Word: spigot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only the real hardship cases--defense organizations and contractors, oil cartels, airlines and the like--have been able to get the government to increase their benefits or open the spigot further since then...
...hardhitting" and specific speech already prepared by Nixon Aide Patrick Buchanan for that purpose. Dean further offered to "turn the spigot off" on Government contracts to Brookings...
...ride our bikes up to a gas pump and buy two cents worth of gas. Then we'd go out in the woods and put it right up to our noses and," here he imitates a gasoline pump, one arm as the handle and the other as the spigot, eyes blinking and rolling upward like the gallon counter and mouth making the sound of the machine as it fills the tank, "Bong bong! Bong bong! Bong bong...
...close most of the current energy gap. Yet deep uncertainties remain about the course of Arab oil production and world crude prices. The Arabs lifted the embargo in recognition of U.S. efforts to arrange a Middle East settlement. But there remains a threat that the Arabs could close the spigot again in June if they judged that the U.S. had not pushed hard enough to secure, among other things, an Israeli pullback in the Golan Heights. The Arabs will meet in Cairo on June 1 to "review" American efforts along these lines, and could reimpose the embargo if they...
Last September, just before the Arab embargo, when shortages were already cropping up, Ken Jamieson and other Exxon officials privately warned leaders of Britain, Germany, Italy and the European Common Market that they had better get an international allocation plan ready in case the Arabs turned off the spigot. They paid no attention, so it fell to Exxon and other oil companies to switch shipments around when the Arabs cut back and embargoed last October. Exxon, for example, has routed to Rotterdam Iranian oil that would normally go elsewhere, and switched away from Rotterdam the Arabian oil that King Faisal...