Word: spigot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...legislature accepts that premise, Voke said yesterday, the fiscal woes could be treated as a one-time problem. The "spigot of spending" was turned down in the $12.3 billion budget which the House approved last month, Voke said...
Throughout the five years that the Reagan Administration has made common cause with the rebels, the most decisive skirmishes have taken place outside the jungles of Central America. On Capitol Hill a wavering Congress, turning the aid spigot on and off, has sometimes seemed to the contras a more troublesome adversary than the 65,000 armed soldiers of the Sandinista People's Army. Now a homegrown peace plan hatched in the capitals of Central America has upstaged the war. Even some contra civilian leaders have caught peace fever, declaring their intention to re-enter politics in Nicaragua and leave those...
...Tammy $52,000, yet all the Bakkers' expenses, from tutors for the couple's two children to their personal automobiles, were covered by PTL. The ministry paid for virtually everything, no matter how trivial: Bakker once summoned a PTL plumber to attach a lawn hose to a spigot at his home...
Rather than eliminate most weapons, the Pentagon will probably stretch out production runs, which will end up being more expensive in the long term. In addition, research and development, which has blossomed under the Reagan spigot, may come under fire, perhaps even threatening the future of the Star Wars initiative. As in past years, training, spare parts and operations may suffer most because cuts in these areas are less visible than the abandonment of entire weapons systems. Says former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger: "We will see a decline in readiness." Pentagon officials hope that Congress will be flexible in imposing...
Aside from the feces crisis, there were a number of space glitches, none of them momentous. A drinking-water spigot temporarily stuck, leaving the crew so thirsty that some proposed to use the water in their survival-kit rations. The crew successfully spun off one satellite that will aid air-traffic control, but they were unable to launch another that could have assisted the Defense Department in tracking submarines. Reason: the apparent failure, possibly due to weak batteries, of a microswitch on the door of the canister housing the satellite. Other frustrations included a sticky latch on an air lock...