Word: pump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Federal spending. Businessmen are concerned about Carter's apparent plan to juice up the economy by cutting taxes and other pump-priming measures next year. "He faces a terrible temptation to heat things up," says Thomas Ayers, the chairman of Chicago's Commonwealth Edison. "I hope he chooses a moderate course." Declares Norman Robertson, senior vice president and chief economist of Pittsburgh's Mellon Bank: "If he should try to adopt the Humphrey-Hawkins bill [which calls for heavy spending on public-service employment] or something like it, trying to reach a predetermined level of unemployment...
...Representative H. John Heinz III (R-Pa.), who spent about $2 million on his campaign, Buckley's expenditures have outstripped those of any other Senatorial candidate. Moynihan's campaign, on the other hand, is running in the red, and recently Moynihan staffers agreed to forego their salaries to pump more money into television advertising to counteract Buckley's saturation-level media campaign...
That decline has been due mainly to Ford's inflation-fighting fiscal prudence-holding down his budget proposals and vetoing many bills-a refreshing departure from the usual tendency of Presidents to pump up the economy during election years. Beyond that, the Government in the past six months has spent $10 billion to $15 billion less than both the Republican Administration and the Democratic Congress had expected. Nobody is sure of the reasons for this drop...
...Would you please move your car closer to the pump...
...Michelin, the French tiremaker may eventually pump $1.5 billion into plants in South Carolina. The company has already sunk $300 million into three new factories. One that is being built in Spartanburg may well employ 1, 200 people...