Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Security Agency is like the Jorge Luis Borges fable of the infinite library in which all of the planet's knowledge and information reside, maddeningly encoded. Into the NSA's heavily guarded, three-story headquarters outside Washington every week the world's secrets flow from U.S. spy ships, surveillance planes, satellites and hundreds of electronic listening posts round the globe. Unlike the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies, the NSA's mission is strictly communications-electronics and cryptology. It is the ultimate bug, the source of most of the nation's foreign intelligence information...
Some of the professors at the Harvard School of Business believe that Ford would help himself if he followed basic rules for modern corporate executives. To operate any major enterprise there needs to be purpose. From that must flow a strategy for results (Ford has waited for problems, then reacted). There must be shared goals within the organization (Ford has repeatedly attacked the bureaucracy over which he presides and which he needs to carry out his orders). Effective systems of information are vital (there are almost no reliable assessments of how some of the huge Government programs are working...
...music, but which also had a blind faith in the reggae singer. From his first number, Fundamental Reggae, the house was alive and poised on the brink of each high-throated, smooth verse, silent in the lyric wave of his high-pitched voice, screaming in the abatement of its flow...
...crudest tools and materials, he argues. Even in prisons guns are obtained through smuggling and primitive manufacture. Anop adds that marijuana is illegal in the U.S. but that this hasn't stopped even high school kids from smoking it. And the border patrol is unable to prevent the easy flow of machine guns and mortars, let alone handguns, across the Canadian and Mexican borders...
...this effort has suddenly paid off grandly, and madly, Springsteen remains obdurately unchanged. He continues to hassle with Appel over playing large halls, and just last month refused to show up for a Maryland concert Appel had booked into a 10,000-seat auditorium. The money is starting to flow in now: Springsteen takes home $350 a week, the same as Appel and the band members. There are years of debt and back road fees to repay. Besides, Springsteen is not greatly concerned about matters of finance. Says John Hammond: "In all my years in this business...