It was possible for the trade routes like the Silk Road to hum with traffic.
With stocks now lean, orders are picking up and factories have started to hum again.
For Wall Street to hum, we need to see risk premiums come in more than 100 basis points.
People can start creating a song in any genre by using their own voice to hum a beat or baseline.
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Archeologists speculate that the weak foundations may have had some acoustic purpose: perhaps the pillars were meant to hum in the wind.
The result is that Fiat's European factories are working at only 75% capacity, when they need to hum at over 80% to make profits.
While concerns abound about the rate of growth in the U.S., economies in other parts of the world continue to hum along quite nicely.
The toughest challenges are always communications and trust, so if you want your virtual team to hum, here are some best practices to keep in mind.
Whether you're escaping to the Bahamas this Christmas or just hanging around the house in Michigan, you'll want to hum Jimmy Buffett tunes in these flip-flops.
While it would be hard to sing the same tune regarding the overall state of the stock market in the U.S. it might be okay to hum along.
The college business is starting to hum at Atlanta-based Aspire Group, which has landed Georgia Tech, Rutgers and Colorado as clients to help sell season and group packages for the 2011 season.
The roar of industry in one of these towns, Tangshan, has quieted to a hum recently.
Tuy Kin no longer admits to knowing Hum Huy, though she mentioned him and the camp commandant, known as Deuch, in a 1986 confession.
Up here, where the traffic is reduced to a hum, you can trace the bends of the River Thames with your fingertips, and the trains on the tracks below resemble collectable Hornby models.
All dressed up in Playskool aero pieces and available in Life Savers colors, the 500e feels like the big-kid toy the Fiat 500 always wanted to be, with an otherworldly electric hum to go with its whimsical aesthetics.
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And the ratio of cool to humdrum was probably about 80 percent hum drum to 20 percent cool.
We did notice, however, that the mic was able to detect the hum from our MacBook Pro's fan.
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The mic was able to detect the hum from our MacBook Pro's fan.
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Yep, crack a beer and start weeding through boxes of old documents, throwing out old papers, and listening to the blissful hum of the shredder for those with confidential information.
We were sitting in the garden listening to the intoxicated hum of late-autumnal wasps, talking quietly and for a long time of Lajos and the children, as well as of Vilma, my dead sister.
Some moonlight in their new venture while holding down a traditional corporate gig, or use larger and longer freelance projects where the work might be ho-hum to balance out a growing portfolio of smaller, more exciting clients.
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Ironically, it starts with the trip to Stevens Point to film interviews with the folks who make MyAssist hum in order to create a customer video.
Perhaps he is hoping for a hoe-down on the Texas-Arkansas state line, with Mr Friedman and Ho-Hum trying to persuade other indies to run next time.
Nationally, Martha Stewart Living's ratings in February dropped to a ho-hum 1.5 (one rating point equals almost 1 million TV households), down from 2.4 two years ago.
Indeed, Chinese megashops are hawking low-rate Android tablets right now for around the same amount, setting a new (low) bar when it comes to pricing on ho hum slates.
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Pretty soon, even robots will have the pleasure of enjoying the touch... the feel of cotton and maybe even hum that jingle to themselves, too.
City-centre offices have spilled across the River Aire to make once derelict industrial land hum again.
The streets are deserted and you hum with the radio to stay engaged.
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But we cannot realize that promise if we allow the hum of our prosperity to lull us into complacency.
In a smaller loop of, say, 4, 000 feet, data can hum along at up to 6 megabits per second, nearing cable modem speeds.
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