Word: tapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...laundry list of expensive new domestic programs, from housing to education. The cost of his comprehensive health-care program alone would be near prohibitive even without the deficit problem. Moreover, he has been unable to resist the siren song of free-lunch economics. His centerpiece proposal is to tap $60 billion in public pension funds to finance low-income housing and public works programs. The money would be taken out of stocks and bonds and invested where it could do the most good. Simple in theory, but what about the retirees who would earn a lower return on their retirement...
Alumni of the "Key" last week approved a student vote taken earlier this month that decided to change the society's selection--"tap"--and admissions policies to admit women, according to The Yale Daily News...
...Bell Group's pre-October assets of $1.8 billion, for instance, were made up of corporate shareholdings. "We were overexposed to the world's stock markets," Holmes a Court has conceded. Moreover, since the raider did not own controlling interest in those corporations, he was unable to tap their corporate credit lines to get infusions of new money. Said he: "Our money was tied up without getting cash flow or profits...
Though most professors refused to speculate on Dukakis' choices should he be elected President, one tenured professor guessed that Dukakis might tap the expertise of Nye, Allison, Professor of Economics Jeffrey Sachs, or Boas Professor of International Economics Richard N. Cooper...
...Ferraro says she is doing more than just teaching. "I am also the recipient of a good deal of information which comes from a great deal of talent which resides at this university. And so I'm really pleased to have the resources available to me that I can tap for subjects I'm interested in," she says...