Word: pump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...table is a phonograph for his four children-ages six, eight, ten and twelve -and Amy Carter to play if they happen to come by in the afternoon. On the turntable last week was a 45 r.p.m. record of a satirical country-and-western song titled I'll Pump the Gas, Jimmy (You Run the Country...
...Premier suddenly fired all but one of his 22 Cabinet ministers, most of whom were political appointees, and named a new team chosen on the basis of merit. A prime goal of the shakeup, Fukuda indicated, was to pump up the domestic economy, which should not only please Japanese consumers and workers but give businessmen more incentive to sell at home rather than abroad. Underscoring Japan's concern about its strained trade relations with the U.S. and Europe, Fukuda also created a new Cabinet post, Minister of External Economic Affairs, and named Nobuhiko Ushiba, 68, a former Ambassador...
Harvard was still clinging to a 62-61 lead after A1 Williams dropped a double-pump jumper for Fordham, but the Rams took the lead for keeps when Lombardi drilled home a ten-foot jumper to make it 63-62 with 4:25 left to play...
...next task will be to pump the order through the governmental circulatory system. Part of the problem is that the proliferation of rules often takes place in the depths of the bureaucracy, not at the top. A program chief hears a complaint and summons a committee, which calls in lawyers. New regulations are drafted, then sent to a boss who approves them. The regulations are printed; sent to the field; and one morning a federal authority is insisting-to take actual cases-that ice cannot be added to drinking water, chickens cannot be processed in rooms with tile floors, fire...
President Carter should examine the Government's unfair double-taxation policies before accusing the oil companies of a "ripoff" [Oct. 24]. The Government taxes the companies for producing energy, and the public for consuming gasoline at the pump. It is the Government that is ripping everyone off with its taxation of both the producer and consumer...