Also suppliers in the Opec group of producing nations are pumping at their highest rate in a quarter century, with not much in the way of spare capacity to make up any shortfalls.

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For some months Saudi Arabia has been pumping oil at its fastest rate in 30 years to make up for Iranian crude lost to American and European sanctions, which officially started on July 1st.

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The researchers made their subjects' jaws throb by pumping a solution into a nearby muscle, then asked them to rate the severity of their discomfort.

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After pumping trillions into the mortgage market since 1998 through the GSEs, the homeownership rate is back to 1998 levels.

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The waning days of the global boom find the U.S. with a weak dollar pumping up prices and discouraging investment here, an unworkable tax system studded with rate increases, and government processes bent on expanding federal power rather than limiting it.

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