Word: streamingly
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...surprisingly, this stream of hostility took its toll. The biting self-confidence of Roth's early prose-seems to have yielded to a tone of resignation and uncertainty...
...basic mechanism of lasers is now familiar: they emit a concentrated stream of intense light powerful enough to melt metal. Experimental U.S. lasers have tracked and destroyed small missiles in flight; last May in California the Airborne Laser Lab was 5 for 5 firing at supersonic Sidewinders. But a device powerful and precise enough to be practical for nuclear defense cannot yet be built...
...last spring some U.S. officials in the region were admitting that the flow had slowed to a "trickle." Nonetheless, the Administration has justified its support of rebels fighting Nicaragua's Marxist-led government largely on the ground that their actions are necessary to stop the stream of arms and the "export of revolution" from Nicaragua to El Salvador...
...store. So far the company thinks it has succeeded. In the new stores, according to Brennan, "the average transaction per customer is substantially higher. In towels, washcloths, carpeting, toilet covers, for instance, people are picking up armfuls." At new stores in King of Prussia, Pa., and Valley Stream, N.Y., sales per sq. ft. are projected to be 50% higher than at newly opened traditional stores...
...most of the past decade, the money flowed like oil from the local gushers. All told, nearly $1 trillion poured into the sparsely populated, energy-rich Arab states along the Persian Gulf.* Now that stream has dwindled sharply. This year the region will take in only about $60 billion in oil revenues, down one-third from 1982 and only about one-half the level of two years...