Sentences with phrase «cash spigot»

As for the «cash spigot», the pot of money and prestige available to research supporting extreme climate change scenarios is orders of magnitude larger than the pot available to research supporting moderate scenarios.

As everyone knows (or ought to know by now), one of main reason controversy over climate change is continuing in the face of overwhelming evidence is the fact that ExxonMobil has the cash spigot open to fund anyone willing to deny the evidence — the Competitive Enterprise Insitute, George Marshall Institute and the old tobacco industry network run by Steven Milloy, Fred Seitz and Fred Singer have been among the main beneficiaries.

But even before the cash spigot opens, the government may close it — or even try to limit research on human embryonic stem cells, the more promising and controversial type of stem cell.

More important, it's doubtful Trump can simply turn off the cash spigot: Most of that funding is required by law.

Although they haven't been anywhere near as public about it as their colleagues at CSEA, officials at the statewide teachers union, NYSUT, have also quietly turned off the campaign cash spigot and is reassessing its contribution habits for everyone from Gov. Andrew Cuomo on down following the passage of Tier VI.

On Thursday, Jon Hilsenrath and Victoria McGrane wrote, «Fed Split Over How Long to Keep Cash Spigot Open», throwing doubt on Federal Reserve chairman Bernanke's indication that rates would stay low into 2015.

In Los Angeles as of late, it seems the cash spigots have been turned on for several large - scale developments...

Apocalype movies are a venerable enough genre (and reliable enough as box office cash spigots) to support a few lightweight, funny - sad - romantic entries every once in a while.