So when the 27-year-old director built a new office for his family companies -- Rathi Transpower and Polybond India, which make rubber components and water-pump parts -- executives got a meal allowance instead of a waitered room.

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Though a great vote-grabber, the policy encourages farmers to pump water up from their tube-wells both day and night.

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My father was a pump operator at the city water plant in Chicago -- many people know that already.

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As many of you -- my father was a pump operator at the city water plant, and neither of my parents had a college degree.

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He has also worked on wave-powered dynamo which he claimed could produce enough energy to pump and collect water for hydroelectric turbine.

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Agoglia hauls a multi-terrain hovercraft, dirt bikes, satellite phones with GPS tracking, a huge generator and a large water pump.

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