Word: flows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shot. Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call are descended from the noble buddy system of American literature. Exotically paired males, like Natty Bumppo and Chingachgook, Ishmael and Queequeg, Huck and Jim, fling themselves at the wilderness and sooner or later paddle into the mainstream. McCrae and Call join the mythic flow by stealing a herd of Mexican cattle and driving them from Texas to Montana. Why leave semiretirement and undertake a journey better suited for younger men? One answer is that Lonesome Dove would be a dull book if the two remained proprietors of the Hat Creek Cattle Co. & Livery Emporium...
Administration officials, who had been cautioning against expecting anything of consequence to flow from Hussein's visit, were pleasantly surprised and intrigued. After a boat ride on the Potomac with the King, Secretary of State George Shultz was encouraged by what Hussein had told him about his latest discussions with Arafat. While emphasizing that many diplomatic obstacles remained, Shultz later declared, "There is motion today. The King's visit has given impetus to the process of peacemaking...
...negotiations, I obviously mean negotiations between the Arab side and Israel on the other side." The U.S. did not dismiss the umbrella concept out of hand, but it made public a set of conditions for Soviet participation. Among them: establishing full diplomatic relations with Israel and reducing the flow of arms to Iran and the warring Lebanese factions...
...Sayed Majrooh, head of the independent Afghan Information Center in Peshawar, Pakistan, last week. According to Majrooh, Soviet troops, backed by jet fighters and helicopter gunships, have been seizing strategic mountain passes along Afghanistan's rugged border with Pakistan. The objective is to cut once and for all the flow of arms and supplies from Pakistan to Afghan resistance fighters...
Charles Schultze, a senior fellow at Washington's Brookings Institution, warned that the U.S. could not rely on foreign capital indefinitely. Though he doubted that interest rates will rise anytime soon, he said that a diminished flow of money from overseas could eventually drive up the cost of borrowing. The only way to keep rates down, Schultze maintained, would be to slash the federal deficit. Said he: "If more is not done about the budget problem, we will probably see interest rates a lot higher...