Word: streamed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hired donkeys to carry our backpacks, but nonetheless had a difficult time reaching the top of the pass that led back out of the Panjshir Valley. As we reached the summit, we saw before us a seemingly unending stream of small guerrilla pack trains, each laden with heavy machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, burlap sacks of ammunition, mortars and AK-47s. The horses stumbled as they tried to climb the zigzagging paths...
...government ignores pressing and unique problems indigenous to different regions. The U.S. sells AWACs to a nation that has declared undying hatred of a close American ally, a conviction that America is only a purveyor of arms, and a desire for friendship with the Soviet Union. It sends a stream of arms into a region traumatized by civil war, in the hope of propping up repressive, but nominally pro-American regimes...
Drysdale's repo troubles had been quietly brewing for weeks, as credit market conditions began to undermine the company's assumption that interest rates were going higher. Instead of the generous profits that Arnold had predicted, Drysdale had a steady stream of losses. The real crisis started last Monday, when the firm failed to meet $250 million in interest due to Chase Manhattan Bank, its principal repo supplier...
...musical trajectory is astonishing. The three-hour show, The Beatles at the Beeb, begins with Hippie Hippie Shake, a good bar-band rave-up, and ends three years later with the jet-stream harmonics of Ticket to Ride. That's a little like getting into outer space before everyone is certain you have even left the ground...
...should not act antagonistically towards religious groups, but instead should provide a neutral setting in which religions can flourish without excessive entanglements with the State. But as one Supreme Court Justice wrote of a group prayer statute two decades ago. "The breach of neutrality that is today a trickling stream may all too soon become a raging torrent." In view of the President's proposal last week, we can only hope that his diagnosis will not soon prove accurate again...