Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...following week. Burns, in a typically Delphic passage in a speech, left policywatchers guessing as to whether any such deal had been struck. Most common guess: no. Besides, Burns is only primus inter pares on the Reserve's twelve-man Open Market Committee, which regulates the money flow. A number of anti-inflation hawks on the committee, notably the New York Federal Reserve's Alfred Hayes, recently voted against faster expansion...
...music, philosophy, ethics, the demonic element in the creative process, and a good deal else which I have never felt at liberty to repeat. He also talked of Goethe, Byron, Wagner, Ibsen, Emerson, Brahms, of his own preference in working hours, of what to do when the spring refusesto flow, and about his relationship with his publishers...
...BRINGING the war home" is more than a rallying slogan for street-fighting and anti-war actions. The phrase also suggests the flow of information through the media which familiarizes the American people with the realities of the war. TV correspondents call Vietnam the "living room war" since a bloody picture on the home TV screen is much more powerful than a printed story or casualty list in the daily newspaper...
...America's immense technological complex in Indochina-sophisticated and deadly as it is-has moved only haltingly to provide complete military victory. Daily pounding of the Ho Chi Minh trail by America's entire Southeast Asian B-52 fleet has failed to stop the flow of supplies from the North (raids on supply depots in the North are probably being contemplated as a result). In fact, the entire war has tied down America's air apparatus so extensively that the U. S. military would be hard-pressed to mount a comparable offensive if confronted with other wars of national liberation...
...Senator was William Proxmire, Wisconsin Democrat. He has led some lonely fights in the past, but none seemed as desperate as his campaign against the SST. The nation has already spent $800 million on the plane; last year, when Proxmire made a similar attempt to cut off the flow of money, he was defeated 58 to 22. But for the past eight months, he has been joined by a sizable citizens' army of environmentalists, including members of the Sierra Club, the National Wildlife Federation and the Wilderness Society...