Word: pump
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pump billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, we're doing more than warming the planet and scrambling the climate. We're also conducting what climatologist James Hansen has called a "vast uncontrolled experiment." In effect, we're on our way to engineering a world very different from the one we were handed. Belatedly, we're trying to turn off the carbon spigot, hoping that by incrementally reducing the emissions we've spent a couple of centuries pouring into the air we can stop the climate slide before it's too late...
...lose. The new party that's coming in intends to put through programs that will increase the amount of money that the average Japanese [person has], thereby stimulating personal spending. For example, it intends to cut the gasoline tax and eliminate tolls on all roads. They are going to pump money into the Japanese consumer, whereas the LDP's policy of stimulation, as a cynic would say, was to build bridges to nowhere. They'd create these big industrial-development projects, which really haven't worked and haven't turned the economy around...
...using energy - through less wasteful cars and appliances - the overall cost of energy goes down, but we respond by using more of it. In the case of cars, that means driving more. Ultimately our gas bill stays the same, but we spend more time on the road and pump the same amount of greenhouse-gas emissions into the atmosphere. The earth isn't any better off. (See pictures of new ways to boost energy efficiency...
...story that appeared shortly after Jackson's June 25 death. Britain's Sunday Times wrote a piece quoting Rwaramba allegedly giving explosive details about Jackson's drug use. The story cited her attempts to curb his addiction as the reason she was let go. "I had to pump his stomach many times. He always mixed so much of it," the paper quoted Rwaramba as saying. "There was one period that it was so bad that I didn't let the children see him ... He always ate too little and mixed too much." Rwaramba quickly put out a statement disavowing...
...University of Texas School of Law. "But if this is an instance of a powerful retailer trying to protect itself instead of trying to provide a service to the consumer, it has to be seen as a potential winner." So all you moms who splurged on that $300 breast pump a few years ago: start looking for the receipt...