You can pump up margins by paying no more than 30% of gross toward personnel.
They imported several dozen Apaches to pump up the authenticity of the Wild West town.
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But the statement was enough to pump up HAL stock 12% in a day.
That's exactly what Microsoft needs to do to pump up its revenue stream, he suggested.
And investors saw a growing number of companies using fake pro forma numbers to pump up their earnings releases.
By dipping into assets as well, Van Etten was able to pump up research funding by 59%.
For now, Honda has plied car dealers with generous incentives to stoke demand and pump up volumes.
He watched Wall Street pump up Nifty Fifty stocks like Polaroid and Kodak, only to see them plunge spectacularly.
Auto makers have long gone to unusual lengths to pump up vehicle sales.
McCain's advisers tried to pump up expectations for rival Mitt Romney by suggesting that Romney's fundraising might outpace McCain's.
As Japan seeks to pump up its flagging economy, the yen is crumbling.
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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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His goal is to pump up those results by 50% during Planet Hollywood's first full year of operation as a gaming operator.
Court documents show Langley had tried to bribe a law enforcement official posing as a broker willing to pump up Pollution's shares.
Asian markets slumped as global money rushed to pump up Wall Street.
Could we pump up the test scores by leaving these students behind?
Those devices can pump up the financial numbers while disgusting the very customers who need to be delighted if Wal-Mart is to survive.
The specific things that make oil companies successful are in how to prospect for, find, drill for, pump up, refine and sell oil.
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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.
Having returns like this as a starting point would pump up the ending return (2010) by approximately 1% to 10.7% over starting in 1957.
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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 issue: Did executives pump up the company's stock by touting the drug as a blockbuster, even while they knew clinical trials were going poorly?
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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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.
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.
Netflix had also recently announced deals with content providers such as Dinsey-ABCand FilmDistrict to pump up its TV show and feature film library.
There's a hysterical scene where both McAlary and his editor pump up their morphine drips while both at the hospital and another funny bit about the Atkins' diet.
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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But organizers worked hard to pump up any flagging spirits.
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