Word: flowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gasoline taxes might help to cut consumption but would offer producers no incentives to look for more oil. Declared A.V. Jones Jr., president of the Independent Petroleum Association: "The capital flow that this industry needs will be going to the Government. I just want to beg him, 'Say it ain't so, Jimmy...
Jordan still resists being pegged as Carter's chief of staff, either in name or in fact. Says a Jordan intimate: "Hamilton doesn't like the kind of stuff a chief of staff has to deal with, all those intramural problems and the paper flow." Jordan himself says that he has no desire to get in the way of Carter's contact with Cabinet officers and other staffers. The West Wing troops, he believes, must "function as a staff should -that is, to support Carter and monitor things that are going on in the Federal Government...
Jack Watson Jr., 38, is both Cabinet secretary and Carter's Assistant for Intergovernmental Affairs-his formal link to the Department Secretaries as well as to Governors and important mayors. Watson describes himself as a "flow point" for Carter; he is responsible for routing all messages between Cabinet members and the President. Cabinet chiefs can go directly to Carter, of course. "But," says Watson, "as a practical matter, they find it helpful to pass those verbal communications on to me for transmission to him. They're very solicitous of the President's time...
...this level, the rising stars tend to be Jordan aides. His chief deputy, Landon Butler, 35, is a key operative for the Georgia cadre and is organized labor's West Wing contact. Another Jordan man is Richard Hutcheson, 25, a former campaign aide, who oversees the paper flow into Carter's In box. Senior staffers send their memos-held to two pages, when possible-to Hutcheson for delivery to Carter. But juniors with ideas they want Carter to consider must send their notes to their own senior staffer first; if he passes a memo, it then goes...
...largely due to Warren's poetic mastery of language. While his diction is less lush than Faulkner's his syntax less consistently run-on, he possesses a marked gift for penning phrases laden with metaphorical richness. His characters struggle to evade the "doomful tangle of time" and watch music flowing over faces like "the flow of fate as it returned upon itself." In winding torrents of words, they unthread the skein of illusions cloaking their lives, acknowledging its demise in cold, sudden, one-sentence paragraphs. Tone, metaphor and meaning hook up violently, flare and subside...