Word: siphon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nobody's Man but Yours," has countered by pushing his image as an unbossed maverick, a legitimate characterization. The polls have offered contradictory predictions. And there is also an X factor confusing everyone's calculations: the presence of Conservative Party Candidate Lucien DiFazio, who is positioned to siphon off some of Weicker's support. "If DiFazio pulls 7%," said a Democratic campaign strategist last week, "it's Toby...
...country every day; yet many banks pump money onto the wires and over satellite networks with little or no encryption, or coding, at all. Predicts Mathematician Ralph Merkle, a member of the Stanford codemaking team: "One of these days someone will break into a wire-transfer banking network and siphon off all the contents. Then there will be a lot of interest in cryptography...
...Republican, because, No. 1, I get elected." Whether he does so again could depend on Conservative Candidate Lucien DiFazio, 39, a Hartford lawyer who entered the race only nine weeks ago. Although DiFazio has no chance of winning, he has substantial financial backing from the New Right and might siphon off votes from Weicker. With Weicker leading Moffett by only a few points in the polls, even a small swing to DiFazio could affect the outcome...
...seems so long ago. But if you think very hard you might remember multi-hour gas lines, odd and even days, and perhaps a siphon burn or two. Those were just a few of the facts of life of the mid-1970s oil crust that gave a real fright to Americans, forcing them to insulate their homes, sell their Cadillacs and pay attention to a faraway group of Arab nations...
Most magazines today are sold in three ways: on newsstands, by subscriptions ordered directly from the publications, and by subscriptions brokered tions, and by subscriptions brokered through agencies. Direct subscriptions provide enough income per buyer to help offset printing and distribution costs. By comparison, agencies siphon off so much of the subscriber's payment that the magazine loses money on each copy. But the increase in readership is supposed to enable publishers to recoup through higher advertising rates. Saturday Review got the bulk of its readers through agencies, said a former editor, "because we wanted to K8 get consumer...