Word: flows
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Initially, the ostensible reason for funding the contras was to stanch the flow of aid that Nicaragua supplied to rebels in El Salvador. Now the objectives are diffuse: by keeping the Sandinistas off balance, the insurrection may soften them up to make political concessions. Yet concessions require serious negotiations and in January, Washington suspended the talks that U.S. and Nicaraguan officials had been having in Mexico since last June. The State Department is nevertheless still hopeful about persuading Congress to subsidize the contras. "Motley's testimony was only our first shot," said one official. "We have not yet begun...
...Ginsberg is confronting one of life's simple truths: one cannot step into the same cash flow twice. His annual income rarely exceeds $40,000, yet for years he has contributed funds to help impoverished friends and artists. "I have some power and money," he says, "but I don't know if I can keep it up much longer. I'm getting too old to run around. I need somewhere I can die in peace." His choice would be a large loft where he could have a Buddhist shrine room and space to organize the books, papers and projects that...
...money will not begin to flow for at least six months, according to Mehren, who is also a member of the foundation...
...conservative argument, at least the way I've always heard it best explicated, involves no such complicated reasoning. At heart, libertarian militarism merely affirms that "man must be free." Thence flow the arguments for dynamiting the Department of Health and Human Services and so forth, in hopes of getting government out of the middle class's face and maximizing aggregate freedom in society. Also, the "man must be free" orthodoxy leads to things like B-1B bombers and ROTC to crush communism, fascism and other systems resembling the Soviet Union, all of which curtail freedom. It's a pretty good...
Harvard researchers are also concerned about an ongoing crackdown by the Reagan Administration on the flow of academic information. National Security Directive 84, instituted in March 1983, requires approximately 120,000 federal employees--if they wish to have access to classified information--to sign a agreement by which they will submit for government approval all subsequent speeches and publications...