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...greedy politicians at lower levels of government rushed to get their share of Abscam's bribe money, the FBI's operation was getting too complex and expensive. The agents had promised to hand over more money in bribes than they could deliver. At some point the spigot had to be turned off. "We found people climbing all over each other to get some of the action," claimed one FBI official. "We were mystified...
Connally's analysis also plays into Arab hands. He envisions that Arabs who receive a favorable settlement will open the spigot and our oil shortage will magically be over. Don't vote on it. Our energy problem will only be solved be domestic programs, and not by OPEC's charity...
...Those steps will not increase overall supply, but they might calm the panic buying that is turning what should be a moderate shortage into a nightmare. Indeed, the nation had better get used to coping with shortages. The one in 1973-74 disappeared quickly after OPEC turned on the spigot following the end of the Arab oil embargo. The cartel seems unlikely to do so again, and even if it did, no one could trust an increase in output to last. Meanwhile, the threat of economic slowdown and runaway inflation in the non-Communist world gets stronger every...
...great sums of money flow from the industry spigot to persuade the public or legislators to adopt an industry solution to a problem, while in contrast, few dollars ever trickle from the consumers' faucet...
...promising as this research has been, Government agencies did not open the funding spigot for it until the 1970s, when the return of many drug-addicted veterans of Viet Nam prompted concern about just how such opiates as heroin and morphine work. The payoff came quickly. In 1973 three groups of researchers, Solomon Snyder and Candace Pert of Johns Hopkins University, Eric Simon of New York University and Lars Terenius of Uppsala, Sweden, announced almost simultaneously the discovery of specific receptors for such opiates in the brain. Snyder's lab located a high density of receptors in the medial...