Word: pump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years this nation has suffered from cardiac insufficiency. Now the heart is beginning to pump again under Jerry Ford. One can feel the renewed strength running through the Federal Government. If the old rules of leadership osmosis still apply, the rest of the country should feel the effects in a few months...
...without a country-but he is now a man who finds more honor and respect, cheers and adulation beyond American shores. There is something wistful about his journeys. People in the streets by the thousands shout his praises. Kings attack his political enemies at home. Communists pump up his stature and give him the security and secretiveness he cannot have in a democracy...
...life that Nixon relishes and one in which he excels. Beyond the catcalls of Congress, beyond the Investigators and the hostile press, he is sovereign. His flying White House is self-sufficient. The American diplomatic, military and commercial presence all over the world forms a system of arteries that pump in services, advice and even encouragement. (Bebe Rebozo was "in the neighborhood" when Nixon arrived in Brussels and so hopped up from Spain for a few minutes' chat with his friend.) The President's meetings are small and confidential. His right to stay above and beyond the masses...
...Third Pump. Federal officials concede that the changeover to unleaded gas may create some minor problems. The environmental agency will require an additional 10,000 stations in sparsely populated areas to offer unleaded fuel, and predicts that most smaller outlets for major oil companies will take on the new gas voluntarily. Altogether, the EPA estimates that in only 41 of the nation's 3,000-odd counties will motorists have to drive more than a few miles to find unleaded gas. Agency officials also note that 300,000 small nozzles have already been produced and are in wide distribution...
...prices go still higher. They are applying for bank loans at an astonishingly rapid pace; between February and May, bank loans to business expanded at an annual rate of no less than $45 billion. The Federal Reserve Board, rightly viewing the borrowing surge as inflationary, has deliberately refused to pump enough money into the banking system to accommodate the loan demand...