Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tuchman's "notes" cover nine topics ranging freely from keeping the revolution red to keeping the countryside green. The essays flow smoothly from one to another, together they form a cohesive work, filled with perceptive observations. But as a collection, they assume a greater purpose. She gropes for that single flash of insight that would make sense of the rhetoric and the horror stories that filter through Hong Kong to Sunday supplements of American newspapers, that frighten many Americans and bewilder the rest. That flash of insight is absent...
Contributing to unemployment is the constant flow of hinterlanders into Djibouti, which now contains about two-thirds of the territory's population. The French built a barbed-wire fence around the city in 1967 to curb the migration. Although the fence is dotted with watchtowers and searchlights and is seeded with flare mines that occasionally kill, more than 1,000 Afars and Issas slip into Djibouti each month...
...tourists and the money begin to flow in, they raise the specters of commercialism and exploitation in a land that may not yet be ready for them...
Department finally sees trouble coming in an underdeveloped country. The new President must offer substantive policy rather than the swift rebuttal, a constant flow of economic aid rather than swift bursts when an irresponsible leader starts veering to the Left...
...UNKNOWN ORWELL suffers from one service internal flow It is just about impossible to discuss a writer in terms of his origins and development and then stop short of evaluating his performance as a writer, It is impossible to discuss how Eric Blair turned into a writer without considering what kind of writer he became...