Word: pump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When it comes to encouraging a social conscience in business, Raymond says professors can try, but they really "can't pump ethics. We raise the considerations, but I leave the decisions to the students...
...Germany did that, its trade surplus would shrink and the deutsche mark would cease its inexorable rise against the dollar. When Administration officials charge that West Germany's refusal to cooperate really amounts to an effort to have things both ways, they have a point. By refusing to pump up its economy, and choosing instead to keep its factories humming as a result of demand from the U.S., Bonn has copped a free ride out of the 1974-75 global recession, and avoided the inflationary risks inherent in stimulating West Germany's own domestic demand...
...think pump of Engine is Charles Lang (Dwight Schultz), who has devised a method for producing energy by splitting the hydrogen and oxygen atoms in water. That amorphous villain, Big Biz, sends two oily agents (David Sabin and Bill Moor) to intimidate Lang out of his invention. When he resists, they murder him and his sister (Patti LuPone...
Joseph Jenks, a Lynn, Mass. ironmaker, made the first fire engine in the United States in 1654. It consisted of a pump worked by relays of men at the handles and received its water supply from lines of bucket passers who dumped the water into the cistern...
Suddenly, Miller started going out of control, presenting an offensive display that had the fans howling. Harvard played scrappy defense, but Miller was dropping in tip-ins, set shots, reverse layups and double-pump runners to send B.U. into the locker room ahead, 30-20, at the half...