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...what began as a logistical nightmare. Having failed to snare the 72,000-seat Louisiana Superdome for its convention, the party was faced with the task of squeezing 35,000 delegates, press, VIPs and security staff into Atlanta's 17,000-seat Omni Arena. The solution: to funnel the overflow into the adjacent Georgia World Congress Center and nearby hotels and then tie the whole conglomeration together with video monitors, shared computer files and electronic mail. The result is a computer system that, the committee claims, "equals or excels ((that of)) many FORTUNE 500 companies...
...continue buying Treasury securities. If Congress were actually to balance the budget, the Government could use the Social Security surplus to buy back gradually the nation's $3 trillion debt from its domestic and foreign owners. Instead of tying up their resources in Government IOUs, investors would have to funnel their assets into private industry. This would promote economic growth. The process, says Moynihan, "will put the federal budget back in the black, pay off the privately held government debt, jump-start the savings rate and guarantee the Social Security trust funds for half a century and more...
...desirable low-channel positions near the networks to the less watched numbers at the high end of the dial -- "cable Siberia," as some call it. Viewers have little recourse against such moves because in most communities there is only one cable company to choose from. "There is only one funnel to the TV home," Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, told a House telecommunications subcommittee hearing. "If you are unhappy with your cable system, you have no forum where your grievance can be addressed . . . You either...
...Mason, you're not a sieve, you're a funnel...
...funnel, you're a vacuum...