Word: flowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From Washington to New York City, new cars join the flow, upscale Volvos and BMWs. Turning off to the New Jersey Turnpike, the road becomes a delta, flattening, spreading out, careening and jostling forward at 55 m.p.h. The trucks are shunted off to a side lane and traveling along, nose to tail, bumper to bumper, they look like . . . yes! . . . a train! Remember trains? Surely trains were more sensible than this, a 20th century folly, this stampede of steel roaring toward the Lincoln Tunnel...
Some officials point to signs of progress since the scandals of the summer and fall. After years of criticism from Washington, Austria changed its trade laws and promised it would do its best to stop the flow of high-tech goods through Vienna, which is regarded as a major transshipment point. Japanese officials are investigating some 20 cases of technology transfers that may violate COCOM regulations...
...with wailing eunuchs, dismissed by their ruler; a tennis court, so strangely out of place in these precincts and yet the locale where Pu Yi hears that he has been deposed -- all of this is Bertolucci at his effortless best, a man from whom unforgettable visual metaphors seem to flow of their own accord...
...original purpose of the Iran deals, the report says, was to trade arms for hostages. But the arms flow continued even though Iran did not release the American hostages. Why? The committee concludes that North and others came to believe the hefty arms-sale profits could serve as an ongoing source of funding for the contras...
KWITNY presents Nugan Hand as perhaps the most successful of the ventures disguised as private businesses through which the CIA pursues its ends beyond the scrutiny of the public, press or Senate. Brief autobiographies of players in Nugan Hand and other concerns show a flow of operatives between intelligence entitities and "the private sector." Lists of associates of Frank Nugan, scion of one of Australia's leading families, read like a Who's Who for the top reaches of the U.S. military. Admiral Earl Yates presided over Nugan Hand; General LeRoy Manor, former U.S. Government liason to Philippine President Macros...