Word: flowingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Merchandise imports are greater than exports, and they are growing faster than exports. In particular, Canada's deficit with its biggest trading partner, the U.S., is growing. The huge flow of long-term U.S. investment, which since the war has filled the trade gap, is slackening. At the same time, outgoing dividends are increasing in proportion to the cumulative total of investment...
...grandeur that de Gaulle is attempting to follow. With this oil, France is at last independent of the distasteful Nasser and his Suez Canal; without it, France is no better, in fact a little worse, than the rest of Western Europe. De Gaulle's desire for the uninterrupted flow of oil from the Sahara to France both inspires his sincere effort to end the Algerian war and gives a special shape to his formula for peace...
...nine weeks they worked, drilling bolt holes in the patch, lowering it with winches. The divers, fighting the heavy ebb and flow of the sea, fastened the patch with bolts, some of them a foot long. Once a shark flashed toward Diver Maurice Simmons. "I kept yanking on the diving line and saying to myself, 'Oh, my God, won't they ever pull me up?' Then they started raising me, and all of a sudden the shark swam away. It took me about half a day before I could get up enough nerve to go back down...
...inflation by preventing governments from overspending, head off world recessions by doing away with the excesses that lead to them. A full gold standard, as they see it, would also put a damper on sudden expansions of credit not backed by gold, help stabilize prices, and step up the flow of capital-and thus international trade-by making all currencies freely convertible into gold...
...second of two recent attempts to reverse the flow of traffic on Quincy St. proved unsuccessful yesterday. A meeting of the Traffic Board unanimously agreed to reject the proposed change of direction between Harvard St. and Cambridge...