Word: siphon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stop. Four people are standing around a white, early-'70s Volvo. They're out of gas; can we help? Yes, yes, we say, of course. They want to siphon from our tank. They have an actual siphon right there. We don't have enough, we say, noticing that we're almost out ourselves. We'll take them to the next town. Another man, Esteban, about 19, gets in the back seat, as does Marisa, 24, petite, in silk blouse and black jeans. They hold the gas container on their laps. It's 15 minutes to tiny-town Roda...
...should help quiet criticism from the media that, when it comes to foreign policy, Bush the Younger is no, well, Bush the Elder. Where Bush's push for internationalism could hurt him is the general election, especially if Pat Buchanan snags the Reform party nomination, whence he could siphon off a large enough contingent of America-first devotees to split the GOP and leave the White House wide open for the Democrats. Still, on Friday anyway, Bush was only too ready to trade on his father's highly successful foreign policy record. The irony is that the more W. sounds...
...failing grades on "insufficient funding and foreign policy that has committed military personnel to areas where we have no vital security interests." Depending on how you look at it, the report represents either a more realistic look at a flawed Army or a ploy by congressional Republicans to siphon more funding into the military and cut back on peacekeeping efforts. Pressed by the media, Pentagon officials acknowledged that the Army isn't significantly less prepared than it's been in recent years, but the standards in this year's evaluation were raised by Congress...
...Under no circumstances will I vote to spend one penny of the Social Security trust fund on anything but Social Security," declaimed DeLay at the launch. Yet just hours later, the Republican-led Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the GOP's current spending plan for next year would siphon at least $18 billion of the fund's surplus. And that, it said, was a conservative estimate. DeLay and the rest of the GOP leadership had little to say about the apparently glaring contradiction; the GOP rank and file sound worried. Under nocircumstances? "That's kind of an absolute statement...
...Reform nod, and bash Buchanan's "revisionist history about WWII" for good measure. What, no words for Warren Beatty? The actor pulled a pretty good Hillary in Hollywood on Wednesday night, talking loud - "Is there no protest anymore?" - but staying mum about his own intentions. Beatty's liberal siphon could be as strong as Buchanan's conservative one, but only if he too jumps to the Reform party, which he doesn't sound too likely to do. Meanwhile, Mr. Big Lead might want to keep his eye on his own backyard - that was Nancy Reagan sitting in the front...