Word: flowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pipeline worth all the trouble? Defenders of the project point to signs that it is already bringing benefits. Employment is rising, and the flow of money is freshening. Deposits in the National Bank of Alaska jumped 42.5% in 1974. Says Vice President Robert R. Richards: "From this day on, Alaska's economy will never again resemble what it has in the past. We're running precisely counter to the Lower...
Even as Cambodia and South Viet Nam were falling to Communist armies, millions of dollars in U.S. aid to those countries were still surging through the pipeline across the Pacific. The Defense and State Departments acted immediately to turn off the flow: they rescinded letters of credit to recipients, canceled orders to suppliers, and cabled ships at sea to "frustrate" their cargoes (that is, dump them) at the nearest port. Result: military aid was routed directly to U.S. bases but non-military goods are piling up in warehouses all over Asia, especially in Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong and Manila...
...were destined to spend many excruciating months in a bureaucratic limbo. In an excess of administrative caution, the Immigration and Naturalization Service decreed that, as required by law, each refugee would have to pass security checks by no fewer than five federal agencies, including the FBI and CIA. The flow of newcomers, who had been moving fairly quickly from Guam to military bases in the continental U.S., and thence into new American homes, diminished to a trickle. One day only three refugees left Florida's Eglin Air Force Base. Guam had reached saturation point, with 50,000 people jammed...
...security checks for all refugees under 17, all former employees of the U.S. Government and all spouses of American citizens along with their immediate families. That could account for fully half of the refugees. By week's end, 16,800 had been settled in the U.S. and the flow of refugees out of the camps had begun to increase. Meantime, Congress, moving with unaccustomed speed, approved some $405 million to transport, feed and house the refugees and generally help them to resettle...
...Rabin. Rabin not only ordered suppression of the book, which was written by Newsman Matti Golan, 38, but also the seizure of all five manuscript copies known to exist. Rabin's explanation was that publication of the book would be disastrous for Israeli-American relations, would threaten the flow of American arms to Israel and might even force Kissinger's resignation...