Word: flowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congress also moved belatedly to reclaim its right to oversee the operations of the Federal Government, notably the intelligence-gathering agencies. Both chambers established committees to investigate the CIA and the FBI. Result: a relentless flow of revelations about past abuses at home and abroad. The exposure was undoubtedly healthy-up to a point. But in the case of the CIA, it also severely hampered the agency's effectiveness. This year, the committees may well establish guidelines for the conduct of both organizations and try to restore the long-neglected function of congressional oversight...
...engineering collaborator, James Hutchisson, decided on a 5-gal. plastic container customarily used by campers and yachtsmen to carry water. Because the portable unit's pumps were smaller, they had to work faster; otherwise the dialysis would take longer than the usual five hours. Would this faster flow damage the blood's fragile red cells...
...trillion cu. ft. of gas in deposits in Alaska's Arctic; those deposits could supply 5% of U.S. annual demand (currently 22 trillion cu. ft.) when tapped, thus helping to head off the long-predicted severe shortage in U.S. gas supplies. In fact, the gas could begin to flow from the Alaskan wells into the Lower 48 as early as 1980-if Washington could only decide on how it should be moved...
...shipped in special tankers to Point Conception, Calif., near Santa Barbara. There the fuel would be heated back to a gas, then pumped into existing pipelines for distribution throughout the Southwest. This arrangement would reduce the Southwest's dependence on natural gas from Texas, which could then flow in greater quantities to gas-pinched homes and factories in the Midwest and the East...
...Helsinki Conference on European Cooperation and Security. He accused "some influential circles in the West" of waging "campaigns of misinformation, all sorts of pinpricks to ... poison the situation." Brezhnev charged that critics were emphasizing some parts of the Helsinki agreement, notably the ones that call for a greater flow of people and ideas across borders, while ignoring the overall spirit of the accord, which endorses mutual coexistence...