Word: pump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main beneficiary of any Saudi price cuts will be the Riyadh treasury. While lower crude-oil rates will mean fewer dollars per bbl., they could trigger an increase in sales. That would pump badly needed cash into a nation that has seen its foreign currency reserves drop by some $20 billion in the past year, to less than $100 billion...
...board noted further that the large volume of dollars that the Federal Reserve continues to pump into the economy makes a slump unlikely during the next twelve months. But should the Fed suddenly tighten the money supply, the action could raise the chances of a downturn sometime next year. Board members expect the GNP to expand somewhat more rapidly in the second half of this year than it did in the first, growing 2.8% from July to December. That remains well below the Reagan Administration's optimistic forecast of 5% growth over the same period. Said Charles Schultze, a senior...
Michael Drummond seemed to be adjusting smoothly to his new artificial heart. Within days after a Jarvik-7 pump was implanted in his chest late in August, the 25-year-old Phoenix assistant grocery manager was eating solid food, walking with help and doing leg and arm exercises. Drummond's steady progress seemed to augur well for the next phase of his treatment: a second operation, to remove the mechanical device, which had been implanted only as a stopgap measure, and to replace it with a human donor heart...
Obviously, it takes a lot to deflect Jerry Falwell from broadcasting his message, for television is the pump of his vast Fundamentalist empire. And yet there is something shockingly worldly about his endless selling. What are we to make of this fatherly Bible banger, this artful entrepreneur in rube's clothing who sups with Presidents and world leaders, and reaches out directly to the simplest of men and women? His earnest warnings about America's moral decay, the breakdown of family values, are instinctively appealing. Is he, as his followers proclaim, the truest and bravest voice in the whole Fundamentalist...
...Museum of Science's 20,000 sq. ft. multi-level floor area allows spacious presentation of participatory displays interspersed among the many artifacts. Visitors have the opportunity to smell an array of herbal medicines, test their ability to read Chinese pictographs, pump water with a dragon-bone irrigation pump, and try the famous Tai Ji Quan exercises...