An engine's heat melts the fine-ground rock, which proceeds to encrust the cooler parts of the mechanism, stopping it from working.

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This lobbying group of course looked after the interests of corporate India, but often as not those were in concert with the interests of enterprise generally and at odds with some of the most backward laws that encrust the Indian marketplace.

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