Word: flowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Checks for Dead. The federal checks were sometimes triple what the counties thought they should have been; some checks even continued to flow to the homes of people who had died. In all, 27 states claimed that Washington had made overpayments totaling about $400 million; they have refused to reimburse the Federal Government for roughly half of that...
...coincidence, but U.S. military aid to Israel seems to flow most freely when Jerusalem complies most readily with Washington's wishes. The 1973 Yom Kippur War is an example. When Israel reluctantly yielded to American pressure and lifted its siege of the encircled Egyptian Third Army, thus giving up an opportunity to cripple Cairo's military machine for years to come, compensation quickly followed. U.S. military assistance soared to a total of $3 billion in 1973-74. After Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy failed last March, the flow of strategic and tactical weaponry...
Whatever the state of the team's finances, nothing has ever stopped the lively flow of Finley innovations. No sooner had he bought control of the A's than Finley started agitating for change. At first he turned to gimmicks to pull in crowds and feed his starveling team: greased pig chases before the start of a game; a mechanical rabbit popping up behind the umpire, holding a supply of new balls; half-price tickets for bald men; a mule mascot named Charlie...
...sense that the points ignored by the Soviet leader were the ones stressed by the U.S. President. While Brezhnev listened to a translation through a headset and jotted notes, Ford emphasized the importance of the Basket Three principles of liberty of thought, movement, and the flow of information. He also gave measured stress to the phrase "and the possibility of change by peaceful means," citing Berlin as "a flashpoint of confrontation in the past [that] can provide an example of peaceful settlement in the future." Referring to criticism at home of his presence at the summit and skepticism about...
...that prostitutes are just typical women who want more money to spend on clothes. Others can see it as proof that a woman can make it on her own in the business world today; here she is, handling major policy decisions in the areas of personnel, marketing, overhead, cash flow, and consumer complaints, and she did it all without going to business school...