Word: pumpings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last year was forced to accept ten oil companies as partners in the Trans-Alpine Line-ending forever its dream of monopolizing the Alpine pipelines to squeeze other big oil companies out of Central Europe. In return, it got 20-year commitments from Esso, Shell and British Petroleum to pump 4,000,000 tons of crude oil annually through its Central Europe line...
...breaking horses for local ranchers, quit school after the eleventh grade to wander the rodeo trail. "Lots of times I had to hock my watch to ride." he says. "Once I set out for a rodeo in Sulphur, Okla.. with five gallons of gas from Dad's pump. I didn't have the entry fee, but a woman who owned a dress shop gave me $30 worth of pennies she had collected. I won fourth in bareback and second in bull riding, and paid that woman back with interest...
According to Defendant Eastman, the gadget was there simply to monitor a cellar pump that supplied water to his 18,000 chickens. But whatever the facts, the trial judge did not attempt to probe them; he sent the case straight to the New Hampshire Supreme Court for guidance on a crucial question of law: since New Hampshire is devoid of statutes or court precedents defining the right of privacy, did the Hambergers have a case...
...steel's deal turns out to be excessive, the Government will tighten up on spending, forgo more tax-cutting. But if the steel settlement turns out to be reasonable, the Government will be able to pump billions into the pocketbooks of U.S. consumers-probably by further tax cuts-without risking inflation. The Administration has a new flexibility in economic planning because the success of the '64 tax cut in spurring the economy without inflation has taken much of the burden off federal spending and monetary policy as the two main weapons the President must rely upon in coping...
...wants to create a reservoir about 40 miles north of New York City by building a series of dikes around a natural basin near the Hudson River. It plans to pump water from the river into the reservoir during periods of low electrical demand and then allow it to flow back into the river when demand is high. On its way down, the water would drive large electric generators...