Word: flows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summer until the Fourth of July. And in fact not all of the omens for the holiday were grim. San Diego was shaken by the most powerful earthquake ever recorded there (4.6 on the Richter scale), but only some vases and plumbing were broken. Neither the new lava flow from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano nor the tornadoes that swirled through eastern Iowa and northern Illinois killed anyone. Not good news, but not disasters either: if those were acts of God, at least he pulled his punches. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Steven Holmes/Hoover Dam, with other bureaus
...challenges the common assumption that the money supply is expanding too fast. He notes that M2 and M3, two broader measures of money that include various types of savings accounts, are growing within their target ranges. The narrower M1 figures, he adds, may have been distorted by the swift flow of money into new kinds of interest-bearing checking deposits like the so-called Super-NOW accounts. "I believe," says Eckstein, "that M1 at the moment means nothing. It would be a great mistake to raise interest rates...
...after NASA'S old Office of Space and Terrestrial Applications), which will test such technologies as glass forming, alloy making and crystal growing in weightlessness. Two other experiments are repeat efforts aimed at producing superpure pharmaceuticals and precisely shaped latex particles for use in medical tasks like blood-flow measurement...
...product flow is no less staggering than the live tours: two Menudo movies (which only a mother or a fan could love), ten record albums (total sales: 3 million) and four years of weekly half-hour TV programs. Remember Monkees lunch boxes? A Menudo school bag sells for $16. Menudo, in fact, may be the Strawberry Shortcake of Latin American product licensing. There are Menudo T shirts and sun visors, wristwatches and jeans...
...insurgents receive a limited but steady flow of arms smuggled over the mountain passes from Pakistan by hand and by horseback. (Guerrillas are routinely expected to carry a rifle and 500 cartridges for 24 hours without rest.) Most of the weapons are leftovers from Soviet military aid programs in Egypt and China, given to the mujahedin by the governments of those countries. They generally include Soviet-made Kalashnikov rifles, bazookas and portable antitank rocket launchers (RPG-7s). Against Soviet air attacks the rebels have only a few ZPU-1 14.5-mm machine guns and hundreds of 12.7-mm DShK heavy...