Word: flowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Egypt. But the dam has made some old problems worse. The Nile's silt, which enriched the delta through the millennia, is now trapped behind Aswan's concrete; farmers must buy artificial fertilizer to do what nature in the past provided free. Because of the dam, the Nile waters flow more slowly now. More Egyptians than ever are infected with schistosomiasis, a debilitating disease caused by tiny worms in the river. In the delta, salt water pushing inland from the Mediterranean is gradually destroying some of Egypt's precious few acres of fertile land. In some areas the desert, because...
...volume, Psychobabble. On the downhill arc of the Me Decade, Rosen split an infinitive and savages cant as he collects "psychological patter, whose concern is to faithfully catalogue the ego's condition." Examples: "Very laid back," "I know where you're coming from" and "Go with the flow." Rosen was abetted by Novelist Cyra McFadden (The Serial), a resident of Marin County, where, she claims, such "mindless prattle" rises before it heads East to become a major polluter. Her prototype Of the Bay Area language abuser is a student to whom she assigned a Ray Bradbury short story...
When it comes to money, Britain's problem for years has been where and how to borrow enough to keep its rickety economy going. Now the British government faces exactly the opposite question: how best to spend the $40 billion or so that will flow into the national treasury in the next seven years. That is obviously a happy problem, but a problem nonetheless: while a right decision offers Britain the chance at last to break decisively out of the cycle of ravaging inflation and high unemployment in which it has been trapped, a wrong choice could keep that cycle...
...decline of inflation has given a welcome boost to British exports, which during 1977 significantly increased their share of the world market. As exports have risen and the pound has steadied, foreign capital has once again begun to flow into Britain, converting a 1976 balance-of-payments deficit of $6.9 billion into a surplus of $10.3 billion in the first nine months of 1977 (including both current transactions and capital movements...
...editing permits. Thus, a still, which allows one to linger over a single moment as long as one likes, contradicts the very form of film, as a set of photographs that freezes moments in a life or a society contradicts their form, which is a process, a flow in time; The photographed world stands in the same, essentially inaccurate relation to the real world as stills do to movies. Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever. Photographs...