Word: flowed
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...heightened activity has led Western intelligence sources to conclude that the Soviets are making a greater effort than ever before to destroy mujahedin units operating from sanctuaries in Pakistan and stem the flow of weapons and supplies provided to the resistance by the U.S., China and several Muslim states. The U.S. pipeline alone is delivering an estimated $250 million in covert aid this year. Additional humanitarian assistance is going to the 3 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan, whose number has increased by 500,000 over the past year...
...Gammon's first book, Beyond the Sixth Game, the deluge of facts and choppy prose combine with a minimum of narrative flow that wears on even the most partisan of Red Sox fans. What works so effectively in a newspaper column does not please when extended over nearly three hundred pages...
...commercialization" of college sports, Kelly said, "has eroded many of the positive values that come with athletic programs." To stanch the flow of under-the-table money to collegiate athletes, the N.C.A.A. Presidents' Commission voted last week to urge that athletic department budgets be overseen by college administrators. Easy attitudes toward drugs, betting and corner cutting to make big-time money call for hard lessons. They should reverberate beyond Tulane...
...foreigners to photograph their land, and the foreigners were not all that interested anyway--since when has peace been newsworthy? Out of sight was not quite out of mind, but close. Now, however, thanks to an anniversary marking the end of a wrenching war, the pictures have begun to flow again, giving Americans another look at a country they knew so well--and knew hardly...
Electronic linkups that let computers communicate with one another, known as networks in the U.S., are rare in the Soviet Union. In addition, Soviet computers are usually unable to exchange data by telephone because of poor- quality phone lines. Those conditions help the Soviets control the flow of information, but they stifle the free exchange of ideas that is crucial to the rapid advance of computer science. In the U.S., many refinements in programming techniques have been developed by computer buffs who trade tips through networks and electronic bulletin boards...