Word: funneled
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...most of the decade, legislators have maintained the budget affecting America's 555 recognized Indian tribes at a constant level. Deploring the inefficiency of the BIA, through which most Indian-earmarked money flows, Congress has attempted to funnel more money directly through it to the tribes. This year, however, fueled partly by Republican budget-cutting fervor and partly by what some call a longstanding antipathy toward tribal rights on the part of a powerful Senator, Washington's Slade Gorton, it ripped up the playbook. "We've never seen cuts like these," says Christopher Stearns, Democratic counsel to the House Subcommittee...
...interviewed, has said the proceeds were used for charitable activities such as distributing Christmas baskets and turkeys in poor neighborhoods. But bank records obtained by the state election commission show that since 1988, checks drawn on the account of the Sharpe James Civic Association were used to funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Committee to Re-elect Sharpe James...
Pennypackers' central circular staircase is agreat place for congregating. And people do. "ThePack's" bright landing are full of people at allhours, and a four story beer funnel makes anappearance on its open stairwell once a year orso. Pennypacker's rooms are not massive, but theirquirky shapes offer a change of pace from thestandard Yard dorms...
...cuts measure that would have stripped $16.4 billion from current expenditures. "I cannot in good conscience sign a bill that cuts education to save pet congressional projects," said the President. The Republican-sponsored legislation would have trimmed a host of social programs in the current budget while continuing to funnel funds for certain road and courthouse projects. Lacking the votes for an override, G.O.P. leaders said they would try to craft a compromise bill with the President...
...Guatemalan human rights abuses had become too flagrant for even the U.S. to support openly. The State Department cancelled aid to the Guatemalan military (about $3 million a year) but the C.I.A. continued to funnel $5 to $7 million a year to them...