Word: pump
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...string tied to the middle finger of his left hand was connected to a clip on the tubes running from two cylinders labeled CARBON MONOXIDE. The body was gaunt, the skin yellow-green. For the past few months, Mansur had been too sick to drive and carried a morphine pump around with him to combat the pain. "He was in hell," says longtime friend Donna Cady. "He would cry on the phone." She adds, "I know that when he put that mask on his face he had his finger sticking up in the air to say screw...
...idea, instead, was to pump in the gas and create enough chaos to distract anyone intent on either firing back or orchestrating a mass suicide. Perhaps those who were wavering would come...
...writing a book on how numbers are manipulated. The American Cancer Society has said 1 in 8 or 9 U.S. women will develop breast cancer, though the frightening statistic is based on women having an unrealistically long life-span. Environmental organizations tend to present the most alarming scenarios to pump up the threat of global warming. Hard-line politicians and gun lobbyists frequently cite figures creating the impression that the country is in the midst of an unprecedented crime wave, and yet homicides and other crimes seem to be declining, according to law-enforcement agencies...
...bottom, government aid can only prime the pump; to get things going effectively will take private money. Only Western business can supply the massive funds Russia needs. Over the long term, says Michael Mandelbaum, professor of American foreign policy at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, "the most important economic contribution the West can make is not assistance at all but access to Western markets." That means trade, which will not flow unless Russia reforms its tax and legal codes enough to assure foreign businessmen they can make, keep and repatriate profits...
...move that may put the onus on other schools to follow suit, Stanford University last week announced an ambitious plan that would increase participation by female athletes and pump a million extra dollars a year into its women's sports teams...