Word: pump
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both elms, one near the pump in the Yard's center and the other in front of Holworthy Hall, were about 80 years old, according to Bernard K. Keohan, manager of grounds in the Facilities Maintenance Department...
...afford. Yeltsin insists he does not want to serve a second five-year term and will devote all his energy to keeping the reforms on course. But as tensions build across Russia over unpaid wages and benefits, the government has had to water down its tough fiscal policy and pump more money into circulation. Gaidar expects the amount of cash coming off government presses to increase fivefold by August, much of it in new 1,000- and 5,000-ruble notes. To sweeten the public mood on a visit to Siberia last month, Yeltsin ordered that a second plane accompany...
...Americans that the deficit doesn't matter all that much and may even be useful. Some of them think that a mere $200 billion in federal red ink has only a negligible negative effect on an expanding $4.9 trillion economy. Others argue that much of the deficit has positive, pump-priming effects and promotes growth and higher levels of employment. As Robert Eisner, an economist at Northwestern University, wrote in 1986, "The federal debt, however frequently viewed as a burden to the government or to future taxpayers, is wealth to those who own it . . . The holders of those deficit-financing...
...went into the basement and saw a 2000-gallon water drum that Jim had made out of copper. Water heats in the solar panels up on the roof, and flows down to this thermal bank. An industrial computer listens to thermometers throughout the house and controls a pump which sends hot water to cool places. The water flows through a rubber tube under the strips of metal that Jim called "radiant." The water warms the radiant, and the radiant warms the room...
...prosperous Koreatown district, five miles north of the initial flash point, were ready for action. In the absence of effective police protection, the merchants resorted to vigilante tactics. At a large mall featuring a food outlet, a pharmacy and a liquor store with Korean- language signs, men with pump shotguns and high-powered pistols defended their businesses. A barricade of shopping carts was arranged in the parking lot, which was patrolled by armed Koreans in a four-wheel vehicle. As a pair of looters approached the mall, the guards fired 12-gauge rounds into the air to chase them away...