Zillow is essentially paying ad networks to pump-up downloads.
Though a great vote-grabber, the policy encourages farmers to pump water up from their tube-wells both day and night.
In order to pump up short-term profits, manufacturers of communications gear loaned money to cash-strapped Internet startups so they could buy switches and routers.
The hazard here is that GM might be tempted to load up the bank with poor-quality loans to shaky dealers in an effort to pump up vehicles sales, says Sean Egan, managing director of Egan-Jones Ratings.
Indoor-playground chain Pump It Up, for instance, will offer free babysitting so parents can leave the kiddos and shop unimpeded at many of its 150 locations.
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Doctors were told that in addition to buying regular disability insurance, their practices could pump--pretax--up to 100% of their excess earnings into a supplemental disability plan offered by the Doctors Benefit Insurance Co.
One of his jobs is to pump up players with pre-game speeches that involve everything from construction hardhats to a nutcracker (for the despised Buckeyes).
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Netflix had also recently announced deals with content providers such as Dinsey-ABCand FilmDistrict to pump up its TV show and feature film library.
Mirroring its peers, Wells REIT depends on an army of salesfolk--39 affiliated brokers and 3, 000 independent reps--whom Wells' executives pump up at annual conferences.
Accommodative monetary policy in developed economies and an extended low-rate environment will both pump up demand for gold and reduce the opportunity cost of holding it as an investment, reads the note.
Wal-Mart may be able to pump up its sales numbers by offering costly discounts, or worse, finding ways to nickel and dime customers with hidden charges.
Rather than pump up the combat in the testosterone-fueled tradition of movies like "Raging Bull, " Ms. Kusama understates it, holds everything to human scale without pulling any punches.
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Just as promised before, the PadFone Station (the tablet) and the PadFone Station Dock (the keyboard) do seem to pump up the battery by about five-fold and nine-fold max, respectively.
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Investors were sickened to learn of the risky bets and 30-1 leverage that Lehman used to pump up profits to pay handsome bonuses to its executives.
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.
Refining-capacity constraints will keep gas prices up at the pump and for heating oil.
Okay, so it's not all about deflating your sci-fi balloon, this next story should pump it right back up again.
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Hence, 42.3% of the pump price - currently averaging 133.19p per litre for petrol - ends up in the government coffers as duty.
Indeed, for all the potential of GPS pinpointing, if consumers are turned off by having advertisers track their every move - as they've recently demonstrated online - geographically targeted advertising may not be the most promising way to pump up the wireless market.
Then when that scene was over, I'd walk over from the piano and go play the organ for another scene and then - a little pump organ I have, and then I'd pick up the electric guitar again and get all my distorted sounds out of that to go with the Indian drums and the things that were happening in the film.
By putting up huge numbers annually while chasing the all-time home run record, Rodriguez would singularly draw extra fans and pump up local TV ratings for the team lucky enough to get him.
The gas comes up with the oil pump from Prudhoe Bay, but it's been re-injected back into the ground for decades.
But it appears to be a catalyst-driven chemical system that releases both heat and gas in sufficient quantities to pump the wings up and down.
Those devices can pump up the financial numbers while disgusting the very customers who need to be delighted if Wal-Mart is to survive.
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