Word: pump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They can hardly buy up more oil and gas properties without running afoul of antitrust laws. At the same time, oil companies' investments outside of natural minerals have often been bummers. Exxon has reportedly lost heavily on its venture into office equipment, and Mobil has been forced to pump millions into the Montgomery Ward retail chain that it bought in 1976. Moreover, natural resources look like a smart investment. President Reagan's pledge to increase defense spending should increase the demand for strategic materials. The stocks of many mining companies are currently depressed and thus are a good...
...call it Bing-Bing, Cong-Cong or any of those ca-ca double expressions. Why, just once, can't there be a panda named Archie or Bert? Got to go. We're pulling into Washington and a mob of Panda watchers are ready to pump me full of vitamins for the big day, probably some time in April or May. More about that later...
...kind of bicycle that is ready to be marketed in about one year. The idea, conceived by Szaro and a Soviet engineer he helped come over to the U.S. years earlier, replaces the inefficient circular motion of the standard bicycle with a horizontal motion, something like a linear pump, and more natural to the motion people use in walking...
...great distress. We try to alleviate it by every method possible. What we do is called selective help. Where areas are absolutely at their worst, we give special help. That's much better than just saying we'll flood the economy with printed money. The moment you pump in bad money it debases the value of good money. Before the end of this year there should be an improvement as companies start to build up their stocks again...
...Soviet plan calls for the construction of either two small pipelines or one single line of high-tensile steel pipe perhaps 5 ft. in diameter. Some 40 large compressors will be required to pump the gas from the wellheads to a terminal in Waidhaus, West Germany. Says Heinz Durr, chairman of AEG-Telefunken, the big West German firm that may supply the compressors: "Even the American experience with the Alaskan pipeline, which is only one-quarter as long, is nothing compared with what we face here...