Word: flowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More importantly, Thompson isn't lazy; he doesn't let himself fall back on his story's inherent interest and flow. Like James Clavell, he displays a wonderful "can't put it down" sense of narrative. In a nervous, frustrating tale, Thompson is at ease, carefully building the tension and leaving you asking for more. His colorful prose defines the story, and draws it along smoothly. A less talented writer might have been lost along the dizzying itinerary or among the endless crowds of characters. But Thompson is at his best, drawing brief but dffective character sketches and artfully blending...
...wife Mary, 66, spent $2,000 to build a greenhouse on the sunny kitchen side of their two-story frame house. In addition, they have placed several water-filled, 55-gal. barrels among their geraniums and lettuce plants where the sun will warm the water; then the warmth can flow into the house through the kitchen windows. The Bleecks hope to reduce the 1,500 gal. of oil that they usually burn every year by as much as 20%. Says Mary Bleeck: "If we have sun, we can practically live in the kitchen...
Another aide, Jim Seymour, explained that at the present level of technology, there will be no hope of exploiting the rich tar sands of Alberta to such a degree that the Canadian federal government would allow exports to flow once again...
...need for an early decision on tuition charges demands this fiscal prescience. Most businesses budget on a "rolling quarterly basis," changing estimates and adjusting prices as they monitor the flow of cash. A university can't change the price of its product in the middle of the year, and so Faculty budget-makers are locked into an annual budget. They have to make crucial financial decisions based on fuzzy guesses about the inflation rate a year and a half from now. "I sit here in September with a budget of $50 million and I have very little control over that...
Rosovsky has managed to return the Faculty to solvency through straightforward conservative management, not slashing any major programs but narrowing the flow of funds at miscellaneous points. In 1976 he saved $60,000 by reducing the number of office phones. More recently, cutbacks in the hours of William James Hall saved about $125,000. This year, Faculty members who take out interest-free educational loans for their children will file forms to allow the Faculty to recover that interest from the federal government--a change that will mean about $100,000 more for the Faculty within about four years...