Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boyle's Law. If not controlled, work will flow to the competent man until he submerges.−Charles Boyle of NASA...
...recognition ratifies none of those actions. Instead it marks the awareness of American officials that the U.S. has a political and economic stake in Iran that it will lose entirely if it refused to talk with the Iranian government. And beyond the pragmatic considerations of ensuring the steady flow of Iranian oil into the United States, any larger political and moral influence would be sacrificed if the U.S. witheld recognition of any nation solely because it objects to the country's political practices...
...thesis, but are not always clear in their own right. Her discussions of Daniel Patrick Moynihan's and Eugene Genovese's portrayals of black sociology are vivid but sometimes confusingly located in the text, and her autobiographical comments, while giving life to the argument, do not always flow happily into the generalizations she attempts to make...
...earth that separates two more widely divergent standards of living, and conflicts over trade, illegal immigration and drug smuggling have soured relations between the neighboring nations. Energy Secretary James Schlesinger made matters worse by his high-handed treatment of Mexican envoys (see following story). Then, to stem the northward flow of illegal immigrants (nearly 1 million last year), U.S. authorities proposed sealing off parts of the frontier with sharpened steel-mesh fencing. Mexican newspapers indignantly accused the U.S. of raising 'the tortilla curtain...
...Schelling's 1960 The Strategy of Conflict, a work he had come across at Stanford. He stabbed his wrists with broken glass, producing pools of blood that horrified his guards and made them end their interrogations. "I felt the only way I could really deter and stop the flow of questioning was to show a commitment to death," remembers Stockdale. "I don't think that I intended to die, but I intended to make them think that I was ready to die." That act earned him the Medal of Honor...