Word: outflowing
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...Federal Reserve and dozens of banks began supplying billions in funds in an effort to stop the panic. A package of more than $10 billion in loans was offered, but it was only the FDlC's pledge to protect all deposits, no matter how big, that halted the outflow of funds...
...aliens' homelands so that the immigrants keep coming, in numbers that even police-state controls would be hard put to stop. Indeed, to the extent that Simpson-Mazzoli succeeds in slowing the stream, it might replace one problem with another: new strains in U.S. relations with Mexico. The outflow of workers functions as a kind of safety valve for that country, providing an escape for people who cannot be usefully employed in the Mexican economy and would contribute to social and political unrest if they had to stay home...
Although the precise terms of the agreement have not been made public, Japan is believed to have freed the yen to make it more available for trading on international currency markets. Tokyo will also reduce restrictions on the outflow of the yen and improve the access of foreign banks to the Japanese money market. That means other nations can reduce some of their dollar holdings and start acquiring yen deposits, which should drive up the currency's price in the process...
...with aesthetic pleasure. No doubt about it, Picasso painted many bad and some flatly absurd pictures at the end of his life. But the good ones are so good, and in such a weird way, that they utterly transfix the eye, while the drawings (and some of the vast outflow of etchings) possess an assurance, a sensuous ferocity that no other living artist could approach, let alone rival...
...tough belt-tightening package that included higher prices for tobacco and alcohol, and an obligatory taxpayer loan to the government (amounting to 10% of taxes paid in 1982). That was bad enough, but not nearly as controversial as the new restrictions on foreign travel, designed to reduce the outflow of currency...