Word: flowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When these valves become inflamed-it may be from injury, infection, some forms of cancer or simply sluggish blood flow from inactivity-some blood is likely to be trapped in a pocket where it forms a clot. The danger then is that the clot, or thrombus, will begin to travel toward the heart and lungs...
...Bank of England report last week cited some of the weaknesses that plague British corporations and could trigger a rash of bankruptcies: chronically low profit margins, diminished cash flow and tight money. Just as the bank's report appeared, London's financial community learned that Ferranti, a leading electronics and defense contractor, could not meet its obligations and had exhausted its lines of credit. Financiers in the City immediately began to worry about which company would be next...
...attracting enough callers to deep them busy, the atmosphere in Stoughton basement appears remarkably warm and easy. The on-duty staffers sit on old furniture placed around a fading brown carpet in the center of the room. When one sits down there with them, talk always seems to flow easily. The real difference between conversations in Stoughton basement and the conversations that probably go on one floor up is the noise level. Voices at Room 13 seem to always be subdued: no loud interjections, but then again no whispers. It is something one picks up from the staffers as soon...
...certainly in our best interest." And current U.S. foreign policy reveals that such a definition of U.S. interests is not an isolated case. Thirty-eight thousand American troops in South Korea are a key prop in the repressive regime of President Chung Hee Park in South Korea. An unending flow of economic aid to the Philippines enables President Ferdinand Marcos to throw any political dissenter into jail. Military and economic assistance to President Nguyen Van Thieu helps to keep the war-weary South Vietnamese people subject to a government that has subverted all democratic institutions...
Everyone agrees that if there has been any event over the last half century that could have dissuaded past supporters from keeping up the money flow to Harvard, it was the expulsion of ROTC in 1969. Yet, friends of Harvard--many of whom attended the College as ROTC students--though they may speak bitterly of this affair, generally say that it did not significantly affect the long-term giving patterns of more than a few alumni. The current discussion of sex ratios among the undergraduate population, while a topic of concern for many alumni--especially those with sons nearing college...