Word: flows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Amid the jumble of stalls, dense with the flow of human traffic and clattering with the din of vendors hawking wares, shoppers poke animals for tenderness and watch closely as purchases are weighed in hand-held balance scales, and mothers quiet crying children with cuts of sugarcane or towering lollipops of golden caramelized sugar pulled into flamboyant dragons...
...list of serious contenders may be quickly pared by the SSC's + requirements: 16,000 acres of donated land, a flow of between 500 and 2,200 gallons of water a minute and up to 250 megawatts of power, as well as accessibility to a major airport, so the world's scientists can fly in and out. According to Scientific American, the front runners in the accelerator SSC race appear to be Illinois, California, Texas, Washington, Colorado, Ohio and Utah...
...additional 89 students will be able to live on campus next fall because the Quad renovations will be completed and one block of Jordan will be converted into flow-over Quad housing, said Assistant Dean for the House System Thomas A. Dingman...
...Wise men have remarked on patterns of alternation, of ebb and flow in human history," writes Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in The Cycles of History. Emerson observed that "the two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and the party of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made . . . Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement." But that can be tricky. Reagan in his way was no conservative and was something of an innovator, who tried, with limited success, to reverse deep-rooted Government...
Royalle's four films are considered the best examples of porn in the feminist style. The sex scenes flow from female passion and needs, not male lechery, and women tend to initiate the sex. In Daughters, the male leads are unremittingly sensitive and determined not to dominate. When one of the three daughters gets a job in London, her boyfriend cheerfully changes jobs to follow her abroad. The youngest sister, after an endless series of chaste dates with a refined boyfriend, consummates the affair as the film ends. Says Royalle: "Women like the buildup, the tension -- Will...