from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun The act or process of flowing out.
noun Something that flows out.
noun The amount flowing out.
intransitive verb To issue or stream out, in or as if in a flow.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun A flowing out or forth; efflux; issue.
To flow out.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun A flowing out; efflux.
intransitive verb To flow out.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun The process of flowingout
verb intransitive To flow outward.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun a natural flow of ground water
noun the discharge of a fluid from some container
noun the process of flowing out
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And now we have some what we call outflow boundaries, some air that was thrown out of thunderstorms, pushed to the ground and then we made a big gust of wind.
Then privatization has no effect on the solvency of the Trust Fund; it reduces inflow to the Trust Fund to the same degree it reduces outflow from the Trust Fund.
I think you misrepresent their statement when you quote them as saying privatization has no effect on the solvency of the Trust Fund; it reduces inflow to the Trust Fund to the same degree it reduces outflow from the Trust Fund.
I disagree with both of the comments - privatization has no effect on the solvency of the Trust Fund; it reduces inflow to the Trust Fund to the same degree it reduces outflow from the Trust Fund
* Thebest-case scenario: Containment chambers are put in place and they catch the outflow from the three ruptures that are currently pouring 200,000 gallons of oil into the Gulf every day.
Jeffrey A. Miron and Kevin M. Murphy write, privatization has no effect on the solvency of the Trust Fund; it reduces inflow to the Trust Fund to the same degree it reduces outflow from the Trust Fund.
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