Word: spigot
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Thursday's torrential storms, and Diablo Canyon is already up and running to full capacity. Also, now that Energy Secretary Bill Richardson has extended the emergency order requiring generators to sell power to the strapped California market until next Wednesday, suppliers won't be able to turn off the spigot, no matter how debt-ridden the state's ailing utilities are. Fridays are typically the least demanding of weekdays, as people leave work early. And after all the near misses, pleas for Californians to conserve electricity finally seem to be working; on Thursday, the state saved almost 2000 megawatts, enough...
...taking on his party's leadership. Republican leader Trent Lott and most of his GOP caucus loathe the prospect of McCain's bill being the first thing the Senate debates this year. The measure would stop millions of dollars in unregulated soft money from flowing into both parties, a spigot Lott and Bush don't want to shut off. Bush, who is irritated and puzzled by his former rival's gambit, also opposes McCain's bill because it doesn't protect union members from having their dues go toward political causes they don't necessarily support. Adding such a provision...
Although comprehensive campaign finance reform is the only real solution, I'm looking forward to the race in 2002, when the district will have been safely redrawn, the national money spigot directed on other places and Monica's dress stashed safely at the bottom of a drawer. Then, the voters in the 27th district will no longer be pawns in the continued controversy over impeachment and will have to share less of their political voice with the likes of Verizon and Dreamworks...
...Russia and France back on their end-the-sanctions high horses, and with Iraq's U.N.-imposed 5 million b.p.d. oil-production limit looking more and more absurd the tighter the crude market gets, the Man from Baghdad is sitting in the catbird seat. With one twist of the spigot (or one move against Kuwait, for that matter) Hussein could instantly neutralize all the White House's work and humiliate the U.S. in the bargain. Think that's not tempting? Clinton, one presumes, is aware of this - and you can bet the oil traders are. For all the political tapdancing...
...defense contractors don't really have to worry about politicians' turning off the funding spigot. They maintain that lawmakers' support for deployment remains solid and won't be weakened by test failures. Moreover, the issue is thriving in the presidential campaign. In May, George W. Bush unveiled his plan for combining unilateral arms cuts with a national missile system far more extensive--and expensive --than the one the Clinton Administration is considering. While Clinton's plan calls for the initial deployment of some 100 land-based interceptors at one site, Bush's yet-to-be-detailed plan envisions many more...