Word: pumps
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Preservation Librarian Willis C. Meredith said that "for some unknown reason, the system that supposedly controls the temperature and humidity started to pump steam into the stacks...
...bring heavy winter rains to Peruvian deserts and warm weather to the U.S. West Coast. The two systems make up the extremes of a giant meteorological system called the Southern Oscillation that links the ocean and atmosphere in the Pacific. Normally the system functions as a giant heat pump, distributing energy from the equator to the higher latitudes through storms brewed over the warm western Pacific. In conjunction with the oceans, these climatic patterns affect much of the world's weather, ranging from the monsoon season in southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent to rainfall in South America and Africa...
...Committee, states flatly, "Dukakis can still win." As evidence that 10-point swings in the last weeks of a campaign can happen, he points to the 1980 election: as late as Oct. 20, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were even, but Reagan won by 9.7 points. Wirthlin, perhaps to pump up the G.O.P. troops, puts Dukakis' chances of bringing off a similar turnabout as 1 in 3; more cold-eyed analysts think those odds are overly generous...
...Iraq war, which ended with an Aug. 20 cease-fire. During the conflict, Iraq desperately needed oil revenues to fuel its war machine. As a result, the country exceeded its OPEC production quota of 1.54 million bbl. a day. Now that the fighting has ended, Iraq will have enough pumping capacity to increase its production even more, from a current level of 2.7 million bbl. a day to about 3.5 million bbl. a day within the next 18 months. With 100 billion bbl. of reserves, Iraq ranks second only to Saudi Arabia among the world's producers. By contrast, Iran...
...United Arab Emirates was the next to flout its production quotas. Long dissatisfied with its limit of 948,000 bbl. per day, the U.A.E. announced last August that it would pump 1.5 million bbl., and now produces nearly 2 million. In response, Kuwait raised its daily output from 1 million to 1.6 million...