When a player is looking for some help on a project, assistance can be provided by friends on the social game or by various advertising and promotional partners.

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That's why the trucking industry is looking for some help from the federal government in the form of infrastructure improvement, tax credits and a well-funded Highway Trust Fund.

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At the time she was looking for some one who could help drive traffic to Mamiverse, which had just launched in July of that year.

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Most of the time the publishers approached us and said, this is what we have to offer and this is what we're looking for -- whether its some development help or some co-marketing -- but you know we would look at that the same way we would look at our strategy behind developing a first party game.

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If they are looking for a crusade, the Bengal Tigers really could use some help.

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" But if you're a farmer, "you're looking for herbal, natural, green or Chinese herbs, some kind of regimen to help your oral health.

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The way George Davison tells it, his company gets some 55, 000 calls a month from inventors around the U.S. looking for help to turn their ideas into marketable products.

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But while big companies can help scale up existing companies, the latest data show some troubling signs for entrepreneurs looking for seed or early-stage funding in green tech.

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