Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tariffs between its six member nations another 10%. The second 10% cut since the market got going, it will be followed by a third at the end of the year. Import quotas will not be completely abolished until the end of 1961, but voluntary liberalization has already brought free flow of a big range of industrial and consumer goods. The system is working so well-trade among the Six was up 29% and trade with the rest of the world up 8% last year-that West Germany will soon urge a special Common Market conference to study new ways...
...Buses. Making liberal use of the big workshops at his disposal, Polich invented dozens of classroom de vices to illustrate the latest engineering and electrical developments for 32 courses. Instead of the standard black board sketches and one-dimensional charts, he mounted cutaway engines on huge boards, indicated power flow by beads, lights and liquids. A model of the fuel-injection system for diesel engines spouts real flames; the school also has a huge cutaway bulldozer that actually works with most of the moving parts exposed to view. "A chart of a missile system in static form would send...
...argued that compact and smaller car headlights are too close together, thus give other drivers trouble judging the distance from such approaching cars at night. The Michigan Good Roads Federation shares Mackie's concern, and Michigan State University's Highway Traffic Safety Center is studying traffic flow and safety questions involving the compacts...
...biography,* by Critic Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, is little more than an affectionate scrapbook, patiently assembled by an old friend. It is filled with familiar and unfamiliar poems, letters, reviews of his books. pages from old notebooks and Christmas cards. But above all, it contains a steady flow of the talk that Frost, 86, feared might go to waste. Largely taken from conversations, partly from conversational letters and notes, the words show a strong, witty, wise, gently ironic man, even in old age remarkably without an old man's garrulity and sentimentality, looking at poetry and life with a youthful...
...mineral treasure house of the southeast Congo, where the Bemba and the Tshokwe tribesmen flow over into parts of Northern Rhodesia and Angola, irredentist sentiment runs high among some black leaders. Moise Tshombe, boss of copper-rich Katanga province, talks of negotiating with the Northern Rhodesians and his Conakat Party has begun organizing branches in Northern Rhodesia itself...