Word: pump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Louis, and there establish his White House. Rents certainly would be cheaper, the view perhaps clearer. For old time's sake the candidate could still schedule a couple of speeches a week in distant cities, give those hours to the archaic evenings of smoke and oratory, pump the hands of people at the fences and endorse the local candidates. There would remain the need to make the far-off cadres of campaign workers feel as if they were a part of the operation...
...rivers and barefoot women." He dreamed of his old basketball days, and his old laying-Janice-in-the-backroom days, and of making it with a DuPont in Delaware. Then he stopped at a gas station, and found he was travelling in circles. The stupid farmer at the gas-pump said: "The only way to get somewhere, you know, is to figure out where you're going before you go there...
...California's Santa Barbara Channel, which fouled beaches and killed wildlife. In rebuttal, oilmen argue that their record is good: only three major spills from more than 14,000 offshore drilling operations. To that, environmentalists reply that there are countless unreported small leaks that together pump far more pollution into the sea than the big spills...
Unmoved, Figueres grabbed an M-3 submachine gun, ran to the scene and ordered his troopers to pump tear gas into the jetliner's ventilating system. Moments later firing broke out inside the plane. Don Pepe gave the order to attack. "Get them!" he cried. The plane's rear door suddenly dropped open and a stewardess hurtled clown the steps unhurt. One of the gunmen followed, but was cut down by a hail of bullets before he hit the ground. After that, the two other skyjackers surrendered, and the crew escaped without injury...
...company that has relied heavily on mergers for its remarkable record of increased earnings for 49 consecutive quarters. But Geneen, a wily, English born accountant, had calculated the odds. In return for the U.S. companies that are on the block, ITT will get some $600 million. It will pump much of this into Europe. Thus, by restricting ITT in the U.S., the trustbusters helped to provide the company with both the funds and the incentive to expand explosively-and create jobs-abroad...