Word: pump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wait behind the garage door. Taking a back-up position, Deborah allegedly cradled a .30-cal. automatic carbine in the living room, in case their father escaped their first line of fire. The planning was unnecessary: Richard, aiming through the plywood garage door, hit his father with four pump-action blasts while his mother sat in horror...
Trying to downplay the White House's responsibility for such a dismal prospect, Feldstein and Treasury Secretary Donald Regan have argued repeatedly in recent weeks that the U.S. is plagued by a high rate of "structural unemployment," which cannot be cured by the Government's traditional pump-priming tactics of boosting spending or expanding the money supply. The term structural unemployment is a fuzzy concept that has been bandied about by economists for years, but has no clear-cut definition. Generally speaking, it refers to people out of work not as a result of a recession, but because...
...team with Jarvik as an observer. Working quietly and steadily to the hushed strains of Ravel's Bolero, DeVries made a 9½-in. incision from the breastbone to the abdomen and carefully completed the delicate task of connecting Clark to a heart-lung bypass machine that would pump and oxygenate his blood until the plastic heart was in place...
...hospital estimates that the family will have to spend $2,700 to adapt an apartment to the patient's needs. Clark's activities will, however, be limited not only by the reach of his life lines but by the fact that the heart cannot pump enough blood to support more than moderate activity. In the past, DeVries has commented that "sex may be the most strenuous thing these patients...
...levy a tax that would raise money for repairing the nation's tattered transportation arteries, the proposal received almost instant bipartisan support. The Administration plan, expected to be sent up to Congress this week, envisions a 5? levy on refiners, to be passed through to motorists at the pump, that would increase the total federal gas tax to 9? per gal. and cost the average driver an additional $30 a year...