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Last week, vacuum-pump maker Edwards Group said it wouldn't proceed with its IPO because of market uncertainty.
Russia's Euroset Postpones IPO Margot Patrick 2011
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The one I think will be cool is the Remote Control Wallcrawler Spider-Man that uses vacuum-pump technology to let the wall crawler climb the walls.
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On Wednesday, Alcatel said it will sell its vacuum-pump business to German firm Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology AG for € 200 million.
Alcatel-Lucent Returns to Profit Ruth Bender 2010
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This fall, Spider-Man will scale bedroom and family room walls everywhere with the REMOTE CONTROL WALLCRAWLER, a remote controlled toy Spider-Man with amazing motorized vacuum-pump technology that allows Spidey to literally crawl up and down walls!
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The remote-controlled Spider-Man toy, which incorporates vacuum-pump technology, actually crawls ups and down walls.
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Resealing the bottle with a vacuum-pump cork can help.
Ask Tip Sheet 2007
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On the Thursday after Caspar Harvey's lunch I mentioned the sick filly to my grandmother and found her one step ahead of the facts; no real surprise, she read newspapers at vacuum-pump speed and from her own long experience at writing them, understood all the inferences they left out.
Second Wind Francis, Dick 1999
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The balance had to be drawn off with a little vacuum-pump; and Thyrsis would watch the tiny jets as they sprayed upon the glass bulb.
Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923
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On this same floor is the vacuum-pump room with a glass-blowers 'room adjoining, both of them historic by reason of the strenuous work done on incandescent lamps and X-ray tubes within their walls.
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On this same floor is the vacuum-pump room with a glass-blowers 'room adjoining, both of them historic by reason of the strenuous work done on incandescent lamps and X-ray tubes within their walls.
Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905
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