Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...midnight only a few police remained in the Square as traffic resumed its normal flow and pedestrians moved along the formerly deserted streets...
Some predicted that when lunch counters were integrated, blood would flow in the streets. White people wouldn't tolerate sitting next to a black. But the government said the counters would integrate. As resentful as white people were and as much as white people disliked black people, blood didn't flow. There was no official government sanction for it. I think people behave as they are allowed to behave. If you don't sanction anti-social behavior, then you're not going to encourage...
...Chekhov writes of the misery of overwrought people struggling to maintain self-control against unhappiness they do not understand. Both writers see themselves subject to the same errors and anxieties. Johsnon, despite his reputation as a prodigious moralist, majestically ordering life with indefatigable lucidity through the irresistible ebb and flow of his periodic prose, as profoundly melancholy man with a resilient and charitable sense of humor much like Chekhov's. Johnson believed that the miseries of disappointment would always exceed the joys of happiness; that human self-confidence is pathetically tenuous; that man loses himself in schemes of felicity; that...
...This impasse confers a greater than usual power on seven secretive men who sit in a mock Grecian temple on Constitution Avenue. As governors of the Federal Reserve Board, they have always functioned as a supreme court of money. Today, the Federal Reserve's power to control the flow of new money into business and influence interest rates for lending makes it about the only arm of Government left with much room to maneuver in trying to steer the economy. As businessmen watch their profits drop, investors see stock prices sink, and housewives note other prices continuing to rise...
Though 1969 was a disaster, Ling does not seem to have lost any verve or confidence. He is determined to achieve a positive cash flow by the second quarter of 1971, and Wall Street expects him back on the acquisition trail before long...