They point to real-estate developers, the predominantly white banking system and The Washington Post as The Plan's principal conduits.

Despite the uncertainty, some fashion executives think that Hong Kong will remain the principal conduit for the garment trade in East Asia, no matter who controls the government.

Such publications have long been barred from the official press club, whose 101 members were until recently the principal conduit through which the public received official news relating to the prime minister.

Mexico has become the principal conduit for South American cocaine as well as a supplier of homegrown marijuana and heroin.

The world could not get enough news about the movies, and Miss Kingsley was the principal conduit between the studios and public.

For those who came in late, Mr. Cage is our principal conduit for meditative Oriental precepts as applied to music.

Being the principal conduits for draining ice sheets, fjords' extension inland increases the rate of ice sheet thinning.

He also cited Southeast Asia, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen and Saudi Arabia as principal conduits for terrorist money.

Pakistan is the principal conduit for American aid to the guerrillas, who have been battling Soviet troops in Afghanistan since 1979.

At the same time, the East River had become a principal conduit for the shipment of Southern cotton to Europe and of European products to the South.