Word: faucet
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...serious clash over who controls the Guard, the Defense Department has the power of the purse on its side. "The Governors can't get too cocky," contends a Pentagon official, "or we'll shut off their faucet." Indeed, the Defense Department indirectly threatened to do just that last week. In an attempt to rally Governors and Congressmen against more defense budget cuts, the Pentagon raised the possibility that the National Guard would be seriously hurt by the reductions. For some 140,000 Guardsmen, that could mean unwelcome discharges and even more unwelcome weekends spent mowing the lawn at home rather...
...hearings did make it clear that there had long been doubts about the reliability of the seals at the three joints between the booster rocket's four main segments. Attention remained focused on the two large synthetic rubber O rings set in grooves and designed, like washers in a faucet, to keep the rocket's superhot gases from escaping out the joints...
Mayor Ramón Aguirre of the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party insists that 95% of the inhabitants have access to water, but for many that means one faucet shared by an entire block...
...Paris with a vial of water from the Hudson River. To symbolize Franco-American friendship, she was to pour it into the Seine. She remembered that "all the damn water ran out of the vial on the plane over, and I had to refill it with water from the faucet in my hotel...
...armchair. The Hexhedon PC1 (Neiman-Marcus) may look like Darth Vader's helmet, but around the black leather reclining seat the sybaritic unit includes such accessories as a miniature Sony color TV, a stereo system with color transposer for both interior and exterior light shows, a "thermos faucet system" to supply a flow of beverages, a wireless telephone and "whisper" exhaust fans. Price: $32,000. If a desire to work should suddenly take hold, the relaxing executive can unsnap the 18-karat-gold clasps of a black crocodile attaché case ($25,000, from Dunhill), fitted with two gold...