Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peace and order" platform. Going into the 1970 election, he has the backing of most of the military and nearly all of the country's businessmen. In his 3½ years in office, he has curbed inflation, balanced the budget and attracted a modest but vital flow of foreign capital. He has even profited from the weather. Record crops ensure that the campesinos, who constitute 70% of the population, are pro-Balaguer...
...together we will flow into the mystic...
...ramp Sam paused and they all five gazed at the freeway below them. Wondering what possible cause for all the fishtailed bleepbleep boats to be zooming so fast toward the horizon. Five watching the flow and marveling that those below couldn't see what they could: if the river is us, we can go nowhere on it, we can only...
...some time, Laos and Cambodia have served as massive conduits for the flow of men and supplies from North Viet Nam to the southern battlegrounds. There is, of course, the spidery Ho Chi Minh Trail, threading into South Viet Nam from more than half a dozen points in Laos and Cambodia. There is also the Cambodian port of Sihanoukville, through which, according to some estimates, the Communists get fully 80% of their supplies for the war in the lower half of South Viet Nam. Much of the matériel is brought in aboard Chinese and Soviet freighters and moved...
...causing it to release its cargo of molecules. Conveyed by an inert gas, argon, into a tube made of pure gold, the molecules are concentrated even further. Finally, the telltale vapors are swept into the chromatograph itself. Adjusted to respond only to their known flow-rate, the detector's built-in electronic signaling mechanism quickly touches off an alarm. The system is so sensitive and accurate that it can detect EGDN vapors in air that carries only one part in a billion. Elapsed sniffing time: less than four minutes...