Word: siphon
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...early October, the White House at the last minute blocked a $500 million sale of U.S. grain to the Soviet Union. Then Washington relented and announced that it would approve a Soviet purchase of about $380 million worth, apparently in the belief that the scaled-down deal would not siphon enough grain out of the U.S. to worsen American food-price inflation...
Clinical Mavericks. Resistance to the new approaches is widespread. Though lawyers across the nation concede that open legal-insurance plans might well bring in more clients, the majority want no part of the closed plan. This, they say, will siphon clients from regular law firms, especially in small towns where one major employer might control most of the area's law business under its group-insurance scheme. Clinics, too, have come under attack because they frequently ignore professional bans against advertising. In Los Angeles, the California Bar Association this week begins disciplinary proceedings against Jacoby and Meyers. The charge...
...universities in Massachusetts did not object to seeing their public step sister flourish with state funding. Now,faced with a dwindling supply of students and costs that have pushed their tuition charges alone to $3,000 and more, the "privates" can no longer watch with equanimity as the "publics" siphon off students at a mere $300 a head-the basic tuition charge at the University of Massachusetts and other state colleges...
...exported to poor countries than on petroleum sold to industrialized lands. In the past, however, oil producers have turned a deaf ear to pleas that they organize such a two-price market. They have argued, probably correctly, that it would lead to a black market that would siphon off the low-priced fuel to the rich countries...
...interdisciplinary majors comes from entrenched faculty in the departments, whose first loyalty is to the departmental structure. Not only do they seem to feel threatened by the growth of fields outside the province of departmental control, but they also fear that if opened up, the honors majors would siphon off many more of their best students...