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...Broadcasting chairman Lucie Salhany. "There was food in every conference room. We had pizzas brought in and more deli than you can believe." To that scene was added, in the final days, a cadre of briefcase-toting lawyers who invaded the Fox lot. In the end, Murdoch agreed to pump $500 million into New World in exchange for nonvoting convertible preferred stock and other redeemable securities representing potentially a 20% share of Perelman's company...
...emphasized that he is reforming India with an eye to helping the poor. He said he plans to pump large amounts of money into the lower economic sectors of the population in an attempt to lesson the disparities between India's rich and poor...
Though Mandela may be a natural mass leader, he does not exhibit all the attributes associated with such charismatic figures. Yes, Mandela may plunge into ecstatic crowds at rallies, pump hands, give the clenched-fist A.N.C. salute and dance a few steps of the toyi-toyi. But when he begins to speak, the cheers usually turn into a good-natured but puzzled silence. Not for Mandela the soaring metaphors of Martin Luther King or the rhyming aphorisms of Jesse Jackson; he addresses his audiences in the sober, didactic style of an organic-chemistry professor...
...Submersible well pumps with brass parts may contain high levels of lead, according to a recent report. Because lead can cause birth defects and brain damage in children, the Environmental Protection Agency advises people who use a submersible pump to have their water tested and to consider switching to bottled drinking water until the results are in. About 6 million such pumps are used...
Months, years, even decades may pass. Then an ominous transition occurs. Some cells in the tumor begin secreting chemicals that attract endothelial cells -- the key components of blood vessels. These cells form capillaries that grow into the tumor. They also pump out molecular messengers called growth factors that stimulate the tumor to divide more quickly...