Word: funnelers
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...known as the Chinese Intelligence Service and is believed to be part of the foreign ministry's information department. The service's primary job is to sift intelligence data from members of Chinese embassies and overseas news correspondents, who act as secret agents. The Chinese Communist Party, however, does funnel funds to revolutionary groups abroad, particularly in Asia and Africa. From time to time, Chinese covert operations also have failed spectacularly. In 1965, Indonesia reacted to China's attempt to sponsor a revolution in the archipelago by butchering tens of thousands of Communists...
...shadowy world of illegal pro-football betting, they are known as "readers" - informers who funnel inside information on a team's physical and mental condition to bookies and oddsmakers (TIME, Jan. 14). Most bookies have to settle for readers who pick up their dope secondhand from players, coaches, owners or even locker-room attendants. Now two big-time operators in New York City stand accused of using the best kind of reader available: the official orthopedic surgeon of the New York Giants...
That left the 17th, a 441-yard par 4. It was a treacherous hole. The tee was set back in a funnel of trees overlooking a narrow creek. About 200 yards out, the hole began a deceptively sharp 75-degree dogleg right toward a 2800-square-foot green. There was deep rough and a line of thick trees on both sides of the fairway, and in front of the green there was a gaping pond that had already served as an unwelcome commode for the balls and dreams of more than a few players in the Pleasant Valley field...
...himself in any leadership position among truckers. In an interview last month, he said, "Truckers don't want somebody up there saying, 'Hey you're gonna do this or you're gonna do that,' so we've been very careful, in stating the facts, that we act as a funnel for all their problems and focus them as best we can. I suppose that there are some truckers that look upon us as being a leader or their leader. I don't. I just look on it as knowing more what's happening, or what should happen, than anybody else...
...drive more than a few miles to find unleaded gas. Agency officials also note that 300,000 small nozzles have already been produced and are in wide distribution. In a pinch, any stations that cannot get the small nozzles can pump the new fuel through standard nozzles and a funnel into 1975 cars. That leaves one further problem: Many gas stations that have only two pumps will not add a third to dispense unleaded, but will drop premium gas in favor of the new fuel. So drivers of some high-powered older cars built to run on premium...