Word: siphon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usually, the vessel has a secret siphon or straw in the handle (a remarkable feat of ceramic artisanship) with which the patron can imbibe...
...after last week's spectacle, a growing number of investors are likely to put their money elsewhere. Rising interest rates on bonds are starting to siphon some big-time investors' funds away from the stock market. Many individuals are taking their market profits and putting them in banks. Says Charles Allman, editor of the Growth Stock Outlook newsletter: "I'm neither a bear nor a bull. Right now I'm just chicken." Along with a lot of others...
Proponents of delay, Lederman charges, are more concerned about the tremendous cost of the SSC, which they think will siphon federal funds away from other branches of science: "They see the new superconductors as a weapon with which to slay...
ALTHOUGH MELENDEZ'S 20 hour work week in Canaday will siphon off close to a third of the council's budget this year, he evidently is not adequate to the task of keeping a three-room office filled with typed documents. So the council employs a second office staffer, Tara Deal '87, a work-study student. Deal's job, Chairman Eisert says, is to make sure the council meets deadlines with the IRS, Holyoke Center, and banks. And he says she doesn't cost undergraduates any money...
...heroic measures they once passed effortlessly. After Philippine President Corazon Aquino made a stirring speech to Congress appealing for more American aid, the Senate comically tried and failed twice to come up with a $200 million honorarium. After first hunting fruitlessly through foreign aid accounts and then trying to siphon funds from a Central American appropriation, last week the Senators dug the money out of the foreign-operations kitty...