Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interpreted every word in the same way, but I'm pretty sure we set a few facts straight. First off, I was American, and I didn't think Kissinger was "beautiful." In token of the pleasure this information gave them, they lit me a cigarrette--one in an alarming flow, since they insisted on taking my nauseated refusal for shyness. When I used the Serbian version of thank you, they revised my meager vocabulary to fit their own dialect. Two of them were professors; the pudgy man who showed off a snapshot of his daughter in return for a look...
...found there. If the questioners do not challenge Carter this week, Ford will. Says one top adviser: "He still hasn't gotten over that high feeling of Kansas City. I walked into his room that night and he was still dripping with perspiration. It was a beautiful adrenaline flow." His staff Relieves Ford can get away with being tougher than Carter in the debate because the President is seen by an overwhelming majority of the public as a nice...
...nature of the administrative work itself doesn't really permit impersonality. The department caters to students and it would be impossible to reduce the players to the numbers and statistics of the Registrar's office. Francis Toland, the department's business manager, describes Boylston street as "a continual flow of bodies," students with questions and problems that have to be dealt with before the teams can begin to play...
Watson's office is up on the third floor of the building, high over the Boylston Street traffic. Sixty Boylston is set up almost exactly like a bureaucratic flow chart, with decisionmakers--Watson and two assistant directors of Athletics--at the top, intermediate staffers on the second floor, and student managers in the basement. Jean MacIver, Watson's administrative assistant, says it was organized that way on purpose when Watson moved in four years ago, so that top administrators wouldn't be constantly interrupted by students needing help with minor details. But no one is really removed from...
...success or failure of the new schedules will immediately affect the financial well-being of the networks. The bigger the audience for any show, the fatter the advertising revenues that flow into the network: a winner can charge up to $140,000 a minute for commercials, enough to pay the entire cost of a 30-minute show; a loser may get only $90,000. The difference of one Nielsen rating point for a season, reflected in advertising rates, can mean the loss or gain of $15 million in one year...