Word: pump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Knudsen still hopes to persuade the banks to pump fresh money into his company. Meanwhile, he is trying to keep White rolling by cutting $38 million this year from operating costs. Among other things, he plans to shrink administrative and sales staffs and close a research-and-development facility. Even if White Motor goes under, there are rumors that several corporations might buy up pieces of the company, if the price were right. But for the moment, both Knudsen's and White's prospects look exceedingly black...
...strike illustrates a growing danger for the economy: what had been expected to be a relatively peaceful labor-bargaining climate this year is turning testy. The walkout will not immediately hurt national production, but a long strike could damage the recovery, and a high settlement could pump up now-subsiding inflation. Unhappily, the nation is almost sure to get one or the other outcome, if not both. As one Detroit Uniroyal worker put it, "We settled short last time, and now business is booming and we gotta get ours...
...Pump People. The part had already been turned down by, among others, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Colleen Dewhurst and Geraldine Page, either because they considered the character, the steel-tempered nurse, offensive to women or because, on a more practical basis, the role was neither as large nor as strong as McMurphy's. Fletcher was not in a position to be choosy. At 41, she had appeared in only one previous film (a supporting part in Robert Altman's Thieves Like Us) and, indeed, had dropped out of acting almost entirely after making a bright start in television...
...used, and has become financially hard-pressed. Kesey, his wife Faye and some friends watched the Oscars on TV at their Oregon farm, noting that, save for a passing mention by Forman, nobody had anything to say about book or author. "These people, they're like pump salesmen," Kesey says. "They stand around and talk about their wonderful pumps, how marvelous they are, how good the water tastes that comes through their pumps. They don't even seem to know the water comes from a well...
Part of the reason for the shift in taste is that the public has got over its fear of gas shortages, become inured to pump prices of more than 50? per gal., and is willing to spend a bit more for a larger car. In any case, the decline of the subcompacts, which usually carry sticker prices of $2,900 to $3,400, is striking: from 10% of the market just after the embargo to 7.7% now. While inventories of most other cars are sufficient to supply only 60 days of sales, dealers have a 100-day supply of Ford...