Word: flows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...complex built to accommodate the automobile in, around and out of high-rises. At the 1939 New York World's Fair, visitors to the seductive General Motors pavilion rode in moving chairs through a 1,700-ft. display of vast expressways designed to effortlessly handle the projected traffic flow...
Although Pentagon officials concede a need for additional ammunition and supplies to increase the Army's staying power in a conflict, the flow of modern...
McCormack gives detailed advice on how executives can save time. He says that a manager should rarely accept a phone call. That would interrupt his work flow. Instead, he should return the call at a convenient time. McCormack considers most staff meetings unproductive. Says he: "If more than four or five people are in attendance, decision making is probably next to impossible...
...open to the public, these courts have held, they must remain so. In Hawaii a tough law forced even the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, one of the world's poshest resorts, to build an access path to the beach for the public. The hotel, however, has reduced the flow of ordinary tourists by charging high parking fees. Such indirect attempts to limit beach-going crowds are common. Resort towns often impose parking restrictions and stiff bridge and beach tolls for nonresidents. But these too are being attacked. In Florida this month, Governor Bob Graham authorized local officials...
Those events last week may have been signs that reporters are beginning to flex their muscles after a relatively sedate primary season. But they also reflected an age-old controversy over who controls the flow of news. Politicians, particularly during campaigns, structure their schedules to communicate carefully chosen messages. Reporters rightly insist on making their own judgments about news rather than merely being conduits for what politicians want publicized...