Word: pump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...COMMON complaint, particularly in hard-core auto magaziens, is that bicyclists should be kept off the roads because they don't pay road-use taxes the way cars do at the gas pump or trucks do directly. The argument may sound good, but it doesn't hold water No bicycle ever eroded a road shoulder or made a pothole like an overweighted truck. Bicycling is a cheap clean alternative to driving and should be encouraged if for none other than utilitarian reasons. When possible, cities should build bike paths like those along the Charles River. But in cramped cities where...
...find an alternative route that will allow them to replenish their war-drained treasury. It was learned last week that a suggestion had come from an unexpected source: the Israelis. In an interview with the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv, Prime Yitzhak Shamir revealed that offered to let Iraq pump its oil through long-unused pipeline, built in the 1930s, stretches from Baghdad to the Israeli port of Haifa. Iraq, which does not recognize Israel, rejected the invitation...
...nerves in or near these organs. In the vast majority of cases, cancer pain can be alleviated with drug therapy, including narcotics like morphine or methadone. These may be administered by mouth, by injection into the muscle or directly into the spine via surgically implanted catheters. An implantable morphine pump that provides a continuous infusion of the drug is being tested for use by cancer patients. Unfortunately, patients may develop tolerance to narcotics, and their doctors often fail to provide high enough doses to keep pain...
...Taylor insists that Continental still hopes to remain independent. "That is our top priority," he said, "and we are aggressively pursuing that option." A bank task force nicknamed Operation Bootstrap has been devising strategies. One possibility: sell Continental's $2.3 billion in bad loans to investor groups and pump the cash back into the bank...
...even that effort proved too small to keep panicky corporate customers in the U.S., Europe and Japan from withdrawing $8 billion a day in deposits. By week's end the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and private lenders had to pump $2 billion directly into Continental. Though it normally does not insure amounts of more than $100,000, the FDIC went so far as to pledge that all the bank's depositors and creditors would be "fully protected." In addition, the Federal Reserve Board, which had also been supplying credit to Continental, promised to continue doing so until...