A leaky doghouse.

Our faucet was leaking.

But the faucet kept dripping.

Take a look at the faucet.

I pushed my big toe up the faucet.

And then the faucet, there, is a beer tap.

Well, why don't you turn on the cold faucet?

Then, this faucet here is just a piece of Osage Orange.

And that is, you don't put water into a leaky bucket.

These models, like the leaky bucket, work well in most situations.

Go stick your head under a faucet and cool off, Tibby.

Bang, her head cracks the faucet. Almost perfect crime. Ordinary accident.

She slipped in the tub and opened her skull on a faucet.

Knowing how leaky the telephone cables are between here and Buenos Aires,

And the bigger picture is we need to find a way to turn off the faucet.

Waste of water. Great, they busted the faucet now I have to look for a plumber.

But the first few systems were these leaky, loud power guzzlers that Martha Stewart would definitely never have approved.

Look, son, here's your money back. You stick to riding that leaky motorcycle. It's closer to the ground, son.

And so, really, so much of what we do in medicine and life in general is focused on mopping up the floor without also turning off the faucet.

We turn on the faucet, the water comes out, we assume it's safe, and we assume that we are masters of our environment, rather than being part of it.

Last week, our colleague and my friend, the Ambassador of Pakistan, compared the United Nations to an old and leaky sailboat that we are trying to repair in mid voyage.

Yet imposing capital controls on inflows is difficult and sometimes leaky. Macroprudential controls on credit growth are useful, but sometimes ineffective in stopping asset bubbles when low interest rates continue to underpin generous liquidity conditions.

MUNICH With pain and misgiving, the United States Congress bailed out Wall Street in order to prevent a meltdown of America s financial system. But the 700 billion to be used may flow into a leaky bucket, and so may the billions provided by governments throughout the world.

She notes that some reports have revealed the presence of iodium 131 in significant quantities in the lagoon of Mururoa after the tests, and surmises that the discovery of caesium 134 in the lagoon apos s waters is an indicator of the leaky nature of the underground shafts, from which more radioactivity is likely to escape in the future.

The fourth option is to impose capital controls on inflows (or liberalize controls on outflows). Leaving aside the issue of whether or not such controls are leaky, evidence suggests that controls on inflows of short term hot money do not affect the overall amount of capital inflows. Thus, such controls are ineffective in reducing short term cyclical pressure on the currency to appreciate.