Fwd: transitive 'flow'
Bill Palmer
w_a_palmer at BELLSOUTH.NET
Thu Mar 25 19:38:13 UTC 2010
Well speaking of NPR, I just heard Urban League director Marc Morial point
out how good it was to have health care reform "after yo, these many years".
Sounded quite urban indeed.
Bill Palmer
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From: "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
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>>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'
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>>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
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> I figure if we can grow our economy, we can certainly flow aid into Haiti.
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> LH
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