Word: pump
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...INVESTMENTS. The proposed ban on all new investments by U.S. businesses in South Africa, including improvements in subsidiaries there, is another example of a trend already taking place because of market forces. Rather than pump new money into these operations in the unpredictable situation in South Africa, parent companies in the U.S. have been selling off assets or letting branches use their profits to modernize. Result: a net flow of capital from the subsidiaries to their U.S. headquarters rather than the reverse. No U.S. company has moved into South Africa since 1983. Less U.S. business activity in South Africa crimps...
...discount rate that it charges on loans to member banks, from 6.5% to 6%. Several major U.S. banks then lowered the prime rate that they charge preferred corporate customers, from 8.5% to 8%. The Fed's action was the third such cut this year, evidently designed to pump more oomph back into the sagging U.S. economy. Word that the rate cut was coming may have curbed investor nervousness. On the other hand, if the announcement was supposed to lead investors thundering back into the market, it failed...
...Magovern slipped it into the chest cavity with the muscle's nerve system and major blood supply intact, then wrapped it around Jones' heart like a towel. After a week's recovery time, he began stimulating the transplanted skeletal muscle with a pacemaker, causing it to contract and help pump blood. Less than a year later, Jones reports that she can walk a mile or two without difficulty and even play basketball with her daughter...
...bacterial infection that increases the amount of mucus in the lungs, the disease sometimes results in convulsions and death. Over the past four decades, however, pertussis has been largely subdued in developed nations by mass inoculations with a vaccine made from killed pertussis bacteria. Now doctors annually pump some 18 million doses of the vaccine into U.S. children--usually in the form of a D.P.T. shot, so called because it also provides protection against diphtheria and tetanus. Some 40 states require children to have D.P.T. inoculations before they are allowed to enter school...
...lady with the unusual haircut and add her to the stack. Go get Meyer and the boat and bring the boat around. Use the big anchor and the power takeoff winch to pull the Flush out of the mangroves. Cork up the Munequita and rig a pump and float her." The form has also had its share of parodies. The best was S.J. Perelman's Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer: "I shifted my two hundred pounds slightly, lazily set fire to a finger, and watched it burn down...