Word: pumps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experience which, according to some friends, was to affect him for the rest of his life. Among several guests in the Stevenson home one night was a military-school student who offered to perform the manual of arms. Excited, young Adlai ran to get a .22-cal. pump rifle, watched wide-eyed while the cadet went through the ritual. When it was over, Adlai took the rifle, began to mimic the performance. The weapon accidentally fired, killing Adlai's 15-year-old cousin, Ruth Mary Merwin...
...because it demonstrates that business has been vigorous enough to generate additional revenue for the Government despite the tax cut-and partly because of it. But the deficit decline disturbs many "activist" economists, who advance the neo-Keynesian argument that if business is to grow vigorously, the Government must pump more money into the economy than it takes...
...brief, Keynes considered purchasing power, or "aggregate demand," to be the most important force in any economy; the best way to maintain high demand, he said, is for the Government to borrow money and pump it into the economy to supplement private investments. Washington has been raising Keynes since New Deal days; in 25 years the budget has been balanced only six times. The anti-Keynesian arguments-notably that the system is bound to lead to Government control of the economy, that it can be inflationary, and that indefinite borrowing is impossible without a day of reckoning sooner or later...
...washed free of its own blood, cooled down to 54° F., and injected with antibiotics to kill any bacteria that might be present. Tubes were inserted in one of the patient's main arteries and one of his large veins; his own heart served as the pump to send his blood into the pig's liver. From there, the blood went back into the patient's vein after being rewarmed along the way to a normal...
Europeans, in fact, have added some touches of their own. Pump hoses are wrapped in tiger stripes, and some Dutch station attendants even dress up in tiger suits. At Rome's Vallelunga auto race track last week, Esso wheeled out a caged circus tiger that stole the show. It has had a German pop singer record a rock 'n' roll song called Tiger in the Tank, with Tiger Rag on the flip side...