It's not good enough to just pump out lusty hardware like the Walkman in order to drive generous profit streams.
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KOR-fx features directionality, unlike most sub-woofers, which just pump out bass indiscriminately.
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Google's Webmaster guidelines ban buying links just to pump search rankings.
Congress primed the rural-welfare pump just before it won the 2009 polls, so it's now convinced it has to keep courting the rural voter.
On the economy, Bush's program of granting incentives to high-income brackets to drive investment and boost demand and job growth might just succeed in priming the pump.
But even those who want to sell E85 face problems just getting it to the pump, because there isn't a distribution system in place for ethanol like there is for regular gasoline.
Now, for the last few months, gas prices have just been killing folks at the pump.
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Just look at the nearest gas pump to get that message loud and clear.
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One group just hired a retired diplomat to pump for European relocations.
The speakers also sport an RCA connector around back just in case you want to pump audio from, let's say, more traditional sources.
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Panasonic also announced their 25GB and 50GB 2x discs which will hit the shelves starting April 28 just in time to prime the pump a bit.
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Mr. YERGIN: Ten years ago the thought that would happen in a Chinese oil market could possibly have had an impact on what motorists in America pay at the gasoline pump would have seemed just unrealistic.
However, just like the use of steroids to pump up athletic performance can lead to disastrous health consequences, excess debt can bulk up economic performance that is not sustainable.
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Premier Oil is just one of the companies about to pump oil out of the South Atlantic and there could be huge opportunities for service industries based in Argentina, just 500 miles (800km) away.
Lucent and Nortel are able to pump 10 trillion bits a second through just one fiber wire over short distances.
The battle highlights another Twitter trend: celebrities using their accounts to pump up charities and causes, not just their own fame.
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But lofty prices don't just loom in the grocery aisle and at the gas pump.
Rising oil prices push up the rate of consumer-price inflation not just because people are paying more for petrol at the pump, but because companies must pay more to make and transport the goods they sell.
If the price of crude continues to rise, investing in oil firms might just be the best way to offset those high prices at the pump.
Visually and conceptually it's an elegant strategy, for these crystal closets suggest not just the glass slipper of Cinderella (the show includes a glass pump from 2009 by Maison Martin Margiela) but also the phone booth in which Clark Kent changes into Superman.
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And at this level, China works if anything in the other direction, because thanks to its low-cost labour force it can pump out goods of all kinds a lot more cheaply than just about anyone else (intriguingly, it even has the market for sex aids sewn up).
In a neighbourhood just north of the Union Carbide plant, we found people drawing groundwater from a pump.
Just think, ATSC uses a 15 year old modulation technology and still manages to pump almost 20 Mbps across one channel.
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Sandy caused the price of gasoline futures to climb 10 cents to 15 cents a gallon, and a similar increase could unfold at the pump, Mr. Daco said, adding that any price spike would last just days.
Just a few miles away stand the new floodlights, barbed-wire fences and gleaming smokestacks of Pump Station No. 2, a fortified multimillion-dollar compound that straddles the pipeline.
However, just the anticipation of additional quantitative easing and still lower long-term interest rates has already potentially begun to pump up the next bubbles, as investors have moved out the risk curve in an effort to find higher rates of return.
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