Goldman Sachs and other companies that had gotten money from bailouts got even more government money as it was funneled back to pay AIG's claims 100 cents on the dollar.
However wealth comes into the country, most of it is funneled to the sultan and his cronies.
Heroin is plentiful around New York, law enforcement officials say, because it is funneled by Colombian traffickers who undercut Asian suppliers by offering a purer product.
From 1971 to 1997, New York City banned disposals, also called garbage grinders, which shred organic waste as it is funneled down the sink drain.
The velocity of the wind is intensified as it blows down from the highlands to the coast and by the "jet effect" that results as it is funneled through the narrow Rhône valley.
A5 Helms's Plan for Foreign Aid Senator Jesse Helms said he would champion a rise in international assistance, provided it was funneled through private charities and religious groups instead of the Agency for International Development.
Usually light, a mountain breeze may become a violent, gusty wind when it is funneled through a narrow gorge into which cold air has drained from many higher valleys.
Looking at the coal-handling machinery -- the silos where coal is washed of impurities, the loading deck where it is funneled into rail cars -- I feel as if I'm passing through a theme-park exhibit about How Life Used to Be in America.
Though much of the information from Mr. Chalabi's sources about weapons of mass destruction later turned out to be incorrect or fabricated, Mr. Bamford writes, it was funneled to the White House and to the press -- most notably, The New York Times -- to help sell the "war to the American public".
In a letter to the banks, Mr. Kaspar-Ansermet referred to "certain elements of information" indicating that the $4.8 billion had been deposited in a Ticino bank account opened in the name of the Ost-West Handelsbank, a German affiliate of the Russian central bank, and an Austrian bank, Creditanstalt, before it was funneled to banks in other countries.
