Word: spigots
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...return for this partial surrender of home rule, the money spigot has been turned on again. Big Mac is empowered to convert up to $3 billion in short-term debt into long-term bonds. The new bonds will be backed by some $1 billion in revenues from the sales tax and stock-transfer tax. This arrangement is expected to reassure investors who were frightened away from city offerings...
Only the real hardship cases--defense organizations and contractors, oil cartels, airlines and the like--have been able to get the government to increase their benefits or open the spigot further since then...
...hardhitting" and specific speech already prepared by Nixon Aide Patrick Buchanan for that purpose. Dean further offered to "turn the spigot off" on Government contracts to Brookings...
...ride our bikes up to a gas pump and buy two cents worth of gas. Then we'd go out in the woods and put it right up to our noses and," here he imitates a gasoline pump, one arm as the handle and the other as the spigot, eyes blinking and rolling upward like the gallon counter and mouth making the sound of the machine as it fills the tank, "Bong bong! Bong bong! Bong bong...
...close most of the current energy gap. Yet deep uncertainties remain about the course of Arab oil production and world crude prices. The Arabs lifted the embargo in recognition of U.S. efforts to arrange a Middle East settlement. But there remains a threat that the Arabs could close the spigot again in June if they judged that the U.S. had not pushed hard enough to secure, among other things, an Israeli pullback in the Golan Heights. The Arabs will meet in Cairo on June 1 to "review" American efforts along these lines, and could reimpose the embargo if they...