Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Flow. McNamara's chill ways with Pentagon brass and the press win him few warm friends. He lost most of those when he began carrying out Kennedy's injunction to run the Pentagon from the top down. As often as not, he turned to his top civilian assistants (see box), rather than to military professionals, for advice. "The ideas," as one veteran bureaucrat said, "came from the top.'' The work of the Chiefs of Staff in the decision-making over such key questions as the size of the retaliatory force and the role of conventional warfare...
...this drudgery has become "a Protestant system of penance . . . Members atone for their guilt by performing unpleasant tasks for the organization; to this extent, the organizational network becomes a secularized penitential system." By rejecting sacramental penance in favor of activity, Protestantism, Winter feels, is draining off energies "which could flow into creative ministries" and is becoming a vehicle of what Dietrich Bonhoeffer called cheap grace (TIME...
...Germany in consumer-goods output this year. Goals were being set lower. The target of the East German economic growth rate for 1961 has been set at 7.2%, the lowest in years. Finally, drawing a deep breath, Leuschner announced the most painful cut of all. To speed up the flow of machine tools to the rest of the Communist bloc, he explained, East Germany's much ballyhooed aircraft factories are to be converted to making such workaday goods as hydraulic equipment, cutting-and-forming tools and conveyor belts...
...cannot compete with the trusts and other professional investors who operate with more knowledge and less emotion. If the odd-lotter is selling, reasons Drew, somebody must be buying. The buyers are the professionals. Drew's conclusion: selling by the odd-lotters, since it simultaneously reflects a heavy flow of "smart money" into the market, signals a market advance...
...pictures point up both the virtues and the faults of Russian films. In fact, the good and bad flow from the same source, for the Russian view of life is a strongly emotional one. These films project a strong feeling of the land and the lives of its inhabitants. But this feeling is often close to sentimentality and melodrama. The soldier sways back and forth for fully a minute with a bullet in his back, while the orchestra rises and swells in the background, before he falls into the river and ends The Colt. All the characters seem...