Word: stream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...miles from Bogota to the great markets of New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. It owns an armada of ships and planes, and it has recruited an army of bush pilots, seamen, electronics experts, roustabouts and cutthroats. Though the Mafia is starting to move in on this stream of gold, the connection is still operated mainly by Colombians (some 70,000 families are believed to be involved), most of them novices or small-time entrepreneurs. It is by far the largest business in Colombia, providing more revenue than coffee; it is also, astonishingly enough, the largest retail business in Florida...
...Olympus Mons picture is actually not a single photo but a mosaic of small ones. Mechanical shutters on the Viking cameras snap a stream of images that are broken into their constituent colors by a series of filters. Eventually an electronic beam scans the resulting image, translates it into tiny electrical impulses (8.7 million per photo) and sends them to earth...
...price rise announced by the OPEC cartel will hurt almost all industrial nations. The extra costs will amount to about $6 billion for the U.S., some $2 billion for West Germany and roughly $1.5 billion each for France and Italy. With North Sea oil on stream, Britain should weather the increase without trouble...
...brown, eroded hills, broad turbulent rivers, and tens of thousands of dusty mud-walled villages. Rainfall is so irregular and water so scarce that for thousands of years peasants of these villages, armed with picks and shovels, have fought one another over rights to the flow of a tiny stream or canal. Summers bring searing heat; the harsh winds of fall and winter spread stinging particles of yellow dust from the Gobi, a desert as empty as Africa's Sahara...
...Like a stream growing into a mighty river, Jimmy Carter's presidency has become very personal. His face-to-face success at Camp David gave the demand for his presence an immeasurable stimulus. Now almost every issue and dispute that is not routine is carried to the White House in search of Carter's healing touch. It may be the best or the worst thing that has happened to him-no one is sure just yet. Last week he was hurrying around Washington in his limousine, jumping in and out of his tuxedo, shuffling speech texts and telephone...