Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...room to room. There are the rows and columns of identical desks equipped with identical chairs. The officials have endless meetings and conferences and appointments. The staffers debate which color pen is appropriate for which report. The secretaries discuss where to file the reports. If someone is sick the flow of work goes on to all appearances unchanged around the empty desk. To disregard a novel as part of a fringe genre because it considered the impact of technology would be to ignore a fact of life. Lem extrapolates to a nightmarish future to write the problems large. A realistic...
Cash Crisis. Most gas retailers operate on a close-to-the-knuckle cash flow; they must pay their suppliers on demand, often on a day-to-day basis. Most Midwestern utilities are able to maintain this balance of payments because consumption is way up and the majority of customers are still paying. But in New England, where homeowners typically heat with oil, the cash crisis is becoming lethal. Wholesalers, especially the major oil companies, have screwed down credit limits so tight that dealers in Boston are being given as little as five days to pay for shipments. At the same...
Although Clifton cautioned that the flow could decrease by June, when the annual drive ends, he said he was fairly certain the Fund would meet or surpass this year's goal of $5.7 million...
...group was suffering from management, money and drug problems. Santana himself, pressured by sudden stardom was "watching the band decay on the wrong energy flow...what I was really seeking was illumination not satisfaction." Santana went to Sri Chinmoy, the Ceylonese guru who'd helped John McLaughlin. McLaughlin, whose rock-jazz had been increasingly influenced by Indian raga music, had adopted the philosophy of creating his music as an offering to a Supreme Being. Santana took similar steps towards peace and enlightenment--to the point where he wrote "God Himself is the musician." The band became increasingly jazz-oriented after...
...wonder the flow of the game was so bad. Each player skated as if he needed double-runners. It was as if the guys were doing poor Mr. Frick imitations by taking spectacular spills, especially as they flew head-first into the benches...