Word: pump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outings at the Indianapolis 500, Gordon Johncock, 45, had been stymied by broken crankshafts, flat tires, dry gas tanks and fuel-pump failures. His one earlier Indy win, in 1973, had come in a race that was stopped by rain after 332.5 miles. "It seems throughout my career," he says, "that it hasn't been meant for me to run 500 miles." This year Johncock managed to hold on for a full-length victory, though the jaws of defeat were snapping close behind. With 13 laps left, Johncock's STP Wildcat-Cosworth was 12 sec. ahead...
Dealing with "the same idiot customers" and working for the same boss helped bridge the gulfs between Klingensmith and his fellow pump jockeys. "Our topics of discussion were cars--certainly not my Honda, but the other guys' souped up Nova--and woman, especially the female customers. There was always a fight to see who was going to get the most attractive woman...We sort of lived from one attractive customer to the next...
...lack of support and encouragement (does anyone ever receive a notice that he made Dean's Last?)-is the natural result of the easing of outdated restrictions. But it is also symptomatic of the University's general reluctance to get involved in anything, at any level, that won't pump up its already over inflated chest. For instance, my four years here have seen one sector or another of this University refuse to do anything positive about or to take a meaningful stand on apartheid in South America, explicit rights for gay undergraduates, and a pervasive lack of American History...
...water shortage problem. The depleted Ogallala Aquifer is a result of the Government's refusal to address two problems. First, there is no federal water policy that would ensure all states the right of access to the water. Under the current laws, Nebraska, for example, could pump the entire aquifer into its reservoirs without any repercussion from its surrounding water-dependent neighbors...
From a low of fractionally less than $1 per gal. for unleaded regular on some markets, gasoline prices have started to firm up. According to Daniel Lundberg, publisher of the Lundberg Letter, a gasoline marketing weekly, the average nationwide price of fuel at the pump has nudged up by close to 1? since mid-April, to about $1.18 per gal. The rise was the first since March 1981, when gasoline prices peaked at an average of nearly $1.38 per gal. Lundberg expects that the cost of gasoline will jump 3? to 4? more by the end of the month...