Word: flowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most bitter exchanges anyone can remember at such a meeting, West Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt acidly described Britain as "the poor relative of Europe." He also reminded Wilson that until the oil begins to flow in volume, a nearly bankrupt Britain will be dependent on the support and good will of the Community's richer members. "Dear Harold," Schmidt said, "you still have two or three difficult years ahead of you. The Community is in the habit of coming to the aid of its members in difficulty. In the event of another economic crisis, there would...
...names often reads like a body count, not a narrative. Later chapters pondering the fate of other European nations influenced by Bonaparte's power - England, Italy, Austria, Portugal, Spain and Germany - swell with so many scenes, leaders and wars that the reader is wearied by the sheer flow of words...
More immediately, higher taxes will drive middle-class people and businesses out of New York. "This migration has been going on a long time," says George Sternlieb, an urbanologist at Rutgers University. "Now the flow is a stampede." In the first nine months of 1975, the city has lost 193,000 jobs...
...week's end Ford stuffed his pipes and pipe cleaners, his Field & Stream tobacco and his important documents into his worn old brown briefcase with the red tag that says THE PRESIDENT. He finally shut off the endless flow of presidential paper, patted the family dog, and headed toward the Middle Kingdom, which according to legend lies somewhere between earth and heaven...
Hillsdale's reaction is only one example of the growing resentment on campuses against a smothering blanket of complex and often unpractical federal rules and regulations. They flow from a host of federal programs, ranging from environmental protection and unemployment insurance to affirmative action (which requires a college to prove that it is taking steps to eliminate discrimination on the basis of sex or race). Indeed, after a survey of affirmative-action programs at 132 schools, the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education declared that they are "confused, even chaotic," full of contradictory guidelines, and enforced...