Word: spigot
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...Customers delay payments for months on end, while suppliers turn around and demand cash on delivery. At the same time lenders, such as local and regional commercial banks and finance companies, demand rates of two, three, and five points above the prime, and sometimes just turn off the money spigot altogether...
...between related problems and goals. An aide who is much closer to Reagan personally says, "He isn't dumb, but sometimes he has a lazy brain. He reads something, and it goes into the reservoir he has up there without checking. It comes out when he turns the spigot...
...vast rural areas are still largely shrouded in the semifeudalism of bygone centuries. Except for the transistor radio and the motorcycle, few of the amenities of modern life have ever arrived. Village women weave their own brightly colored dresses on primitive handmade looms. Water is fetched from a common spigot, and ox carts are still a common mode of rural transportation. A glaringly unequal distribution of wealth and land remains a festering source of political instability...
...have long dreamed of buying a samovar," wrote one frustrated consumer from Stavropol. "How often have I searched in stores with, alas, no results." A resident of Zaporozhye wrote that her stores carried a model for 25 rubles, but added: "It looks like a galvanized bucket with a spigot." Pravda approached the proper ministry for an explanation and printed its response: 28 models were available, and "much is being done to improve their external appearance," said a spokesman, adding that samovars had not been overlooked in the latest Five-Year Plan. By 1985, he predicted, 2 million samovars will...
...indirectly, by reducing the nation's dependence on expensive foreign oil. Instead of leaving conservation to the vagaries of the so-called free market, rationing could immediately reduce oil imports, opening up alternatives in foreign policy to a blind commitment to keep the ever-more-expensive Mideast oil spigot open...