Fwd: transitive 'flow'

[Laurence Horn]

 From a colleague:

>Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:54:26 -0400
>From: Stanley Insler <stanley.insler at yale.edu>
>To: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
>Subject: transitive 'flow'
>
>
>On NPR on Tues, I heard the director of USAID talk about the
>response to the Haitian earthquake. He said (not absolutely exact
>words), "Once things were organized, we and other countries flowed
>all sorts of help into Haiti." Kinda weird to my ears. -- Stanley

I figure if we can grow our economy, we can certainly flow aid into Haiti.

LH

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