Word: spigots
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...plummeting price of crude forced Chávez, who controls the hemisphere's largest oil reserves and is a major U.S. supplier, to turn off the Citgo spigot this week and focus more of his aid resources at home. Critics of Chávez point out that his need to shore up domestic funds is even more urgent because he's trying to win support for a national referendum, probably to be held next month, on whether to eliminate presidential-term limits and let him run again...
...supplies from Russia. There's no straight concordance between energy dependency and forbearance toward Russia. Poland and the Baltic states, which pushed for a tougher line against Moscow, would freeze without Russian natural gas and oil - and indeed, Lithuania, Ukraine and the Czech Republic have all seen the spigot closed on deliveries from Russia in recent years. But German politicians, particularly many in the Social Democratic Party (SPD) - the junior member of Christian Democratic (CDU) Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition - have long felt a special responsibility for keeping a line open to Moscow, from Willy Brandt's Nobel Prize...
...Numerous sites are taking advantage of CRP's open spigot, including Maplight.org. Last week Maplight merged CRP info with voting data from GovTrack.us to assess the 94 House Democrats who had originally opposed immunity for wiretapping telecoms but then shifted positions to vote in support of the Bush Administration. Maplight's analysis demonstrated that those who flip-flopped on immunity had received nearly double the amount in PAC contributions from AT&T, Sprint and Verizon as those who remained opposed to the legislation...
...this point, the Saudis would also like the price of oil to moderate. But that doesn't mean their interests and ours are now aligned. The way to squeeze as much money as possible out of the power to control the spigot is not to raise prices indefinitely. It is to figure out the point at which the extra money you get from the higher price is no longer more than the amount you give up in lost sales. Making this calculation regarding oil is especially tricky because of the differing calculations for the short run vs. the long...
...harsh winter months set in. After two decades of war, there are over 1 million Afghan refugees currently living in Iran. Afghanistan doesn't have the resources to reintegrate them in large numbers. After Karzai made a direct appeal to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran shut off the spigot. But it is unclear what price Iran might have extracted for its largesse. The repatriation, said the U.S. official, was "clearly designed to send a message to Afghans of displeasure of their relationship with...