Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hour rush of crude oil into 13 separate storage tanks, some big enough for full-court basketball. The ship must settle on an even keel, yet the tanks cannot be filled simultaneously because it could lead to spills. Portz has to route, or "pinch," the flow back and forth to maintain a rough equilibrium. "Right now you've got to avoid having everything top off at once," he concludes in mixed landlubber jargon. "It's like filling a lot of bathtubs. You have to keep them from running over...
...Wollo and Tigre provinces, crops had been scourged by a deadly fungus known as ergot. The fungus, called St. Anthony's fire in medieval days, creates an unholy dilemma. Anyone who eats the infected grain risks the danger of a circulatory disorder that eventually blocks blood flow and causes gangrene. The alternative is starvation. FAO experts believe that the famine is potentially as crippling as the one that Ethiopia suffered in 1973, when an estimated 200,000 people died...
...emergence of the child's thinking mind, at around 15 months, brings wrenching change. The static world of symbols, images and concepts replaces the world of simple motion and action-the child can no longer simply flow through life. Children will begin to play the role of mother with their dolls, a sign of their dawning awareness that the mother is separate. The child's central idea is that it is not a conqueror after all, but a small and vulnerable self. Instead of wooing the mother, the child makes more and more coercive demands that...
Brzezinski is the only senior White House official authorized to be chauffeured to work each day, giving him time to start on some 400 pages of intelligence reports and option papers that flow past him daily. He is often at his desk by 6:45 a.m., and ends the day at 8 or 9 p.m., after eating dinner alone at his desk. His only break is for lunch. Sometimes Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin, the only ambassador so favored, comes by for a noontime sandwich. The two doff their coats and eat at a small round table in Brzezinski...
...Okla., hospital official admits: "We come dangerously close to spending more to control the flow of money and comply with guidelines than we actually get from grants." Califano has managed to cut an estimated 9.5 million hours from the 47 million hours a year that are spent on HEW forms, but he admits that it is hard to notice the difference. Says Education Commissioner Ernest Boyer: "The problem is that you have five people in one town who are affected and 50 in another, and they never get together to celebrate. It's not noticeable because it's so spread...