Word: pump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Target. Thus the independent Fed is sure to come under heavy White House prodding to pump out enough money to bring interest rates down again. The Federal Reserve governors have already taken one step to resist such pressure. In recent months the board adopted a new operating method to influence the money and credit available to the economy. The method focuses on a new target: bank reserves against private deposits. In effect, this tactic emphasizes new precision in the control of vast aggregates of money and puts less stress on influencing specific interest rates. Thus the board is purposely paying...
There is even an International Frisbee Tournament held annually in the isolated Michigan Upper Peninsula community of Copper Harbor (pop. 50). Two weeks ago, several thousand spectators came to watch 36 teams bearing such titles as the Function Junction Double Suction Pump Five and the Humbly Magnificent Champions of the Universe compete for the world's Guts Frisbee championship. Some of the players came from as far away as Canada, Germany and Australia. And though the tournament's atmosphere of low camp was clearly a spoof on all organized sports, the matches were fought in dead earnest...
...FAIR, 29, a Princeton assistant professor, has focused primarily on providing McGovern with short-term forecasts of the economy's performance and drafting full-employment plans. Along with fellow Princetonian William Branson, he is the author of the Senator's proposal for a $10 billion pump-priming infusion of federal funds into public projects that would, according to their projections, lower the unemployment rate from 5.5% to 4% or less. Brisk and talkative, Fair has been gratified to see many of his memos appear almost verbatim in McGovern's speeches and congressional testimony...
...your basement is still flooded, do not pump it out too fast as the pressure of the surrounding earth may cause the walls to collapse. Do not attempt to turn on your own electricity if any water is still in the house, even a damp floor. Do not connect any electrical appliances which have been under water...
...There is some question whether such techniques would work where there are no natural vents. The Los Alamos National Laboratory is now trying to exploit the dry, hot (600° F.) granite that underlies most of the earth. Scientists plan to sink two holes 15,000 ft. deep, then pump cold water down one well and let hot steam flow up the other. If successful, the dry-rock system might provide, says one scientist, "all the electricity America will need for the next 3,000 years...