Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every American consumer is only too aware, the health and prosperity of the industrialized nations depend directly on the free flow of oil from the 13 OPEC nations. What most Americans do not realize is that the West's economic well-being is also indirectly dependent on the crude being pumped from wells in the Soviet Union. Reason: so delicate is the worldwide balance between supply and demand that a downturn in Soviet production could throw petroleum markets into chaos and set off skyrocketing price rises as a result of a punishing competition for existing supplies. On the other...
Magpie-like, the surrealist imagination was apt to claim whatever it wanted from history, and the London exhibition records this in a number of showcases whose contents punctuate the august and predictable flow of Mirds, Dalis, Ernsts...
...been shaped by these people, how often their fates have been determined by the thinnest chance and circumstance. He looked across the room and spoke of the strange tides that had swept them all along, and now had brought them together again. Indeed, the sequence of power, the flow of events, fascinated everyone. Mrs. Johnson was there because of John Kennedy's assassination, Nixon because Lyndon Johnson had been President, Ford because of Nixon, Rockefeller because of Ford. And maybe Carter was in the room because Ford had not kept Rockefeller as his vice-presidential candidate. Of course, they...
...ardor, his passion, his kindness, his wit, the juices of his undammed Life Force flow through Donnelly's performance. Donnelly captures the nuances of the aging process, the time when the patriarchal beard seems to wag the man. Yet throughout, the actor maintains a conversational urbanity that makes the show a fit companion for two of Shaw's pet abominations, brandy and cigars...
...breaking the winter silence. Hard-hatted construction workers, wrapped to the ears in wool and goose down, are sawing, hammering and pouring concrete. Land speculators in search of property have driven prices as high as $5,000 for a one acre building lot. Money is just starting to flow in, but it gives every sign of becoming an avalanche...