Word: flows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alleyway below the house, the Marines tried frantically to save the injured. Working in a pool of light cast by a Lebanese boy's flashlight, they applied dressings in a vain attempt to stanch the flow of blood from a stomach wound. When the man died, they moved quickly to help in treating the other casualties. "They kept encouraging a Marine who was wounded in the leg," recalled the boy, Nizar Nassib Kady, 16, whose family lived in the two-story residence underneath the Marine position. "They kept saying to him, 'Don't give up hope.' They were nervous...
...Aside from giving Damascus an estimated $600 million in cheap oil, the Ayatullah has bestowed his blessing on Assad's minority Alawites, a sect that most Sunnis consider heretical. In return, Damascus has shut down the Iraqi oil pipeline that slices across Syria to the Mediterranean, thereby slowing the flow of petrodollars to the financially strapped Baghdad government...
Robert Crandall, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, agrees that setting up import barriers is futile. "Shutting down a product flow in one direction simply means that steel comes in from some other country," he said. "We cannot raise prices in the U.S. relative to the rest of the world and then complain about the deindustrialization of America...
...enjoyable movie but is instead painful, especially during the scenes preceding Kevin's death. But on the other hand it plunges into the lives of Karen Silkwood and her friends without sensationalizing the struggle against bigger and more powerful foes. The poignant acting and cinematography make the film flow gently towards its graveyard end, while it is the actual story of Silkwood's life that leaves the deepest impression...
...attempts to control the flow of information and thereby define the nature of public debate. At various times, the President has proposed strict rules on contact between officials and reporters, used the FBI to track down embarrassing leaks, and moved to reduce the scope of the Freedom of Information Act and to impose lifetime Government censorship on tens of thousands of officials who have had access to classified information...