Over the weekend BP successfully mounted a pipe to siphon some of the oil and gas from the leaking wild well.
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These companies are looking for a way to make money on their products without first having to siphon off a portion their income to Microsoft.
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And what if the leaker is determined to siphon out a rarer, seldom-accessed file without flagging network monitoring technologies?
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It is conceivable that Goldman's trading systems could siphon off a sizable enough chunk of global traffic to rival, say, the New York Stock Exchange.
The trial of a man from Dundee at the High Court in Edinburgh has been hearing details of a scam used to siphon off millions of pounds in VAT.
The technological shift from desk-bound personal computers to wireless devices is driving the FTC's push for major revisions to the law, known as COPPA. It was written before an era of cellphones and tablets loaded with apps that can be designed to siphon up a person's precise location and other personal data highly valued by advertisers and data brokers.
Picking a model that subsequently spends an inordinate of time in the repair shop can quickly siphon away any savings realized from buying a used car in the first place.
In the past, such deals have been a way for Russian bosses to siphon assets and cash from companies they run to companies they own.
Companies, governments, and other entities must understand how to mitigate or reduce losses from a multitude of criminal schemes designed to siphon assets, in many forms, which ultimately destroy many enterprises.
Republicans fear that a third-party run by Buchanan would siphon conservative votes from their nominee.
Another employs superconductors (which really do work only at very low temperatures) to try to siphon the hottest electrons out of a device.
This turned into a crisis last January when Belarus started to siphon the oil off the pipes and Gazprom then cut the oil from pumping.
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What the scheme is not is a giant leap towards a common economic government, with the power to siphon huge sums from rich to poor bits of the union.
Zynga announced that it would soon be launching its own platform, and while it faces an uphill battle, it could soon become a formidable enemy to Facebook if it starts to siphon off games traffic.
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Warlords such as Ismail Khan, operating out of the western province of Herat, siphon off customs revenue at source, sending only a fraction of the receipts to Kabul.
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It may be a matter of national pride (and, as a result, an effective mechanism that some may use to siphon funding from Congress to subsidize HPC research), but the much more important question is whether we are investing in the education and training of the next generation of computer scientists who will use the power from such machines.
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That being said, if local, state or federal governments are to siphon tax revenues from personal income or production, it is contingent upon a representative government to provide transparency to those paying the tax.
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As the dual centerpieces of the NHL's best team, the Blackhawks' Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews could siphon votes from each other, and Washington's Alex Ovechkin (a two-time MVP) has scored 18 goals over his previous 15 games.
That would mean cutting the existing riser, but now that the siphon inserted into it is bringing oil up to the barges it means risking a serious setback.
This PIN-pad scheme is in some ways just a variation on fairly common ATM skimming hardware techniques, which attach to the machines and invisibly siphon off credit card data.
But mindful of a barrage of criticism following last year's festival, festival organiser Michael Eavis - who has announced the festival will continue for a further five years - has spent the last six months working on new drainage channels to siphon off excess water.
Ukraine was therefore in a position to control the flow of energy to Europe and, argue its detractors, to illegally siphon gas for its own use.
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Luther stumbled when Sam Garst, a Democrat and former Luther financier, publicly acknowledged he entered the race under the No New Taxes Party to help siphon away votes from Kline.
Huge stock trading volume spikes in the last couple of days have been a boon not only to the exchanges but to the new crop of alternative trading sites that have been trying to siphon market share away from them.
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