Word: pump
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...would consumers, of course. The new regulations would increase the amount of crude oil needed to make gasoline and thus boost costs for refiners. Thomas estimates the additional cost to be $450 million a year, or 1/2 cent per gal. at the gas pump. But oil companies say the burden would be more like $2 billion. The second proposal would require automakers to enlarge the charcoal canisters that are placed inside gas tanks to reduce the emission of fumes. Thomas says this modification would add only $19 to the sticker price of a typical car, but automakers argue that...
...mood among 3,000 hometown supporters gathered in front of the restored Victorian train station in Wilmington, Del., was as buoyant as the red, white and blue balloons waiting to be unleashed to the sky. Yet there was Joe Biden, gambling that he could pump up the crowd even higher while challenging his middle-class neighbors with the specter of a "nation at risk" from materialist values, declining industries, drug abuse, inadequate schools and kids abandoned to poverty. "It is the plight of our children that is the moral test of our time," he roared in a voice that bounced...
LABOR SHORTAGES. Unemployment rates in the megacounties are phenomenally low: less than 3% in Fairfield County, Conn., for instance. Middle managers and computer programmers can be enticed by high salaries, but where to find the laborers to build the new offices, the clerks to staff the stores, the pump jockeys to keep the cars running? Not from the local working class; in many communities there is none. Manual and low-paid clerical workers cannot afford the housing prices (Orange County median price for a new home: $125,000); indeed, many of the children who grow up in those houses must...
...speech provided only the rough outline for the program which was to pump into 16 European nations what would be the equivalent today of $60 billion current. The money revived their economies and created an allied Western front which has stood with relative stability for the last four decades...
...pump is an economy device. I assume it prevents you from having to squeeze all the stuff up from the bottom, the way the Crest people tell you to use your paste. Still, does toothpaste cost so much that we have to scrape every last brushfull out of the dispenser...