Word: pumps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Middleport, N.Y., a small community northeast of Buffalo, elementary schoolchildren huddle over their notebooks, just 400 yards from a pesticide factory operated by the FMC Corp. A month ago a faulty pump at the neighboring plant spewed out methyl isocyanate gas, the same substance that was stored at Bhopal, India, where more than 2,500 people died last week. Firemen evacuated the 600 youngsters from the school, and 30 of them were treated for eye irritations...
...from both parties have put toxic-waste cleanup at the top of a long list of demands. New York Governor Mario Cuomo, who reports a surplus of $207 million, is designing a broad tax-reform plan that will include income tax reductions. In California, Governor George Deukmejian plans to pump money into education, highway construction and environmental projects. Says William Hamm, an analyst for California's legislature: "It's difficult to build reserves when times are bad, but it's hard to justify them to the public when they get too large...
...Mondale controversy began during last spring's Democratic primaries. Colorado Senator Gary Hart, Mondale's closest rival for the nomination, accused his opponent of using "delegate committees" to pump money illegally into his campaign. The 130 groups, organized by local supporters seeking to become convention delegates, claimed that they were independent of the Mondale organization and thus exempt both from federal limits on national campaign contributions and from the candidate's own pledge to reject money from Political Action Committees. Hart's success in turning the tactic into a campaign issue forced Mondale to disband...
Schroeder's high spirits may dim somewhat, physicians warn, as the hospital staff begins to treat him more like a "usual patient" and less like a celebrity. He will have to come to grips psychologically with being permanently tied to an air-pump system, in much the way that paraplegics learn to accept their wheelchairs. To date, Schroeder's good humor has been strained only once, when he took part in a series of experiments last Monday. Doctors first injected him with Isuprel, Neo-Synephrine and Nitroprusside, three drugs frequently used to treat shock or high blood pressure...
...result of the film. "During summer tours actors were pumping on the pump in Harvard Yard," which Sanks said piqued tourist interest. He added that the pump outside Hollis Hall, is a replica of a real pump which students blew up, as a practical joke, sometime in the 1920s...