One resident asking to borrow a generator to handle two sump pumps and a septic pump at her home prompted others to start a generator exchange.

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For energy consumers, such a strategy, if successful, will inevitably mean shortages of energy, and higher costs at the fuel pump, in our home utility bills, at grocery and clothing stores, and in any other good or service whose cost is in any way dependent on the cost of energy or transportation.

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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.

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In one pamphlet aimed at promoting breastfeeding, for example, the CDC encourages women to talk to their employers and demand breastfeeding support (time and a place to pump, for example, or hours that enable the woman to return home to breastfeed).

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From the time tenor Jim Cornelison operatically belts out our national anthem (or Canada's) to the times they pump up the volume to "Chelsea Dagger" by the Fratellis to celebrate a Blackhawk goal, a home game at the United Center is usually loud, usually SRO and usually bigger than Bieber and Beyonce rolled into one.

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He got help from a heat pump stored in a utility closet in his basement and hooked up to a loop of pipes buried underneath his home.

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