Word: channelized
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Chewing on a thumbnail, Bosch continued: "I am going back because my party calls me. You now have something new-the capacity of the people to fight. This can be channeled for good or for ill. 1 shall return to try my best to channel it for the good. But I don't know the situation...
...chartered airliner was searched. When Bosch arrived in Santo Domingo, a few scattered shots greeted his caravan as it sped from the airport into the old rebel zone of the city; no one was hit. Then before 60,000 screaming supporters, he began to speak again-and to "channel," as he said, "the capacity of the people." Cried Bosch: "The next President must take a suit before the World Court in The Hague, asking $1 billion in damages from the U.S., so the interventions will never occur again." As for other members of the OAS peace force, Bosch demanded...
Precisely because the vast but limited supply is indispensable, water has inevitably aroused bitter disputes; the very word "rival" was used in Roman law as a term for those who shared the water of a rivus, or irrigation channel. The U.S. Supreme Court last year had to settle a longstanding feud between Arizona and California over use of the waters of the Colorado River. Continuing Mexican complaints have finally persuaded the U.S. to agree to dig a canal to divert salt-polluted waters from Arizona irrigation runoff before they can re-enter the Colorado and flow past Mexican cropland...
...church leaders see no or little danger in federal support of church-associated agencies. Methodist Bishop James Mathews of Boston argues that Project Head Start, for example, is not Government subsidy of religion, since "the church is not receiving the benefit of the money but offering itself as a channel. The church, as a church, is not receiving the money." The president of the Lutheran Church in America, Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, agrees. "We believe that the proper relationship is one of functional interaction," he says. "As we see it, the divinely instituted missions of the church and state...
...warrants to Ireland for them. Indeed, Britain's own law still lacks the "royal assent" needed to make it official, leaving Britain's Irish fugitives safe for some weeks to come. When the new system does shake down, though, the crook's tour across the Irish Channel will apparently be ended forever...