Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter learned about the Hussein arrangement only when Post Reporter Bob Woodward (of Watergate fame) began making inquiries. The President stopped the flow of funds, reasoning -whatever reservations he may also have had about the propriety of the practice-that the fact that the story was about to be revealed by the Post made the payouts a liability...
...Soviet Union and East Europe have used the Communist governments' ratification of Helsinki as a lever to press for liberalization on many fronts, such as censorship and immigration-with scant success. The Kremlin and the other East bloc regimes have no intention of permitting the free flow of ideas and people that Helsinki calls...
Heated tropical air rises and flows from the equator toward the colder polar regions, while cold polar air flows toward the equator. The planet's eastward rotation skews the movement of air and causes the prevailing westerly winds that blow from North America toward Europe, and roar across the southern oceans. Topographical features, such as land masses and mountains, and uneven heating patterns further alter the air flow. The result is the assortment of high-and low-pressure regions and the winds that give the earth its weather...
...these questions raised by the energy shortage: "Do you really think that the people out of the market because of unemployment can be counted on to return, and in what numbers, and when?" American Motors will undoubtedly hang on in the sales race, but its hopes for stopping the flow of red ink are once more in the hands of outside forces...
...Haley has made well over $1 million in royalties, and the money seems bound to flow in even faster. To promote the book, he is making a three-month lecture tour. In addition, a two-record album telling of his hunt for roots will soon be on the market; a more detailed version will be forthcoming as a book, titled Search. Finally, he says, there are plans for further TV series, perhaps concentrating on young Kunta Kinte in Africa or his descendants' story just after the Civil...