Fwd: transitive 'flow'

[Laurence Horn]

At 3:38 PM -0400 3/25/10, Bill Palmer wrote:
>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.

As in "Yo and behold!"

LH

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>Bill Palmer
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>From: "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
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>Subject: Fwd: transitive 'flow'
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>>>From a colleague:
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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'
>>>
>>>
>>>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.
>>
>>LH
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