Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Donald Tenney, assistant manager of the Greyhound terminal, testified that the three workers interrupted the normal flow of passengers to the departure gates. The BDRG people denied this...
NASA officials reported that, like its crew, the Apollo spaceship experienced only the most minor ailments during the 260-hour eight-minute flight. Some of the spacecraft windows fogged over for still-unexplained reasons; an oxygen-flow sensor misbehaved and unnecessarily flashed a red light; batteries did not recharge as fast or as fully as expected; current overloads twice tripped circuit breakers, cutting off electrical power until the crew reset the breakers. The otherwise flawless performance was a tribute to the corrective program instituted by NASA and North American Rockwell Corp., Apollo's prime contractor, after the disastrous Cape...
...most important development in international trade for a generation has been the flow of U.S. corporate capital to Europe. From $1.7 billion in 1950, it grew last year to $20 billion. The cash has not only fueled much of the postwar European boom but has created controversy among Europeans, particularly in France, who profess worry about an American economic "takeover...
...flow, if not the furor, is beginning to subside-and the money has started to go the other way. Partly because of balance of payments considerations and partly because European laws and work practices are discouraging some U.S. companies, new U.S. investment in Europe this year will run about 4% under the prevailing $3 billion annual rate, and may slide even farther next year. Meanwhile, the value of European-owned plants and equipment on U.S. soil is rising sharply. The total crept up from $2.2 billion in 1950 to $7 billion last year, will sprint to $10 billion this year...
Most writers would raise an inch or so of suds atop this murky flow of events. Bowen tells the story in a series of sharp, enclosed scenes with irony, dry humor and a terse, elliptical style. She sets pragmatists against emotionalists, opportunists against those who answer only to the hungers of the heart. Like Portia Quayne, the heroine of Bowen's best-known novel. Death of the Heart, Eva leads a life totally unlit by love. She attracts people, but when they reach out for her, they grope in darkness...