Word: pumps
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...return to the 1970s oil shocks, but it was enough to cause stock markets to tumble and prompt economic leaders to warn of the threat to global economic growth. Right on cue, here comes Saudi Arabia to save the day. Last week the kingdom said it was prepared to pump an extra 1.3 million bbl. a day to bridge the supply gap. Normally, even the hint of a production increase from the world's largest oil producer would quell prices. But this time the markets simply shrugged and kept driving up the price. What went wrong...
...best weapons--hitting Kerry from on high. On Air Force One the day after Kerry spoke in Boston, aides described for the President, who hadn't watched the address, the Democrat's line of attack, including his claim that he would always fund U.S. troops. Afterward, Bush asked to pump up the portion of his stump speech that lampooned Kerry's explanation of his vote against the $87 billion to fund the U.S. occupation of Iraq. "There is nothing complicated about supporting our troops in combat," Bush said at stops in Missouri and Michigan. It was a double barb, attacking...
...that Russian oil giant Yukos will turn off the spigot, last week exceeded a record $43 per bbl. That's not a high in real terms--oil reached nearly $80 per bbl. in inflation-adjusted dollars after the 1979 Iranian revolution. But it's enough to cause concern that pump prices, already up 50¢ per gal. this year, won't drop much soon. Consumers should get a small break in the fall, analysts say, when demand will ease as the summer driving season ends. Paul Horsnell, head of energy research at Barclays Capital in London, thinks the average...
...1960s, when my colleagues and I performed the first successful coronary-artery bypass, at Methodist Hospital in Houston. Some 30 years earlier, as a medical student at Tulane University in New Orleans in 1932, I began work that helped launch the field of cardiovascular surgery. I devised a pump for blood transfusions, which paved the way for open-heart surgery--still two decades away...
...huge enterprise employing hundreds of artists, but studios are also maintained by regional and municipal authorities-and even the state railroad company. The artists work regular hours, are expected to produce a stipulated quota of works, and are sometimes enlisted in "speed-war" contests that test their ability to pump out patriotic art in volume. Depending on seniority and productivity, an artist can rise from the ranks of "merit artist" to "people's artist" or even "hero...