If anything, it was an opportunity for quarterback Eli Manning to practice his pump fakes.
During the week, he bounds around the practice field, pumping up teammates or peppering coaches with questions.
Next month, Mr. Wood will present a paper on online shilling, the practice of pumping up the price of your own merchandise, either yourself or through an intermediary.
General David Petraeus, a principal architect of U.S. counterinsurgency strategy, encouraged the practice of pumping money into the economy of Afghanistan, where the per-capita G.D.P. at the time of the invasion was around a hundred and twenty dollars.
The main concerns, which have quickly spread to Europe from the United States, center on hydraulic fracturing, the practice of pumping large quantities of fluids into wells to loosen the rock formations and enable the gas to flow.
There is an analogy, perhaps, between the military's use of psychoactive drugs and the practice of pumping athletes full of steroids so they can continue to compete despite physical pain; athletes — and also soldiers — whose performance is chemically enhanced in this way may, however, unwittingly sustain more serious injuries as a result.
This, despite the fact that for years it turned a blind eye to the World Bank's practice of pumping money into corrupt Indonesian schemes.
The group met to review best practices for pump operation, repair, and to develop an improvement plan that they would lead in their areas.
2. Feeling Production Now this is where the practice gets pumping with extra power.
Scientists have linked the quakes to the practice of pumping salty wastewater from the state's thousands of oil wells deep underground.
Better known as "fracking," this practice involves pumping a pressurized mixture of water, sand and chemicals into underground rock formations to release oil and natural gas. .
