About 700 yards away, two motorcyclists puttered to a stop and sat watching us.

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Frustrated by the vagaries of the Indian bureaucracy, the barriers to seizing opportunities and often a lack of funds, he was resigned to running a provincial outfit that just puttered along.

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He notes that after he sold his last company, Norand, in 1987, he went to his vacation home in Florida, puttered around on his boat, played some golf, and after two weeks, decided to come back to work.

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An aide puttered around in slippers.

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