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Hitchhike

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Hitchhike
To rely upon a foreign company or industry for one's own development. For example, a company may hitchhike if it does not produce any of its own products but instead sells those made in other countries. Hitchhiking is a model used in the context of international development.


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About 100 other Newcastle University students and thousands of UK students will take part in the hitchhike to raise money for Link Community Development, an organization which assists primary schools in sub-Saharan Africa.
Hooking up with a man named Ken-Adi that he met in a laundromat, Richard and his new friend decide to hitchhike to San Francisco on a trip that takes on the qualities of a spiritual quest.
Bromsgrove's P-P-P-Pick Up A Penguin outfit raised more than pounds 500 through sponsorship and managed to hitchhike back to Birmingham in a camper van.
 
 
 
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