Word: funnels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Huang went there most frequently in February 1996, shortly after joining the D.N.C. "It creates a very bad impression to have a fund raiser spending that much time in the White House," says C. Boyden Gray, who served as Bush's White House counsel. Gray set up a "funnel" in the Bush White House during the 1992 campaign, requiring campaign officials to clear any conversations with Bush appointees in the government. "It was time-consuming because you had to make two phone calls instead of one, and sometimes it was frustrating because they'd say no," he says...
Television, polling, political consultants, printing and postage account for this increased spending, as does fund raising itself. Major players in the fund-raising game are the thousands of political-action committees, ordained by Congress to funnel contributions from special-interest groups to political candidates. In 1976 PACs were responsible for 28% of the contributions to House incumbents; in 1994 their portion had risen to more than...
...humble beginnings as a high school dropout in a Pennsylvania mining town, Young has worked his way to a position of power and influence in the House. As chair of the National Security Subcommittee, he has fought cuts in defense and intelligence funding, and has used his influence to funnel military spending to the 10th, the home of numerous defense interests...
Livingston--running unopposed--has a flair for the theatrical. In his first appearance as chairman of the Appropriations Committee, he brandished two knives and a machete to show how he would cut the budget. Fortunately, from that powerful position he was also able to funnel federal money into Jefferson Parish's Avondale shipyard, where he once worked summers to pay his college tuition...
...most violent space storms of all occur when magnetic field lines in the solar wind connect with those that surround the earth, creating a kind of funnel that channels huge quantities of solar plasma into the magnetosphere. In response, powerful currents surge through the high reaches of the atmosphere, where they can utterly scramble broadcast signals, and even through seawater and bedrock. These surface currents can corrode buried pipelines, interrupt transatlantic phone conversations and overheat electrical transformers. In 1989, during the most recent solar maximum, currents induced by a geomagnetic storm brought down the power grid that supplies Canada...