But what government can do is lay the foundation for small businesses to expand and to thrive, for entrepreneurs to open up shop and test out new products, for workers to get the training that they need, and for families to achieve some measure of economic security.

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Rob Gough, one of the first to test out the device at the Spar shop he runs in Barry said he would defy any ban.

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By doing this, rod-makers shrewdly appealed to the way most fishermen road-test a rod: in a fly shop parking lot, where, inevitably, they try to cast as far as they can.

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The repair shop put an engine on a test bed, attached sensors, hooked it to computers, and tried every possible combination of gas and air.

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Highlights include the Air Force Flight Test Center Museum, the food court and gift shop at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center and a "windshield tour" near the flight line where F-16s, KC-135s, F-22s, F-35s, B-1s or C-17s might be visible, said the spokesman.

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Reed said the people behind Belu had looked for inspiration in companies like The Body Shop, which was started by Anita Roddick and does not test its products on animals, and Newman's Own, a company started by screen legend Paul Newman that gives a chunk of its profits from the sale of its food products to charity.

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