Word: siphon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wallace's strength outside the South. Polls show that his support is insignificant in the East and is only slightly important in the Middle and Far West. Since hostility to the Administration is widespread among farmers, Republicans would do well in the Mid-west even if Wallace did not siphon off Democratic votes...
Continental bondmen fear that Washington will soon clamp down on convertible issues. Many European investors, they report, are simply selling their American stocks to raise cash to buy such bonds. Such sales siphon dollars abroad, and the U.S. can ill afford the extra drain on its balance of payments...
...wide. Even Nixon's forces are skeptical of one early poll showing Romney behind 5 to 1. Nixonites feel that this is merely a ploy to make even slight gains seem a Romney triumph. They may well be, since enthusiasm for a Ronald Reagan write-in-which would siphon off Nixon strength-is evaporating. As if this were not enough woe for Romney, six Nelson Rockefeller supporters paid the $10 fee to file as G.O.P. convention delegate candidates on the secondary part of the ballot, and Rocky's 1964 New Hampshire chairman continues to contemplate a Granite State...
...large part of that rush for funds has been Washington-inspired. Without higher taxes, the U.S. Treasury would be forced to siphon nearly $15 billion out of the long-term money market during the second half of 1967 to pay the deficit-plagued Government's bills. Another $25 billion of maturing federal debt must be refinanced. Figuring that Treasury financing on such a scale would drive interest rates above their present levels, many corporations have accelerated their borrowing lest they be caught in another credit squeeze...
...Siphoned Staffers. The papers have a tough time finding qualified journalists-or keeping them. For this reason, white staffers are still to be found on Negro papers. Some editors look for promising high school students, then help pay their way through college, in the hope that they will join the paper after graduation. Even if they do, they are unlikely to stay. The white dailies, public relations firms and the Federal Government siphon off the best Negro journalists and leave the papers sorely understaffed. The Atlanta Inquirer in seven years has had eight different editors. "As long...