Word: stream
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about 3:15 p.m., the fire alarm roused the girls and sent them scampering onto the Quad. Inside the dormitory, Cambridge firemen hunted down the conflagation--which sent a slight stream of smoke from the living floor ceiling--and put it out rapidly...
...Dino the Dinosaur, who somehow got a crick in the long neck he cranes-a crick that turned into a crack when the rain began to work into it. But contrary to pre-fair predictions of hideous tie-ups, fair-bound cars flowed in an untroubled, purring stream...
Expertness in any one of these takes years to acquire. Yet Dr. Moore reports in Science that the Brigham is getting a stream of visitors who hope to spend only a few days learning the techniques before returning home to try transplants. Some restraint is needed to protect patients, says Dr. Moore. And the hazards are not limited to such rare operations as transplants. Even so common a procedure as giving a general anesthetic, he says, still carries enough risk to demand practitioners who are both expert and experienced...
...Perfidy." Now enter Udall's Reclamation Commissioner Floyd E. Dominy, who looked downriver toward Lake Mead and Hoover Dam, major power source for the Lower Basin states of Arizona and California. Lake Mead, too, was suffering from a water shortage. After studying the stream flow forecasts, Dominy last month decided that Hoover Dam could not maintain the surface storage of 14.5 million acre-feet that it needs...
Taxes & Land. All week long, Castello Branco received a steady stream of bankers and businessmen, economists and social scientists-all those to whom the deposed João Goulart had often refused to listen. Out of the meetings came the broad outline of his program for Brazil. He intends, say his advisers, to encourage foreign investment, overhaul tax collection and increase revenues, limit inflationary bank credit, set up an independent central bank to control the currency presses. The government's wild spending will be cut and its mammoth bureaucracy trimmed to happier size...