Word: spigot
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This kind of subterfuge offends Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona, who, despite his long-standing friendship with Dole, has sponsored a bill that would turn off the soft-money spigot. Unlike any of the growing number of campaign-finance reform measures being floated on Capitol Hill, his bill, which is co-sponsored by Democratic Senator Russell Feingold of Wisconsin, would stop the flow of these funds by preventing national parties from distributing the money to state parties. After months of trying, the two sponsors have finally succeeded in getting the Senate to schedule a debate on the bill next...
...dean doesn't sit on a pool of money and aim the spigot in [whichever] direction asks for it," Kirshner says. "A lot of these things happen because faculty members go out and get the money...
Also sent reeling was the archaic belief that women are somehow, uh, softer. During the second round, Gogarty caught the 135-lb. Martin flush on the nose, opening a spigot of blood. After the round, as cornermen tried to stop the flow, Jim asked Christy if she wanted to continue. "I was concerned because she's my wife first, my fighter second," he says. "She told me, 'Don't you dare stop this fight.'" Martin's persistence was rewarded not only with the decision, the cheers of the crowd and the W.B.C. women's championship belt, but also with what...
...will have to do it largely on his own. The U.S. gave Haiti $235 million last year; this year Clinton has asked for $115 million, and Congress has so far coughed up almost nothing. International lenders have turned off the spigot until Haiti adopts austerity reforms. Washington has declared the country a "safe and secure environment," which allows the peacekeepers to depart. By the measure of organized assassination, violence has subsided: only 20 killings that the U.N. delicately calls "commando-style executions" have taken place, a huge improvement over the 3,000 or so notched up by the military regime...
...grants. Nearby, the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute and the Mountain-Plains Consortium perform Washington-sanctioned studies on guardrails and scenic byways. N.D.S.U. grew so fast in the 1980s under the pork-barreling patronage of then Senator Quentin Burdick that local wags dubbed the campus "Burdickville.'' Now that the spigot may finally dry up, NDSU must look to outside sources for its research dollars...