Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...puts it: "We are a high-energy society, and oil generates 75% of our energy." Politicians talk of "national security"?meaning both the economic well-being of Americans and the ability of the U.S. to stand firm against foreign threats to cut the international flow...
...arch diocese of New York behind him, Illich set up the school to "de-Yankee" the building-fund-oriented American priests who were unprepared to serve in trackless poverty zones of Latin America. His radical ideas, particularly about education, alarmed the Vatican enough to cut off the flow of priest-students; finally, after a farcical latter-day inquisition, Illich felt forced to turn in his monsignor's biretta...
...diaphragm. Taking issue with those who dismiss high blood pressure as a hazard, Breall draws attention to the danger of "weight lifter's hypertension." A man performing "severe isometrics," he explains, markedly increases his blood pressure because he tenses his arm or leg muscles and cuts down the flow of blood through them...
...biggest problem facing Wilson and his peers is how to mobilize citizen cooperation. When cops see the world as "them and us," crime prevention is difficult; when people trust police, leads and information on crime flow in and the job gets easier. Fortunately, some cops are freshly conscious of the need to overcome their own isolation. Seattle police recently pacified student demonstrators by affixing daffodils to their nightsticks. On Atlanta's Peachtree Street, where police and hippies once tangled, young officers have persuaded young civilians to help combat the use of hard drugs. When the department recently opened a store...
According to some ecologists, it will also be one of the most dangerous. They argue that lowering the water level of the Delta will allow salt water from San Francisco Bay to flow into the verdant Delta region and upset its ecological balance. Other ecologists predict that the diversion of water from the Delta will disrupt its natural flushing action, which is essential to the removal of industrial and agricultural wastes flowing into...