The notoriety may have helped pump sales for the group's second album, The Writing's on the Wall, which sold 8 million or so copies.

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Auto makers have long gone to unusual lengths to pump up vehicle sales.

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Conference is just around the corner in early April, by the way, if you are in San Francisco and need to prime the sales pump.

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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.

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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.

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Since most people who pay at the pump don't go into the building, the digital sales system at the pump creates a whole segment of new customers for Coke.

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ExxonMobil says there are already 6 million Speedpass devices in use in the U.S. and that they represent about 18% of sales at the pump.

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In the same way that spreadsheets can instantaneously perform complex sales projections, biomedical researchers in the future will pump in the proteins and other chemicals they want to test into a microchip, and the result will be quickly spit out on a computer display.

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It had a phenomenal year for sales and market share last year and needs exciting new products to pump that momentum.

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Crude-oil costs are a bigger slice of the prices American consumers pay for petrol: lower sales taxes and fuel duties mean swings in oil markets have a bigger effect on pump prices.

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