Word: pump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Canadian research group last week reported it could fully regulate blood sugar levels in diabetic patients with the help of an improved version of a small pump now being used at the Medical School...
...Albisser, director of biomedical research at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, told scientists last week at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science that a lighter and fully automated pump could normalize blood sugar levels at all times of the day by continuously injecting small doses of insulin into a large vein...
Chevalier, however, fears that any petroleum price relief may well be temporary. He agrees with reports by the CIA and others that oil output in the Soviet Union, the world's largest producer, is peaking. Until now, the Soviets, who pump more than 11 million bbl. per day, have been able to satisfy their own needs and those of their Communist allies. But the antiquated condition of Soviet drilling equipment, a situation that has been made worse by the U.S. embargo on high-technology exports to the Soviet Union, has delayed the development of new oil deposits...
...will also rise by $5 billion, to perhaps as high as $100 billion. Higher crude prices will quicken the pace of inflation in all Western countries. Washington experts predicted that in the U.S. the OPEC decision would boost the cost of gasoline at the pump by 4.70 per gal. and the price of heating oil by the same amount...
...OPEC decisions. Much more important is the state of world petroleum markets, which are currently afloat in oil. Worldwide demand for the black gold was off by about 2 million bbl. a day in 1980. Some production has resumed in Iran and Iraq, and the Saudis are continuing to pump about 2 million bbl. a day extra to make up for the shortfall caused by the Iranian revolution and by the destruction resulting from the Persian Gulf war. This has permitted oil companies and major petroleum-importing countries to maintain large reserves as a cushion against future price increases...