Mr. GORDON YANCY: You've got that whirr, whirr, whirr, that shh, shh, shh, shh.

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With the right monetary, fiscal and regulatory tools, the growth machine will eventually whirr into life.

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In a world in which our electricity is delivered without the whirr of a wind turbine, we need to be more creative about getting consumers to pay attention to energy use.

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His curious, competitive brain is plainly beginning to whirr.

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The transcript of the December 12 Fed meeting is a whirr of mind-numbing statistics and detailed reports of economic conditions in each of the districts, interrupted by questions, answers, and back-and-forth discussion.

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Comparing the grosses against those of other, similar pictures in the same time-span, the studio computers whirr all weekend to produce the best possible projection, come Monday morning, of the film's ultimate potential.

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This noise consisted mainly of the high-pitched whirr of the CPU fan, but it was barely noticeable -- to the point where if you got distracted, you'd have to re-focus your concentration just to make out the sound.

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Alan Hald, another Tempe-based entrepreneur and co-chairman of the Arizona Partnership for the New Economy, points out that Phoenix lacks the venture capital that brings the whirr to other high-tech hubs, such as Austin, Los Angeles and New York.

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