Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such measures may be effective for the short term, but inevitably they will also block the flow of some long-term capital investment. Moreover, they do nothing to solve the basic problem: the dollar's increasingly obvious overvaluation. The U.S. recently took one step toward reform by proposing a widening of the bands within which the currencies of nations belonging to the International Monetary Fund are allowed to fluctuate. If the U.S. proposal is accepted by I.M.F. directors at their annual meeting in September, the limits would be expanded from 1% to 3%, permitting an effective devaluation...
Later the astronauts were confronted by the first plumbing crisis in space: Endeavour s drinking-water tank developed a leak. Like any suburban homeowner, Scott whipped out a wrench stowed for just such an emergency, tightened a suspect valve and succeeded in stemming the flow. "We had a small flood up here," he said. "All we have to do now is hang up a few towels...
...mystical rationale for acupuncture is that the forces of yang and yin flow through the twelve channels and must be precisely balanced. Yang is variously translated as good, positive and "on the sunny side," while yin is bad, negative or "on the shadowy side." If a traditional acupuncturist diagnosed a patient as having too much yin somewhere, he would jab a selected point with a gold yang needle. In today's China, the newly respectable "scientific" acupuncturists rely mainly upon proletarian stainless steel. The modernists have added about 200 points to the list of accepted targets, and they sterilize...
...like hats, milk cans or owls, and squat concrete structures garnished with billboards or slathered with ornamentation. But he detests the proliferation of glum office towers that are "not Los Angeles but memorials to a certain insecurity of spirit among timid souls who cannot bear to go with the flow of Angeleno life...
...higher mathematics, there is a whole area of study called "imaginary numbers." What is an imaginary number? It is a multiple of the square root of minus one. What is the good of knowing that? Imaginary numbers, according to mathematicians, are useful in figuring out such problems as the flow of air or water past a curved surface like an airplane wing...