Word: pump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While approximately 150 students reluctantly left Lamont to wait in the rain or go elsewhere to study, the Cambridge Fire Department shut off the power to the pump 20 minutes after the air-conditioner short-circuited...
...shippers and more jobs for U.S. seamen, but, economists estimate, it could cost the nation an additional $300 million for foreign oil. Because of higher transportation costs, the big petroleum companies would have to pay more for Arabian crude and charge more for gasoline at the pump. Hence the curious coalition between giants of the industry and consumer advocates in lobbying against the bill...
...diminutive crown of 4985 (most of whom were either turned off by Monday Night Football in particular or the Red Wings in general) watched their Pistons pump out to an early 10-0 lead before Boston scored its first bucket four minutes into the opening quarter...
Nonetheless, Barre is resisting pressure from worried politicians on the right to pump up the economy more before the elections. Last week he presented to the French National Assembly a 1978 budget that provides only a modest $1.8 billion deficit. Says Barre: "We are engaged in a long-term battle. This is not the moment to undo what we have achieved." He is getting help from a most unexpected source: the labor unions. Though many are led by the Socialists or Communists, the unions have been more docile this year than at any time in recent memory. Reason: they...
Like ordinary sphygmomanometers, they work by measuring the surge of arterial blood that occurs immediately after the tightened cuff is slightly released. The major difference is that the precise moment of maximum flow, when the heart is pumping hardest-represented by the upper, or systolic, blood pressure-and that of minimum flow, or diastolic reading, are not determined by a doctor or technician listening for the coursing blood with a stethoscope pressed against the forearm. Instead, that job is done by a tiny microphone in the cuff, which sends its signals to the machine's miniature "brain"-tiny silicon...