Word: flows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...European museums have had a steady flow of exhibitions of this kind, but America has been left out of active cultural exchanges," Nisbet said. "Maybe this will begin a change and America can be a beneficiary of this exchange as well," he said...
...another example of a trend already taking place because of market forces. Rather than pump new money into these operations in the unpredictable situation in South Africa, parent companies in the U.S. have been selling off assets or letting branches use their profits to modernize. Result: a net flow of capital from the subsidiaries to their U.S. headquarters rather than the reverse. No U.S. company has moved into South Africa since 1983. Less U.S. business activity in South Africa crimps the country's economic growth, deprives it of technology, but hits black employment hardest...
...guerrilla war from bases in neighboring states. South Africa has effectively neutralized the A.N.C. through agreements, economic pressure and occasional cross-border military strikes. While terror bombings take place and mines, hand grenades and AK-47 assault rifles still kill and wound South Africans, mostly in township violence, the flow of weapons into the country is not enough for an armed insurrection...
...quite specific in his views of how to make houses more pleasant. "Reexamining bourgeois traditions means returning to house layouts that offer more privacy and intimacy than the so-called open plan, in which space is allowed to 'flow' from one room to another," he writes. "A reexamination of the bourgeois tradition of comfort is an implicit criticism of modernity, but it is not a rejection of change...
...banking industry are growing at an estimated 10% or better annually, and last week four of the major New York City institutions reported robust quarterly earnings. Along with the painful contraction taking place in the steel industry, the regional banking woes are the natural result of the ebb and flow of economic tides. While some players may founder, the system shows no signs of sinking...