Word: flowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are answers. Price is not the only problem; the huge flow of money from industrialized countries to the oil exporters is another. Ford's program, if it really does hold down imports, would at least divert to the U.S. Government, and back into the pockets of taxpayers, some money that Americans otherwise would pour into the treasuries of Venezuela, Iran, Nigeria, Canada and the Arab nations. Moreover, the U.S. must hold down imports to free itself of the threat of political blackmail from foreign suppliers who could shut off the tap at any time...
...news sent shock waves through a Playboy regime already besieged by rumor, innuendo and investigation. Arnstein's death compounded the mystery of alleged hard-drug use among Playboy employees, and among the unceasing flow of celebrity guests through the Chicago mansion and Hefner's newest Xanadu, the 30-room Playboy Mansion West on a 5½-acre estate in Los Angeles. Stories that both pleasure domes have been the scenes of parties mixing occasional kinky sex with drugs inevitably have attracted federal and state narcotic investigators; Hefner, 48, is almost too tempting a target to ignore, so publicized...
...veers between journalism and the short story. And it is interesting to realize from this juxtaposition of the two genres, a bastard belonging to neither, how much literature since Hemingway and Edmund Wilson has picked up the mannerisms and styles of newspaper writing. Here, as we read the smooth flow of narratives, the captured regional accents and hestitations of the dialogues, we are almost fooled into thinking that the often abrupt, slightly non-sequitur one-liner endings to the stories may conceal some literary profundity befitting a contemporary short story. Most probably, it was merely the unmerciful...
...would begin piling up along the leading edges of its wings, creating shock waves that reduced lift and sent the craft out of control. Johnson's innovative solution: the addition of a braking flap on the underside of the wings. When the flap was lowered, it smoothed the flow of air and restored control. To overcome the P-38's heavy "stick loads" or stiffness of controls during high-speed maneuvers, he was equally creative: he introduced hydraulic boosters like those now used in power steering in cars...
While the human brain has been put to work creating tools and taking action, whales' enormous brains seem to be anatomically structured to emphasize humor, emotional self-control and abstract thought. Much of their brain is also designed to receive an almost unimaginably rich flow of perceptions. Modern technology gives a bare hint of what cetaceans might "think." Most communicate in part with a superior sort of sonar. They emit "clicks" and "pings," then read the echoes in three dimensions. "One dolphin scanning another," explains John Sutphen, a doctor at Connecticut's Lawrence Hospital, "does not just receive...