Word: funnels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nixon's first term included sweeping innovations, often surprisingly liberal. He was the first President in years to cut military spending; the first to tie Social Security increases to the cost of living. He instituted "revenue sharing" to funnel $6 billion a year in federal tax money back to the states and cities. He signed the act lowering the voting age to 18. And he benefited from Kennedy's decision to go to the moon. When Neil Armstrong landed there in 1969, Nixon somewhat vaingloriously declared that "this is the greatest week in the history of the world since...
...definitive answer to the tax question may have to await the end of Fiske's investigation -- which, at least at the start, presumably will focus on an earlier matter: Did Madison Guaranty, a busted savings and loan, funnel money improperly either into Bill Clinton's Arkansas campaigns or into Whitewater, a real estate venture in which the Clintons were equal partners with James McDougal, the owner of Madison Guaranty, and his former wife Susan...
...university that, this semester, will launch the largest capital campaign in the history of higher education. That fund drive--which has tacitly been ongoing for the past two years, though it officially kicks off on May 13--is expected to funnel about $2 billion into Harvard's already bulging coffers...
Congressmen used to funnel money back home with defense dollars. Now they do it with "defense conversion" dollars. Very quietly in November, the 1994 Defense Appropriations bill came out of a House-Senate conference and was instantly signed by President Clinton. The bill calls for distribution of more than $2.4 billion to fund such defense-conversion projects as these...
Stop for how long? The scheme has never been tested in a man-made impoundment, nor at 9,000 to 10,000 ft. in mountainous terrain subject to very heavy snowfalls, avalanches, flooding, severe underground seepage and seismic activity. If, or when, the tailings dump fails, it will funnel heavy metals into Fisher Creek, which becomes the Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River, the only "wild and scenic" river in northwestern Wyoming. If the Army Corps of Engineers or the Environmental Protection Agency vetoes the wetlands destruction, the next best site would require a more complicated...