Word: pumps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marietta Corp., with headquarters in Bethesda, Md. Army officials familiar with the program explained that the most recent test, on July 27, was botched because of improperly placed shims, or washers, in the hot-thrust section of the missile. Glitches that have caused other failures include a faulty hydraulic pump and a misplaced wire that led to a short circuit. Officials of Martin Marietta declined to respond to Wickham's blast...
...bankers in the U.S. and abroad. On the other side was an unusual left-right coalition that included religious and environmental groups as well as Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader and conservative Congressmen like Jack Kemp. At issue was a plan, already passed by the Senate, for the U.S. to pump an additional $8.1 billion into the International Monetary Fund to help the organization bail out indebted developing countries...
...hours after the disease was confirmed). After completing their two years, EIS graduates are given a prized emblem of their craft: a key chain with a tiny metal keg of Watney's Red Barrel Beer, served at the John Snow Pub on the site of the infamous water pump in London...
...Lewis defies gravity by continuing to run almost straight off into the air, pedaling furiously for balance, not unlike Wile E. Coyote going off a cliff in a Road Runner cartoon. "It's my best attribute," he says. "In basketball I could hang up there and triple pump." As a sprinter, he also has uncanny staying power. "Everybody," he says, "decelerates from about 60 meters to the finish line-everybody." But Lewis, relaxed and controlled, decelerates least and inexorably pulls ahead...
...than $1 billion in loans to Brazil because it has failed to take steps needed to narrow its balance of payments deficit. Said De Vries: "One of the critical financial issues facing governments remains international debt." He urged cooperation by banks, governments and multinational agencies like the IMF to pump cash into nations that cannot raise enough through exports to repay their borrowings...