Word: pumped
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...trouble with the stimulus packages in the U.S. and China is that eventually the efforts of governments to prime the pump run out of money and economic activity has to stand on its own. For China and the U.S. the end of that support means very different things, but the are inextricable connected. China's stimulus package is aimed at driving business activity and consumer spending within the nation's borders. But, if demand for its exports does not return soon, the most critical aspect of its GDP growth will still be in an anemic state. Alternatively...
Newbies in the know, however, can rent equipment from REI, EMS, locally owned camping stores or Lowergear.com which ships via UPS. As for comfort, outdoor stores are catering to first timers by stocking items like queen-size inflatable beds with a pump that plugs into a car's DC outlet. Modern family camping "isn't a canvas tent, mosquito bites, a cot and rain dripping on your head," says Ted Manning, EMS's general merchandise manager. Stores today have everything from self-inflatable pillows ($17-$40) to collapsible marshmallow-roasting sticks...
Prompted by the public's increasing interest in all things environmental, as well as the success of 2005's Academy Award-winning March of the Penguins, Disneynature was created in 2008 to produce one to two nature films a year. The idea was not to pump out dry nature docs, but to re-invent the product once again and introduce it back into the theater. "We're not just bringing TV documentaries to the big screen," says Jean Francois Camilleri, the general manager of Disneynature. "We want to go with the movie screen and tell a story...
...surprised to find out which banks turn out to be stressed. Shares of Goldman Sachs, for instance, are only 40% off where they were a year ago. Citigroup's shares are down 86%. The Administration official also says the Treasury Department may need to pump more money into the banks than it currently has left in its $700 billion financial-rescue fund. But the Treasury Department has no plans to ask for the money immediately...
...Beer you were engaging in a dialogue with Marx, Weber, or Augustine. He had read an enormous amount, and he thought deeply about the big social and political questions throughout his life.”“He would come to class wearing his military outfit and pump his fist, and tell us what to think about,” Mansfield said...