He might test a range of incentives on food servers to determine how best to motivate customer drink orders without driving the servers to be overly pushy, or evaluate which of several potential incentives might make first-time visitors down on their luck more likely to return.

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In Delaware, many residents of beach towns heeded mandatory evacuation orders and a driving ban, and hunkered down at shelters, hotels, and friends' houses.

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This competitive advantage is resulting in a surge in locomotive orders for GE, driving growth for the company.

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Mr Sharaa even flew on an official visit to Beirut, rather than driving unannounced across the border to issue orders as Syrian officials usually do.

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Across the country in California, state lawmakers are considering measures that would expand the categories of high-risk people who cannot legally purchase or possess firearms -- including repeat drug and drunk driving offenders and people who violate domestic violence restraining orders.

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Big global retailers were unsympathetic, showing their own greater knowledge of Chinese manufacturing by driving ever tougher bargains with small producers that desperately needed orders.

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Now the company looks to be taking the next step on the long road to availability, with it accepting pre-orders for the car, which apparently now boasts a range of 300 MPG in typical driving conditions.

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