In marketing, Merck flattened spending in 1993 and didn't pump it up again until 1996.
Indoor-playground chain Pump It Up, for instance, will offer free babysitting so parents can leave the kiddos and shop unimpeded at many of its 150 locations.
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The way these musicians take everything that's stirring about rock and pump it up until it's larger than life, and full of an electrifying creativity that's been missing for a long, long time.
The pump storage hydro scheme is designed to "soak up" excess power generated by wind and wave farms, using it to pump water up to a reservoir.
Okay, so it's not all about deflating your sci-fi balloon, this next story should pump it right back up again.
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The President, as you know, is very concerned about high energy prices, in particular the impact that energy prices have on prices at the gas pump because Americans are struggling to make ends meet and when prices go up at the pump it affects everything they do because of their reliance on cars for transportation to and from work and other places.
In the short run, it allows him to pump up the stockmarket, he can pump up the economy by issuing more money, he can bail out his own supporters.
Stedman, a chemistry professor at the University of Denver, said there are several problems with the alcohol fuel, one being that it messed up the fuel pump in a car he uses.
But the data will likely provide an impetus for China hard landing theorists to pump up their chest and start pounding it like an I-told-you-to-listen-to-me silverback gorilla in the mist.
We know that the clock mechanism soon broke down, and it was up to the eunuchs to pump water manually every time the emperor was passing in front of the statues.
The gas comes up with the oil pump from Prudhoe Bay, but it's been re-injected back into the ground for decades.
America has suffered an especially large rise in petrol prices, because tax makes up a smaller part of the price at the pump than it does in other countries.
Consumer advocate Michael Shames, who runs a gasoline shopping Web site, says pulling up to the gas pump no longer packs the dread that it did a couple of months ago.
Accommodative monetary policy in developed economies and an extended low-rate environment will both pump up demand for gold and reduce the opportunity cost of holding it as an investment, reads the note.
Improving the atmosphere in an existing stadium is obviously different to building it up from scratch and Keirle says one solution for Old Trafford could be to pump noise via microphones around the ground.
Here's hoping that the Ulsan team's fast-charging battery is more viable than others and spreads to just about everything -- we'd love to have EVs and laptops alike that power up in as much time as it takes to fill a traditional car at the pump.
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