They told me that they were not allowed to use the hand pump to get water as it belonged to upper caste people.

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Diageo found creative ways to trim the price, by using local barley and sorghum, by putting the beer in big kegs rather than costly bottles and by inventing a cheap hand-pump to serve it.

ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

The string of measures was a strange mixture of well-meaning steps at social reform, half-baked schemes for quasi-socialist industrial planning, regulation to protect consumers, welfare programs to help the hardest hit, government support for the cartelization of industry, higher wages for some, lower wages for others, on the one hand government pump priming, on the other public economy.

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And Lee is moving more people to Synaptics' new Hong Kong office, where he hopes they can work more hand-in-hand with the big Asian manufacturers that invariably pump out the products.

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If, on the other hand, the oil price goes up, the firm is ready to pump.

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The sticker-shock at the pump is a rude reminder that even though energy independence for the United States is closer at hand than at any other time in the last fifty years, energy is still very much a global commodity.

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On the other hand you may often reflect on why you bus your own tables at McDonalds, or pump your own gas at Exxon.

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Everything is joined by a unique, hand-cut case whose backbone and elevated base hide the custom wiring, the watercooling pump, two solid-state drives and controllers for both fans and lighting.

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