Word: flows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stephenson has been exploring other applications. By wrapping conditioned skeletal muscle into a fist-size pouch, he has created a mini-pumping chamber that he hopes can be used to boost circulation. Implanted in animals, the pouches, which may be located almost anywhere in the body, have enhanced blood flow as much as 20% for eight hours. Stephenson believes that such auxiliary pumps could reduce the need for risky open-heart surgery. They might also obviate the need for transplants for patients whose hearts are weak but not completely failing. Implanting such a pumping chamber would be simpler and cheaper...
...Marriage is a fascinating tradition, and it's the only one left that matters," muses Letitia Baldrige, author of several books on etiquette. "A wedding is a beautiful spectator sport. It pleases everybody immensely. And the presents do flow in." She thinks the resurgence of traditional weddings is "a rebellion against rebellion," a reaction to the free-form tribal rites of the Love and Me decades. "There's a hunger for a little bit of formality," observes Judith Martin, who as Miss Manners writes books of spiky social advice. "It's very natural to enjoy tradition, and it was phony...
...able to deliver on a traditionally unkept campaign promise: he balanced the state budget without new taxes. Using financial analysis software programs to enforce strict fiscal discipline, Sununu turned the $41 million deficit he inherited in 1982 into a record $47.8 million surplus last year. He also streamlined the flow of budgetary data and reorganized New Hampshire's financial reporting systems so that records of all revenue and expenditures were channeled into the state's big IBM mainframe computer. Loading data from the mainframe into desktop machines and analyzing the numbers with Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets, the Governor...
...separate itself from the West, while the West is beginning to disassociate itself from an increasingly unpopular regime. Ironic as it is, the white minority government knows well that an increase in oppression of the press will produce a less enraptured audience in America. With the decline in the flow of information and reports out of South Africa, Americans will be deprived of the vivid pictures and descriptions of violence and protest which egg them on to protest. Congressional interest will dwindle without such public pressure--to the delight of the Pretoria government. As after the Sharpville and Soweto riots...
...fatal procedural flaws be corrected? Rogers is trying to protect his commission's proposals against premature disclosure. "These are for the President," he told his commissioners. Still, some recommendations seem almost obvious. NASA headquarters must take firm control of its sprawling agency, even while cutting back on its paper flow. Anyone in the system holding a strong view on a safety problem must feel free to raise it at any level, rather than being limited to his own reporting channel...