Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatest danger Israel faces is, of course, the U.S. need to appease the Saudis so that the oil may flow...
OPEC Surpluses. The quickening flow of loans to those LDCS that do not produce oil is particularly bothersome. A study by Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. shows that net new international borrowing by these countries leaped by $109 billion from only 1974 through 1976. In all, the non-oil LDCS now owe about $180 billion. Such a huge expansion of overseas lending, mostly by private American financial institutions, heightens the possibility of a series of defaults that could cause panic to spread through international banking. So far, banks have managed to avoid this danger by renewing the loans or stretching...
...recounting sundry vignettes of what life was like for troops serving below staff level. By the time James Caan has got his wounded captain to hospital and Elliott Gould has thrown a temporary bridge across a stream in record time and Robert Redford has led an amphibious assault, the flow of battle has been lost by the moviemakers - and by the audience as well...
...bogged down in management of a staff. I look for good people and give them autonomy to do their jobs." Though Jordan protests-perhaps too much-that he is not an "issues man," he is getting more involved in the shaping of policies; he has made sure that the flow of paper on important subjects is routed across his desk at an initial stage...
Strange currents flow for years in the deeps of the American society, then for reasons unclear suddenly roil to the surface, disturbing the waters and making reasoned discourse impossible. Talking to plants was a minor instance a couple of years ago. People who had always talked to their plants abruptly decided to come out of the closet, as if at a signal. Before the week was out, it seemed, the air waves and the public prints were awash with the commentary of glibsters who said that, by George, something, ; maybe whisky vapors, made talked-to plants grow better...