Predictions of easing gasoline prices are also being driven by views that there could be potential oil supply overhang concerns coming up in the absence of a strong and immediate message by the successor of Saudi King Abdullah, reinforcing the adherence to self-imposed production limits by OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) members.
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As a nation, the UK is still self-sufficient in the production of fresh milk and cream.
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The Midwest would become more self-sufficient in their energy production, an important factor for such an important food-producer.
"Malaysia is self-sufficient in chicken meat production, " the industry executive said, adding that some local broilers use imported chicken meat cuts from China because it is cheaper than domestic equivalents.
In an operational per share basis, the self-professed global leader in copper production earned 74 cents, beating the consensus call by 4 cents.
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One of the blessings of the last few centuries has been that we have adopted economic, political, and social institutions that have channeled the pursuit of self-interest away from predation and toward production.
The combination of oil dependence and production constraints set up a self-sabotaging boom and bust cycle.
To enable this sort of performance, however, the United States is going to have to become self-reliant in another critical technology: the production of advanced, high-performance lithium-ion batteries.
Oddly, in their self-righteous narcissism, the urbanistas seem to forget that driving production from more regulated areas like California or New York to far less controlled areas like Texas or China, may in the end actually increase net greenhouse gas emissions.
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This creates a self-sustaining negative feed back loop as prices fall, produces cut back production, creating more unemployment, reducing demand, which increase deflationary pressures.
Professor Taniuchi says plainly that the idea of simply raising taxes to fund ever-increasing expenditures is self-defeating, sapping initiative of Japanese workers while pushing companies to relocate production and jobs overseas, causing growth and revenues to slow further.
The Iranians now boast that they are self-sufficient in petrol, but this has been achieved only by switching petrochemical plants to petrol production, reducing the country's petrochemical exports and worsening its balance of payments.
More than global corporations or countries, illegal production and trade groups have successfully adopted the much-advocated innovative practices of flattening, self-organizing, adapting and scaling.
Almost a century later, America's continuing domination of cotton production led the Soviet Union, its implacable enemy in the cold war, to look for self-sufficiency in this vital crop.
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