1. But so many investors have lost money in general that it has created an enormous aversion to risk and pumped up premiums in the safest assets. 2. Pumped up the volume. 3. That pumped up revenues, but also squeezed profits and saturated the market. 4. That reduced computer sales, but pumped up profit margins on those sales. 5. TV news is often justly criticized for superficial reporting, for jumping on an attention-grabbing item and pumping it up. 6. Verklin said that as publisher, Carey had done away with advertising inserts, which are a way to pump up ad pages without significantly increasing revenue. |