Modern tools of economics, such as input-output analysis, can help identify impacts and opportunities.
But as input costs rise, the utilities grow more aggressive in seeking efficiency gains.
Operating margin fell to 17.7% at the Golden Arches, as input costs began to put serious pressure on profits.
So we can also use this an interface for games that allows you to use your full body as input.
The process itself requires consultation with a variety of executive branch agencies, as well as input from stakeholders and public comment.
It is being reviewed in a way that allows and has allowed for substantial public comment, as well as input from agencies across the government.
Average sales prices jumped 14.6% as input costs continued to rise.
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Such a deal would provide marketing and purchasing synergies, as well as input from Ghosn, who has proved he can turn around an automaker with Nissan.
Managing and maintaining an optimal harmony among what goes as input to the supply chain, what is made and how much goes as waste is critical to responsible supply chain and to good product stewardship.
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But if the hazard information provided as input is inadequate, estimates of risk will be inaccurate, " said workshop director Abdelkrim Aoudia of ICTP's Earth System Physics section, adding, "Therefore, this workshop will focus specifically on issues that can lead to erroneous estimates of seismic hazard.
These transactions were very complex internally, but externally one can see quite simply that these select few constructed a money machine that took mortgages, a large percentage of which were junk, as input and put out mortgage backed securities that were rated AAA. Plus, these money machines insured the transactions as though the mortgages were top rated (a 2% default rate, as I recall).
Since 1 calorie of beef requires 8 times as much input of grain as a single calorie of bread, Petrela recognizes that rising protein consumption means a rising demand for grains which in turn means a rising demand for global farmland.
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Since the book is a key reason my kids were able to go to the colleges of their choices, the moral seems clear to me: Get as much input from your customers as you can and act on it.
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They wanted a professional club with which they could identify, one that was undeniably attached to Seattle, one that treated them with respect and engaged them as equals rather than viewing them as an input to be managed as part of an overall revenue equation.
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This allows you to hook up all kinds of fun things as an input.
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It is heavily dependent on natural gas prices as an input, and these costs could be surging if current trends hold.
In the fossil fuel industry, both enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and enhanced coal bed methane recovery use compressed CO2 as an input.
As one input into their manufacturing process they need a specific material.
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Even TVs that don't accept the highest resolution as their input can still provide an excellent picture like the SXRD Matt reviewed.
With all the hoopla around the iPhone 3G, the finger has taken center stage as the input device of choice on the go.
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Each node in the Bitcoin network creates a candidate block and then races to solve a difficult mathematical puzzle that takes its block as an input.
Higher product prices have crossed the threshold of Pepsi as it has for Coca-Cola and other consumer staples businesses, as higher input costs have offset top line growth.
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Your output will only be as good as your input.
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The flip side to this increased focus on reducing carbon dioxide emissions is that, industrially at least, the demand for carbon dioxide as an input into processes is increasing.
Jobs, as an input to production, by definition add to the cost of whatever the final good or service in question is, compared to doing the same with fewer or no employees.
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An early version of an iPad app acted as a master controller, and I watched in awe as each input was simply shuffled around on both the app and the various monitors.
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General Mills reported fiscal second-quarter profits that fell short of Wall Street estimates Tuesday, as higher input costs and expenses contributed to pressure on the bottom line for the Minnesota-based snack food company.
This is a major disappointment, for while the Flips lacked some of the features of other portable HD cameras (such as an input jack for an external mic and 1080p resolution) the color quality was much better than most.
The Pro, much like the classic Slingbox, features an analog cable input, as well as an S-Video input.
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