Word: pump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year Rostker promises a new "media blitz" to pump up the permanent registration program he will launch in Januray. "Things have gone smoothly: we have come in at below our cost estimate (about $2 per person). We are certainly better prepared militarily," concludes Rostker...
...before he calls the Pump Room for reservations, Alevizos will have to get accustomed to pitching relief. "I only had one start this year, and I prefer starting," he said. "But I think I'd have a better chance to make it big as a reliever. I don't have the strongest arm in the world, and when I start I often get tired after six, seven innings...
...models as "the American way to beat the pump" will be Chairman Lee A. Iacocca. With a savvy and pound-on-the-fender style learned during 34 years in the auto business, he hopes to sell every one of the 600,000 K-cars that the company can produce this model year. So far, the public's response is good. Even before the cars have moved into dealer showrooms, Chrysler has sold 45,000 to fleet buyers like Xerox and AT&T and another 45,000 to dealers and individuals...
...region's state governments have made creative use of economic sweeteners. Lowell, Mass., founded in 1826 as one of the U.S.'s earliest planned industrial communities, slipped into business decline when the textile industry moved south after World War II. But Lowell decided to prime its own pump. It sold urban-renewal land to new companies for 25? per sq. ft.; then it lent them money at low rates to build new plants. Wang Laboratories Inc., one of the UJS.'s leading manufacturers of word processors, received a $5 million low-interest loan from the federal Department...
Instead the tribunal concluded that during the years 1975-78, when Nigerian crude was not selling well because of a short-lived world oil glut, the three oil companies, which pump approximately 80% of Nigeria's normal production of some 2 million bbl. daily, had cut back production, at the government's request, to an average of about 1.7 million bbl. a day. Traditionally, the companies had been splitting their production on a 45%-55% basis with the government, for daily liftings of about 1 million bbl. of crude. In order to stay at that level, the companies...