Word: pumpings
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Like most German industries at the close of World War II, the sprawling electronics operation of Siemens AG was mostly rubble. When the country began to reindustrialize, Siemens was pump-primed with Marshall Plan money-then German determination took over. The company's aggressive salesmen traveled the world to sell a full range of electronics products. Late last month, Siemens won a $75 million contract to build a nuclear power plant in Argentina-Latin America's first. In the process, it defeated such old nuclear hands as G.E. and Westinghouse...
CONSIDER the human machine in middle age: atrociously maintained, rusty from disuse. None of its parts-the bellows, the tubes, the pump-function as efficiently as they once did. The muscles have degenerated into blancmange. If, in an emergency, the demand for air rises abruptly from the idling requirement of six to eight quarts a minute to 100 quarts or more, the maw gulps like that of a beached carp. The heart throbs about two to three times its customary rate, pumping blood through pipes thickened by sedimentary deposits and grown inelastic with...
...receives visitors, counsels students, answers mail, and reads. He is a Trollope addict?"Trollope tells a story as it should be told, lots of nourishment and no nonsense"?and finds a few minutes' perusal of Jane Austen's easy "rhythm" just right to prime his own writing pump. Like Trollope, he believes that "writing is high craftsmanship, rather than inspiration." His wit and seeming spontaneity generally come only after five revisions...
Priming the Pump. Deming led the U.S. delegation to a two-day Paris session of treasury and central bank officials from ten nations at which the Europeans charted their new course. At a meeting in the elegant privacy of Château de la Muette, home of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the group agreed that the wherewithal to finance world trade will shrink by $4 billion over the next twelve months as a result of the British and U.S. retrenchments. That is precisely the amount by which the reserves of the six Common Market countries rose during...
That prescription was barely a day old when France adopted it last week. Hardly famous for their international cooperation, the French acted chiefly in response to internal pressures-but that will not diminish the result. Concerned over 4½% (and still rising) unemployment, the Gaullist regime took steps to pump $675 million of new spending money into the sluggish French economy. The government raised family allowances (which form a major part of the income of the poor) by 41%, boosted old-age pensions by $20 a year, and granted a 15% cut in personal income tax payments...