Word: flows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from much-needed expenditures on food and medicine. But his belief that such arms sales are the cause, and not the result of international rivalries, and that consequently Third World enemies can easily unite against the superpowers and boycott weapons, is deluded. He boldly asserts that "from the weapons flow come the resulting tensions and conflict between the recipients-between India and Pakistan, Iran and Iraq, Israel and the Arab lands, between different factions within Lebanon, on the Sahara, in Central America. "But that explanation overlooks cultural tensions and quests for self determination which proceeded the weapons flow, the Soviet...
TIME overlooked the tide in its reporting of the storm damage along California's coast [Feb. 7]. A big factor contributing to water damage was the highest tide since record keeping began in the early 1920s. This rare flow was aided by the unusual and simultaneous occurrence of three astronomical events: 1) the earth was within days of its closest approach to the sun, the perihelion; 2) the moon was at its closest approach to the center of the earth, the perigee; and 3) the moon's and sun's gravitational pulls were in alignment...
...impale himself on a hypodermic needle. Hawkeye will wonder at the insanity of it all, and wonder too whether he is part of the problem or the solution. And Sherman Potter, who has seen it all before in other wars, will grimace like the Sphinx and let the vinegar flow all the way home...
...same awe and wonder. In Washington's last years, Mount Vernon became a mecca for the great and the grateful, for the curious and the ambitious. So many people arrived at the doorstep that Washington, who would turn none away, finally engaged a social secretary to handle the flow. Sometimes he did not attend the dinners he gave because the company was so numerous and foreign to him. One night when he dined alone with Mrs. Washington, the event was so unusual he made a note of it in his diary...
Wenched said that the uncertain flow of federal assistance made long range planning difficult. "It's a guessing game to suggest the number of units available in the next five years...