Word: pump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House moves to pump in some professionalism...
There were signs the gulf members intend to present their new price, whatever it is, to the rest of OPEC on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. By far the largest producers in OPEC, they could send prices through the floor if they chose to pump flat out. The threat could bring Nigeria and other wayward nations into line. As Mani Said al-Oteiba, oil minister for the United Arab Emirates, declared after the two-day Riyadh meeting, "If the other OPEC nations do not accept this accord, the gulf states will have to cut the price even more...
...forestall a renewed outbreak of inflation led the bond market to boom, and prices of everything from silver futures to soybeans fell. Gold tumbled $60 during the week. Experts estimate that every $2-per-bbl. drop in oil prices cuts U.S. gasoline costs by 50 per gal. at the pump, so motorists should soon feel some gains. Home heating-oil prices also will decline...
...night of June 3, 1973, a Chevrolet Caprice, driven by a woman, was forced off Interstate 57 in southern Cook County, Ill., by a car carrying four men. One of them pointed a 12-gauge pump shotgun at her, ordered her to strip and then to climb through a barbed-wire fence at the side of the road. As she begged for her life, her assailant thrust the shotgun barrel into her vagina and fired. After watching her agonies for several minutes, he finished her off with a blast to the throat. Less than an hour later, the marauding motorists...
...most despairing group of economists today may be the Keynesians, who enjoyed prominence as the leading school of thought during the 1960s and '70s. They met their Waterloo in the late '70s, when their pump-priming policies pushed up inflation. Says Allan Meltzer, a Carnegie-Mellon University professor and an influential monetarist: "If the Keynesian program had worked, Jimmy Carter would still be President." Although many Keynesians now want to trim the deficit, the recession has emboldened others to call for continued high deficit spending. Says Lester Thurow, a leading Keynesian who teaches at the Massachusetts Institute...