Word: pump
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stake in the Philadelphia company, the nation's fourth largest cable operator, with 4.3 million subscribers. Gates and Roberts intend to provide what the other cable guys promised years ago and so far have been unable to deliver: a new set of digital services and a bigger pipeline to pump it through. For viewers that means more channels, better picture and sound, onscreen interactive TV guides and high-speed cable modems that can process instant access to the Internet via cable wires...
...secret of Midwest's success is niche marketing: customer-first service to business travelers from underserved locations in the Midwest, plus nonstop flights to major cities elsewhere. For both, customers pay extra to be pampered. Those premium fares in turn pump up Midwest's revenue per passenger mile, or yield. Midwest's 24 DC-9s feature leather seats set two by two with no center seats. Dealing with a third fewer seats than standard passenger planes have, flight staff can give more individual attention. Besides, says Bob Bell, president of the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce, "they have hot, freshly...
...Dianne Feinstein home page, which pops up as soon as you type her name into any Web search engine (I used HotBot). There I discovered her date of birth and the names of her husband, daughter, stepdaughters and granddaughter. That's more than enough information to prime the pump at a commercial database service. I went to KnowX, one of the most comprehensive sources of public information...
When I had an operation several years ago, I asked my surgeon to start giving me pain killers while I was still in surgery, since I had read that this procedure would help curb postoperative pain. Not only did he do so, but he also gave me a morphine pump so I could administer my own pain medication. But most important, I was controlling a part of my recuperation. I didn't end up a drug addict, and was out of the hospital sooner than expected. LISA GONZALEZ Los Osos, Calif...
...years since, evidence linking dopamine to drugs has mounted. Amphetamines stimulate dopamine-producing cells to pump out more of the chemical. Cocaine keeps dopamine levels high by inhibiting the activity of a transporter molecule that would ordinarily ferry dopamine back into the cells that produce it. Nicotine, heroin and alcohol trigger a complex chemical cascade that raises dopamine levels. And a still unknown chemical in cigarette smoke, a group led by Brookhaven chemist Joanna Fowler reported last year, may extend the activity of dopamine by blocking a mopping-up enzyme, called MAO B, that would otherwise destroy...