Word: pump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attempts to use simian hearts: in a 26-year-old woman, who survived for only six hours, and in a 59-year-old man, who died four days after surgery. In each case, Barnard "piggybacked" the animal organ onto the patient's own heart to act as a supplementary pump. He decided to abandon the technique because of the poor results and the risks of becoming "emotionally attached" to donor chimpanzees, which, he says "are very much like humans." Barnard is nonetheless enthusiastic about the Baby Fae case and has no qualms about the use of baboons, which, he says...
...Reagan seemed to say to the public: "In order to a) decrease taxes, b) cut spending, c) pump up the military and d) reduce the deficit, we need to elect Republicans. Democrats just haven't done the job." Such a campaign strategy gave the voters a reason for going with the Republicans; these nationally-voiced ideals supposedly led to the mandate--and a gain of 34 seats in the House of Representatives--which the voters dropped into the President...
Reagan and Vice President Bush traveled to Tennessee this fall to pump prestige into Victor Ashe's underdog campaign. The President has a 2-to-l lead over Walter Mondale in the state, and Ashe is shrewdly campaigning under a "Reagan-Ashe" banner. His opponent is far less comfortable with a "Mondale-Gore" tag. Ashe pressed his rival on this point during a televised debate by offering him $5 merely to mention the Democratic presidential candidate by name on the air. Nonplussed, Gore ducked the taunt. But his lead, though still strong, has narrowed to some 20 points...
Federal regulators, who have been forced to pump loans worth more than $2 billion into F.C.A. since July to offset withdrawals by jittery depositors, are angry about the parting payment and are said to be pressing F.C.A.'s board to recoup the cash. That, however, will not be easy. Knapp arranged for the $2 million to be deposited in a foreign account. The money is probably beyond the Breach of U.S. authorities and F.C.A. share; holders. While Government regulators back home seek new ways to keep F.C.A. afloat, notably by backing the company's plan to sell...
Keynes, who held that deficit spending could pump up a slack economy. Johnson later balked at the pleas of his Keynesian advisers to pay for the Viet Nam War with higher taxes in order to keep the economy from overheating and pushing up prices. Nonetheless, so prestigious had Keynes' views become that even Republican President Nixon could declare in 1971, "I am now a Keynesian...