Word: flows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Here the Harvard band redeemed itself. Mired in propriety throughout the day, give or take an occasional shouted grotesquerie ("Break their arms off, break their legs off, we love football!"), they finally came to life. Champagne was produced for the hanky-waving ritual, and the flow of Mumm inspired Will Moore, the 6-ft. 6-in. drum major, to pour a quart or two into his size-13 sneaker and drink from it. Other bandies joined...
...Aubuisson, president of El Salvador's Constituent Assembly and head of the right-wing ARENA Party, some of whose members have been linked to the killings. The next day, however, President Reagan vetoed a bill that would have extended a provision under which U.S. military aid can flow to El Salvador only if the Administration assures Congress every six months that the country is improving its human rights record. The White House move drew angry denunciations from Capitol Hill. Said Democratic Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island: "We will not stand by to see U.S. military assistance poured into...
...upon captured U.S. weapons to meet their military needs, not upon arms smuggled in from Nicaragua, Cuba or the Soviet Union. The guerrillas received supplies from Nicaragua during the early stages of the civil war, but by last spring some U.S. officials in the region were admitting that the flow had slowed to a "trickle." Nonetheless, the Administration has justified its support of rebels fighting Nicaragua's Marxist-led government largely on the ground that their actions are necessary to stop the stream of arms and the "export of revolution" from Nicaragua to El Salvador...
Communications clerks sit here 24 hours a day, directing the flow of police around the University. The equipment in the room has changed little since the room was built in 1979-with one exception: a wheeled trundle, installed this summer, now brings a computer terminal within inches of the clerk's elbow...
...addition, he noted, the Administration has consolidated the Drug Enforcement Administration with the FBI This has allowed the FBI to use its special skills--like its ability to follow the flow of money--in the fight against drug trafficking. which he called "our number one crime problem...