: flow
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bend. Ro Anne's temperature hit a low of 77°, then a double electric shock restarted her heart. The pump-cooler was disconnected, and Ro Anne's chest was closed. For the first time in her life, her blood had a normal, unobstructed flow from her heart to her entire body...
...city's sweatshops and into the I.L.G.W.U. In 1922 it reached a circulation of 225,000. But already the future had begun to close in. Restrictive new immigration quotas, enacted in the 1920s, dammed the Forward's transatlantic reservoir of new readers. The annual flow of Jews to the U.S. ebbed from a 1921 high of 119,000 to 11,000, and then to 7,000. Old readers, schooled by the Forward, confidently plunged into the new life, leaving their instructor behind. The Forward discovered that, too often, to Americanize a subscriber was to lose...
Before computers, the dozens of departments within a major corporation kept independent records, the essentials of which might filter up to top management with agonizing slowness. When computers first came along, all they did was to speed up the flow of information within departments. Sometimes, by generating too many new reports, they actually gummed up the works. Management information systems seek to feed current information from every department of a company into a central computer network which, after correlating progress in all areas, will feed back fresh instructions...
Wartime Severity. Kennedy's inclination to manipulate the news might have ruffled few feathers but for one major tactical error. In some measure, all U.S. Presidents have managed the news flow from Washington. The Kennedy Administration's mistake, compounded many times, was to talk out loud about...
...centuries, the sunbaked southern French provinces known as the Midi eked out their living supplying the rest of France with table wines; when the grapes were poor, so were the farmers. But no more. Today, along with wine, growing shipments of melons, asparagus, peaches and strawberries flow from the Midi into Paris. Responsible for this profitable bounty is a new network of dams, canals and irrigation ditches running from Marseille westward almost to the Spanish border. Responsible for the irrigation network is a 59-year-old northern Frenchman with the incontestably Gallic name of Philippe Lamour...