Word: flows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Heraclitus said a man cannot stand in the same river twice, the flow of things being what it is; 1960 and 1988 are not only different rivers, they run in different courses altogether. It is startling to remember now that Kennedy's Catholicism was the single greatest issue of the campaign and almost unhorsed him in a race he won by less than 120,000 votes. It is a trivia question to ask which two islands off the coast of mainland China received inordinate attention during the second and third television debates between Kennedy and Nixon (Quemoy and Matsu). Both...
Style: Style also communicates a message. Staccato phrases or incomplete sentences such as "Designed data collection system. Analyzed data and prepared 60-page report" give an efficient, action-oriented impression. For some people, the flow of complete sentences is more suitable...
...attended to a few glitches, including a nagging problem in the craft's cooling system and a balky antenna on a communications instrument, which they managed to retract. They worked on science experiments, played tapes of classical and pop music and shot pictures of Pacific thunderstorms, of a lava flow in Ethiopia and of coastal erosion wreaked by Hurricane Gilbert in Yucatan...
...under the collar about the temperature of their rooms can stop steaming: as of Columbus Day, Harvard's heat will be running on a computer-controlled thermostat. And until that date, a phone call to the "Hotline" can lead to those few keypresses that make the steam flow and fingers thaw...
...Yard clean is more important than allowing some of the University's publications to reach their Freshman audiences. The Civil Liberties Union of Harvard believes that in our society freedom of expression is one of our most important freedoms. Within the University in particular, the value of the flow of ideas assumes central importance...