Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...straight: "I'm coming here as part of the loyal opposition, not as part of the Nixon forces." He proceeded to change his image by voting with the liberals to make it easier to invoke cloture. From then on, Bentsen was tagged as "unpredictable." Filling his office with flow charts, maps and graphs, he established a reputation for probing analysis of complex issues. He took pride in exposing economic illiteracy, whether demonstrated by conservatives or liberals, admirals or environmentalists. He won coveted committee assignments: Armed Services, Finance, Public Works and the Joint Economic Committee...
Buried Treasure. But the oil exploiters are pressing ahead anyway, perhaps with less euphoria than in earlier years but with more experience, maturity and confidence. Though only a trickle of oil is being pumped now, oilmen expect crude to flow in ever increasing quantities from an undersea supply estimated at 40 billion bbl., two to four times the recoverable reserves from Alaska's North Slope. Some experts say the total could be 70 billion bbl.-roughly equal to the so-far proven reserves of Kuwait-or even 150 billion...
...that he is an extraordinarily meticulous writer, able to achieve an effortless, limpid tone without leaving any loose sentence ends, or losing the thread of his story, or using words that do not belong exactly where they are. His articles seem to convey information almost by accident and to flow along without any forethought, McPhee having just sat down and written out his impressions of something as he remembered them...
...addition to the personnel shuffle, McKinney said, the GSAS is currently reviewing all administrative functions of the newly combined office, to find ways to "smooth out the flow of paper work...
...problems, it is clear, as Kissinger was ready to say this week, that increased cooperation between the developed and the developing world is essential. The failure to work together is fraught with some very real dangers. For one thing, the producer states possess an enormous potential for disrupting the flow of vital materials to developed countries. Four countries (Chile, Peru, Zambia and Zaire) control fully 80% of the exportable copper in the world; two (Bolivia and Malaysia) account for 70% of the tin; another four (Jamaica, Guinea, Surinam and Guyana) are responsible for 95% of the bauxite exports. Organized...