Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...geologists are trying to emulate the Russians, who recently correctly predicted a volcanic eruption on the Siberian peninsula of Kamchatka. The scientists have installed seismographs on the mountain's flanks to detect the tremors that are believed to precede an eruption and set up instruments to measure the flow and the temperatures of gases escaping from the fumaroles. They are also using sensitive tiltmeters to determine if the mountain is swelling, a phenomenon that could presage an eruption...
...Service and New York is yours. Let me demonstrate how apt the comparison is. We all can recognize that a major element in the New York problem has been the unwillingness of political management-in this case the city officials-to come to grips with escalating costs, costs that flow largely from the escalating demands of the municipal-workers unions...
...only glamour but write-offs that will reduce the taxes on their other income. Since 1973, a rising amount of tax-shelter money has been funneled into movie production by non-Holly-woodians who earn $125,000 to $200,000 a year-especially doctors. By some estimates, the flow could reach $1 billion in 1976. Tax-shelter money now at least partly finances the production of more than half of all the films shown in the U.S., including such recent big-name flicks as Shampoo, Chinatown, Breakout and The Great Gatsby...
...this aloofness between us was Precious, a bastardized mouse of a chihuahua. Precious was the yin and yang of the Connally marriage--on any given night the pitch and frequency of the despicable creature's yaps would reveal the flow of the marital battle--the advances and retreats of the two sides, the victories, the losses...
...life put the shoe on the Republicans' foot." He describes Nixon as "the worst president the country ever had," but doesn't hesitate to admit a general, if rather vague agreement with Nixon's policies, citing with sympathy what he calls Nixon's "general sense of dissatisfaction about the flow of government power in the last forty years, a sense that, particularly in the sixties, it got out of hand--a sense of limits, basically...