Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...creates its own commercials for its films, and pummels local markets with five-to seven-day TV blitzes before a film opens. Another innovation is the "host" system. Under it, D-D representatives collect the company's share of box-office receipts nightly at each theater, speeding cash flow. Says Dayton: "The faster you can get your money out, the sooner you can go into production on your next film...
...foreseeable−which in fact were not met−to avoid any chance of having to apologize to the boss for overrunning their targets. There were also some mechanical delays in handing out federal contracts. For a while, some economists believed that the money not spent in 1976 would flow out in 1977, lessening the need for stimulus, but the prevailing belief now is that no such thing will happen...
Whatever his reason, Carter did get a crash course of sorts in foreign affairs from the commission. The commission's voluminous flow of reports has ranged over ocean management, the strains on democracy, aid to the world's poorest nations, and the global energy crisis...
...reductions for individuals under the Jones plan would average 19% for taxpayers with incomes below $20,000, but would only average 4% for taxpayers with higher incomes. About 72% of the benefits would flow to workers earning less than $20,000. They and more affluent taxpayers who would get only the 4% cut would receive benefits either through alterations of existing tax brackets or through increasing the personal tax credit from the current...
...looking for The Return of One Hundred Years of Solitude. Instead of creating a swarm of characters, he has really animated only the Patriarch, whose monologue distills all other voices. And rather than using his blunt, ironic prose, he has fashioned an elaborate rhetoric that washes everything into a flow of phrases and thoughts...