They imported several dozen Apaches to pump up the authenticity of the Wild West town.
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%.
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.
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.
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.
But organizers worked hard to pump up any flagging spirits.
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However, just like the use of steroids to pump up athletic performance can lead to disastrous health consequences, excess debt can bulk up economic performance that is not sustainable.
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Most notable was after the internet and tech bubbles burst and investment banks were investigated for providing biased research to pump up stock prices of certain technology companies.
Banks including JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank and UniCredit also tried in vain to pump up interest in the Alliance Boots deal, having already postponed the sale to this week from last.
Score a kill, and you'll earn Bouncer Points, which you can then use in between stages to pump up your character's stats or pick up a new special fighting technique.
Anglian Water has been granted permission to pump up to 17 million litres a day until next March into its Pitsford Reservoir, which supplies around 600, 000 customers in the Northampton area.
Just as promised before, the PadFone Station (the tablet) and the PadFone Station Dock (the keyboard) do seem to pump up the battery by about five-fold and nine-fold max, respectively.
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Counterintuitively, the dollar seemed to have suffered widespread losses on Friday, a day that Japanese currency intervention would appear to pump up demand for the greenback and prop up its value.
Low interest rates and a raft of new regulations are draining revenue, and new loan generation is anemic, forcing banks of all sizes to cut costs in an attempt to pump up profits.
Survivorship bias is most likely to pump up trailing returns "in the smaller, quirkier, more volatile categories, " where a lot of funds "wash out, " says Russel Kinnel, director of mutual-fund research at Morningstar.
Parents who noticed that their children felt bad about themselves tended to pump up the praise when working with them, saying things like, "You're so smart, " or, "You're such a good artist, " researchers found.
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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