Word: tap
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Some professors save their giving for off-year elections--when political parties tap core donors to try and support Congressional and Senatorial candidates...
...make more than one mistake during the course of the campaign. The Gore campaign shouldn't compound those mistakes by trying to solve them with tortured phrasing that reminds us of the worst of Clinton, not the best of the Clinton/Gore administration. I won't even address the linguistic tap-dance Bush has been performing for the last several months because it is so constant as to be almost mesmerizing...
...tap into networks," Pill said. "We pull in everyone we know and ask them to come up with things...
Releasing crude from the SPR--the oil is stored in underground caves in Texas and Louisiana--could be a dam breaker. Says Daniel Yergin, chairman of Cambridge Energy Resources, a leading consultant: "Any effort to tap the strategic reserve now will add to pressure on oil producers to put more crude on the market, which will start to bring prices down." The last time the government announced it was unloading oil from the SPR, in April 1996, petroleum-futures prices plummeted nearly 8% almost immediately and the cost of gasoline soon dropped 10[cents...
...MEMORABLE MOMENT] After support staff is briefly delinquent in assisting Wonder from his vintage car, the star recovers splendidly and tap-dances with Savion Glover