Buildings are routinely over-air conditioned in the summer, lights are left on at night, computers hum all weekend long.
When restrictive foreign exchange laws held up the completion of New Delhi's first modern hotel that was fully air-conditioned in 1965, he secured a loan from the U.S. Ex-Im Bank.
As a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, he studied multiple sclerosis, a genetically conditioned disease in which the immune system mistakes nerve tissue for a foreign invader and systematically destroys it.
Yet this has not presented a problem until recently, as supercomputers came out of national laboratory blockhouses, into massive air-conditioned buildings in corporate headquarters, later onto millions of desktops, and now into millions more pockets in mobile devices.
The duo traveled the country in a non-air-conditioned pickup truck in sweltering heat doing interior jobs.
"I'm loving it, " said Ms. Nawaz, a 39-year-old mother of three, as she was driven in an air-conditioned SUV between appearances in Lahore.
The placebo effect could thus be attributed to a lifetime of being conditioned to believe in medicine.
Gareth and Frazer, I believe the French clubs and the national team have done so well this season because they have rested and conditioned their players in better fashion than their competitors.
These people are sitting in air-conditioned offices, making policy for soldiers who are in the field.
They're urged to drink plenty of water, reschedule strenuous activities, stay in air-conditioned rooms, stay out of the sun and check in on relatives and neighbors.
She washed and conditioned it and threw in a free deep-conditioning treatment.
True packaging innovation is not easy to come by, especially when consumers, for hundreds of years, have been conditioned to view quality in a certain set way.
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This shift to smaller-scaled cities, as Michigan State's Zachary Neal points out, has been conditioned by massive improvements in telecommunications and transportation infrastructure throughout the urban world.
Some are saying that the heat wave sweeping across the U.S. is driving people into cool, air-conditioned theaters, and in a poll posted yesterday, 59% of readers voted that the heat does, in fact, make them more likely to go to the theater.
During a visit on Thursday, a tiger Mr. Ali identified as Sandra was sleeping in an air-conditioned shed, just as Mr. Ali treated visitors to Coca-Colas in a stuffy room, complaining of frequent power outages.
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All these firms and managers operated conditioned by the economic context in which they operated.
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Chairs are placed around a big television so shoppers can watch football matches in air-conditioned comfort.
These new rich go out to restaurants, drive cars and buy the latest fashions in air-conditioned malls.
Residents in Boston can cool off in parks with water spray features or in air-conditioned community centers across the city.
But, the media says as you stated, he isnt perspiring enough for the pundits taste in the air conditioned booth.
It's a world away from carefully planned Asian cities like Singapore -- which makes it perfectly suited for visitors who don't need their lives hermetically sealed in air-conditioned shininess.
When asked about his prior experience in government, and its relation to his current work with Jaipur Foot, Mehta explained that his tenure in public service conditioned him to be accountable.
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There has been a slight fall in the number who reckon they are at either the very top or the very bottom of the pile, consistent with the move to working behind desks and in air-conditioned places.
Developed economies are built on easy access to cheap energy, importing goods that are transported from around the world, with consumers driving many miles to work in air-conditioned offices and then flying off to sunny climes for their annual holidays.
No matter how we argue in comfortable air conditioned lecture halls about global warming and climate change, we will still be able to fry eggs on the bleachers while teenagers eager to make the grade as college football players have two-a-day summer work outs.
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At Idrees Ahmed's farm on the outskirts of Lahore, Sandy is kept in an air-conditioned den.
"People have been conditioned to think products are priced in this range, " says Glass.
The water itself is kept at a comfortable 68F (20C), in an air-conditioned room.
Our outlook for 2013 remains that of healthy growth although it is conditioned upon the state of volatility in the U.S. and Europe.
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