Word: pours
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Excessive regulation. Companies have had to pour more and more money into costly antipollution equipment and devote increasing attention to complying with health and safety rules, rather than buying productive machinery and figuring out more efficient operating methods. Though lives undoubtedly have been saved and the air and water cleansed, the price has been high. The CEA estimates that regulation may be cutting annual nonfarm productivity growth by four-tenths of a percentage point...
...aliens are doing the same. Germans and Italians are the heaviest investors, followed by the British, French, Belgians, Canadians and Dutch. Neither the Arabs nor the Japanese seem to be in the market. Most of the buyers are good neighbors who often lease the land back to Americans and pour in development money to introduce modern, small-farming techniques...
While Yale and Princeton gaily pour...
...sudden clash of gears and a loudly laboring engine stir the place into action. Seconds later, as a flatbed lurches into the market, a hoarse cheer goes up and women pour down stairs and out of doorways. The truck is loaded with sacks of potatoes...
Sing We Noel: Christmas Music from England & Early America (The Boston Camerata, Joel Cohen director, Nonesuch). Charpentier: Messe de Minuit pour Noel; Senate a Six (The Boston Camerata, Joel Cohen director, Desmar). The album of folk-inspired Christmas music, a welcome change from today's homogenized carols, ranges from a 12th century Latin tune, Ad cantus leticie, to a rousing Gloucestershire Wassail from modern Britain. Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Mass, based on French Christmas carols, is a graceful work, and the voices of The Boston Camerata are perfectly balanced...