Word: siphon
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...successful ferry will hardly make a dent in the traffic jams caused by the 100,000 autos that now use the Golden Gate Bridge daily, 31,000 at rush hours alone. By 1980, the rush-hour figure should be 47,000. Thus imaginative district officials are now planning to siphon off more bridge commuters with four ferries that are larger (750 passengers) and more luxurious (two bars). Later this summer they will also begin trial runs with a giant 60-passenger air-cushion vehicle, which will skim across the Bay in just 15 minutes. But District General Manager Dale Luehring...
...illuminate social contradictions not apparent when they are perceived in isolation. One particularly moving sequence links the upturned face of a hungry child in the back country with the exploitative neo-colonial system by intercepting it with a dazzling skyscraper in Bucnos Aires, the port city where foreigners siphon off the country's natural wealth. Instead of pretending a special or temporal literalness (like Hollywood montage), this connection is based on a mediation of concrete images with the assessment of Argentine social structure as a class structure. The ambiguous apparent nature of the images by a construct of contradiction...
...many local business and government leaders are profiting from the U.S. presence, says the study, that they have a powerful vested interest in continuing the combat. In part their dependence stems from a highly unusual method chosen by U.S. policymakers to control South Viet Nam's inflation. To siphon off the excess buying power that resulted from the huge inflow of dollars, the U.S. directed much of its aid toward financing massive imports of luxury goods-thus increasing supply to match demand. The bank points out that Vietnamese businessmen make "quick and exorbitant profits" by securing import permits...
There was evidence of skimming, the system used to siphon millions out of the casinos in order to dodge taxes. Last summer, state officials looking into the accounts of the Hughes-owned Sands Hotel turned up $186,000 in "markers," some of which were lOUs signed with fictitious names. Hughes' managers wanted to write off the $186,000 as bad debts, a request that the state officials bluntly refused. Mob-connected men settled down comfortably in the Hughes organization. One of them: John Roselli, who was imprisoned in the '40s for shaking down Hollywood movie producers and later...
...racing driver whose blood antibodies "make him immune to all diseases, including the aging process." Like The Fugitive before him, he is on the run-in this case doomed to spend the whole cliché-choked series fleeing an aging and baleful billionaire (David Brian) who wants to siphon off a few pints...