1.   Damage to electric plants and wires have shut off power in many areas, which means people must pump water by hand.

2.   Once the oil companies saw that people would pump their own gas, it was over.

3.   People are pumping money out of Japan in search of higher yields, fueling the stock and bond markets in New York and overseas, several economists here say.

4.   People pumped their fists.

5.   Many people are pumping up underground dance music, a genre that has yet to produce long-term artists.

6.   They make susceptible people pump out too much insulin, which in turn encourages them to put on fat.