Word: pump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposed dismantling the U.S. Department of Energy that was set up four years ago as a watchdog of the nation's energy supplies. Meanwhile, widespread chatter about a worldwide oil "glut" has further calmed nerves, and proof of abundant supplies has been readily at hand at the gasoline pump, where prices have actually been falling...
...really interesting thing about the Pentagon gym is that it's not actually reserved for officers. Anyone, from the secretarial pool on up, can pump a little iron with the top brass. "We talk about movies, we talk about exercise, we keep tabs on everyone's weight, and we have a lot of laughs," the Times quoted on participant as saying...
...city will spend about $3 million in the next few years repairing its water system because, as public works commissioner Conrad Fagone said yesterday, "it's just getting old." The water system is currently running at normal capacity only with the aid of a spare pump at the Fresh Pond reservior public works facility. Last week a massive electrical charge, caused by an explosion at the Rindge Towers apartment buildings in North Cambridge, blew out one of the three pumps used to bring water from the reservoir into the main system...
...will take at least "a couple of weeks" to repair the broken water pump, Fagone said, adding that the cost of the repair work has yet to be determined...
Within three years after the University donated the underpass to the city in 1965, the bridge began to leak "drastically" during every rainstorm, forcing city employees to pump out thousands of gallons of water, public works commissioner Conrad Fagone said...