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Wed 5 May, 2004 03:03 pm
I suspect "flow from = come from" below:
That oft-repeated - but rarely heeded - warning is the hard lesson that flows from the decision yesterday by a federal jury to convict Frank P. Quattrone, the former investment banker, on charges that he tried to hinder an investigation of how his firm allocated shares of new stock offerings.
Yes, it is a visual image of a liquid pouring through an opening. It's most common use is to indicate that a result is inevitable.