Word: flows
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...flow of histories and cultures," Lawrence Durrell once wrote of Cyprus, "it has time and time again been a flashpoint where Aryan and Semite, Christian and Moslem, met in a death-embrace." The legendary island of Aphrodite gained independence from Britain a decade ago. Yet it remains an uneasy homeland to 490,000 Greek Cypriots, most of whom have traditionally espoused enosis (union with Greece), and 110,000 Turkish Cypriots, who have long favored partition of the island. In December 1963, savage fighting broke out between the two communities. In November 1967, war between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus...
...bitter skits flow into one another, using actors as interchangeable parts, a cast of 17 playing 88 roles, stylized and depersonalized. They reach hallucinatory heights. Once, Ionesco simply puts two rooms onstage, furnishes them identically with a bed, a chair and a wait ing woman, and brings their men to them defying the curfew. "I had given up hope," each woman says, and from there the dialogues of loving, reassuring cliches go on in strict musical parallel, words and acts in either room echoing within moments in the other...
Managers are scrambling to get the most out of their money. More than ever, they are trying to earn extra income with their cash flow by buying and selling short-term commercial paper. Treasury bills, and Eurodollars -even for a weekend. Financial vice presidents and accountants, always key men in management, are becoming increasingly important. Some companies use creative accounting maneuvers to raise their short-term profits-for example, amortizing over several years costs that in fatter times were simply deducted from profits all at once. "I have never known a period in which clients have made more ingenious suggestions...
...organizers from all over the country streamed into Case Western Reserve's (C. W. R. U.) student union last night in preparation for the Student Mobilization Committee's (SMC) weekend conference here. By 9:30 p. m. the 2600 spaces allotted for bedrolls had all been claimed, and the flow of incoming delegates showed no sign of decreasing...
Crooks said the Summer School has "increasingly tight resources" and indicated that he is considering an alternative, less expensive method of "providing a relevant flow of information to our students and faculty...