Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aviator-type glasses, Rumsfeld prowls restlessly around his large corner office-he calls it "the cellophane box"-in a corner of the White House's West Wing, just a few quick paces from the Oval Office. He works at a stand-up desk, whisking through the papers that flow into the White House, then composing memos on a Dictaphone to be transcribed by one of his two secretaries...
...MILITIAS AND THE ARMS FLOW: I think military service can be one of the solutions. The other one is to convince every Lebanese that arms were the main instruments of this crisis. It is no use to go on like that...
Britain's big hope remains a flood of oil wealth from under the North Sea in the 1980s. To dramatize it, Queen Elizabeth last week ceremonially pressed a button permitting oil from the first major field to flow into Britain. To muddle through until then, Wilson last week announced a program of aid to 30 industries selected for their promise of growth-but failed to say which ones they will be, whether the aid will consist of subsidies or loans or how much cash the government will put up. Until such details are spelled out, the program is little...
Stop-motion devices, relished by Stoppard, telescope, bisect or reverse the flow of time. The sound of a cuckoo clock, which Stoppard treats as the Swiss national anthem, periodically suspends the action, and the same opening lines of dialogue lead into an entirely different episode. One scene has Joyce arguing that no one would have been remotely aware of the Trojan War had it not been for Homer, a dozen other artists, and his own upcoming Ulysses. Scarcely a word is uttered without a play on it. A few of the puns are punishing, but most of the word play...
...survival strategy. The demise of Portuguese colonialism severely threatens the bloc of white settlers states that South Africa has used as a buffer against Black Africa. The Frelimo government in Mozambique has already indicated that it plans to strangle Rhodesia by closing its access to the sea; soon the flow of Mozambican workers to South African mines will cease and Frelimo will allow black revolutionary groups which threaten South Africa directly to operate on its soil. If Angola develops a government of a similar ideological cast, it will further isolate South Africa and provide a home base for South West...