Word: funneled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After all, these monsters of the atmosphere are as unpredictable as sharks, and considerably more dangerous. Just ask the 12,000 residents of Beatrice, Nebraska, whose town was vandalized by a big tornado last week. Or ask Sheriff Donnie Joe Yancey of Izard County, Arkansas, who tangled with the funnel that rampaged through his section of the state last month, killing seven people and injuring 30 more. Yancey was preparing to get out of his jeep, he recalls, when "it got real dark, real still. Then the jeep started rocking and bouncing, I heard...
...Oklahoma's Howard Bluestein really did develop an instrument akin to the device called Dorothy in Twister. Bluestein, who was one of the models for meteorologist Bill Harding (Bill Paxton) in the movie, named his device the Totable Tornado Observatory, TOTO for short, and tried to intercept an oncoming funnel. TOTO was a bit unwieldy (it tipped the scales at 400 lbs.), so researchers switched to the more sprightly Turtles, which are cheaper to build and more easily deployed...
This is a significant departure from the service-oriented "community policing'' introduced during the Dinkins administration, when beat cops were encouraged to be problem solvers for a neighborhood. (Now the patrolmen funnel these issues to their precinct commanders.) The Bratton version of community policing is to devise strategies that target specific criminal behavior. Special squads are dispatched to hit high-crime hot spots, while others track down illegal guns. Precinct detectives now interrogate suspects not just about the crimes they may have committed but also about other gun and drug dealers they know. Eventually, Bratton believes, all the policies begin...
...independent counsel investigating former Clinton Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy obtained his first conviction: a guilty plea from a top Republican political insider and lobbyist. James Lake admitted to taking part in an illegal scheme to funnel money to the failed congressional campaign of the Secretary's brother, Henry Espy. Lake allegedly had been asked to help Espy out by a lobbyist for Sun Diamond Growers of California, a client company of Lake's own lobbying firm. The point of the exercise, presumably, was to curry favor with the Agriculture Secretary...
...Siegel] is a funnel for information passing stories and bringing ideas from one community to the next," said Ethan M. Tucker '97, chair of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel...