Word: pumped
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...competitors to be smoothly hooked up to its telecom services. And he is lifting his charitable profile, announcing he'll pour $10 billion over the next four years into his health- and education-related Fundacion Carso. Business and philanthropy experts alike hope these developments will help prime the pump not only in Mexico but throughout Latin America, where economic competition and charitable giving have abysmal histories. Slim may not have much competition at home, but when it comes to playing Santa Claus, he may finally be poised to take on the likes of Gates and Buffett...
Years passed, during which Fisk's endowment dwindled while the art market went into warp drive. In 2005 the school's president, Hazel O'Leary, came up with an idea that could not only pay to renovate the frayed campus gallery where the Stieglitz Collection has languished but also pump millions of dollars into Fisk's general budget. Why not sell off just a bit of that famous art? But when the school moved to bring Radiator Building to market, it triggered what became a lawsuit by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, N.M., which moved to block...
Americans are paying 12% more at the gas pump then they did just one month ago. At $2.80 a gallon, gas prices are up over 30 cents in just 30 days. Such a rapid rise in prices is sure to cause alarm, yet according to search term data, we aren't fazed. Last week's Web searches for General Motors' Hummer outnumbered Toyota's signature hybrid, the Prius, by more than...
...surprise, then, that when pump prices reached $3.00 per gallon in September 2005 searches for "gas prices" surged to nearly 10 times their normal level. What is surprising is that "gas price" searches do not mirror the rise and fall of of what we pay at the pump. But once a price threshold is crossed, we become immediately -- although temporarily -- concerned...
...Searches for types of vehicles can also be telling, namely information on gas-guzzling SUVs and energy-efficient hybrids. Searches for hybrid vehicles spike in unison with pump prices, but our interest quickly retreats at the first sign of a drop. Searches for SUVs are counterintuitive. When gas prices go up, searches on these vehicles do not go down...