Word: siphon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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America has also been slow to remove price controls from natural gas. Such restraints discourage energy saving and siphon away profits that the gas industry could use for new exploration. Says Economist Robert Pindyck of M.I.T.: "With artificially low prices, people consume more than they should. They waste...
...they do not miss their professors' absence since they do mostly independent research. One student in Ausubel's lab says he has heard miserable tales from students who felt that they had been neglected, but he adds that he likes the arrangement since the industrial opportunities available to Ausubel siphon down to him. If Ausubel doesn't have time to write a story about his research for a popular magazine, the student says, he often asks one of his students to write it. This activity, the student says, is a good exposure to the benefits of private industry...
...will set a precedent. What will stop it from intervening on the issue of an election--for example, to keep a friendly party in power even after that party has lost a Canadian election? Or to defeat a budget whose policies might prove disadvantageous to Britain? Or to siphon off Canadian resources in order to help a flagging British defense establishment...
...aggressive enough. The scope of the coverage was too narrow." Within three years Johnson hired 100 new staffers and eased out dozens of slower-moving veterans (fewer than 50 of the current editorial staff of 203 were there when he arrived); he also started a new morning edition to siphon off some News readers, redesigned the paper to give it a cleaner look, and added new sections on sports, fashion and travel. The Times Herald's editorial budget rose 157% in five years. Johnson switched the Saturday afternoon edition to the morning, and circulation went...
Thus Anderson appears to have become just what he has always vowed he would not be-a "spoiler" who would siphon off enough votes to alter what would have been the outcome if Carter and Reagan had squared off alone. The Congressman briskly rejects this analysis. Last week he told TIME that if he does fail, he expects Reagan to win-but not because of any result of his own candidacy. Said he: "I just will not accept the idea that I am going to be responsible for Reagan's winning. Carter is losing votes because of Carter, because...