It is predicted that in 2012, Chinese domestic consumption of REs will match domestic production, and this year will see a peak in availability and a demand-supply gap emerging on the world markets.
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The London Interbank Offered Rate, or LIBOR, is a measure of credit availability because a lot of lenders use it as a peg to set their interest rates, and it rose yesterday.
Now the gradual upward spiral in prices and credit availability becomes a rapid downward spiral in prices and credit availability as banks quickly tighten lending standards to avoid even more credit defaults.
Apple is clearly hoping to jump-start a virtuous circle here, in which the availability of a clear path to the television spurs demand for digital content, which spurs demand for Apple TV units.
"As is standard with the release of a new product, we will be releasing early builds of Windows 7 prior to its general availability as a means to gain tester feedback, " a spokesman for Microsoft said, downplaying Gates' statement.
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Availability of a gene test to predict response could speed testing of the drug for less-advanced cases.
On balance, the availability of a patent for software or business methods provides little incentive to developers.
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To sweeten the deal, start-up Waze is announcing the availability of a free navigation application for the iPhone Thursday.
At the same time, the availability of a cheap and relatively green fuel may push up global energy consumption.
The widespread availability of a crowdfunding plug-in also opens the door to fraud.
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The past few years have seen the widespread availability of a large amount of data, thanks largely to the internet.
But keen prices and availability of a wide range of popular toys were even more important in making the site attractive.
Then look at your home-state plan, focusing on just two things: the expense ratio and the availability of a state tax deduction.
Dolby also announced the availability of a development kit to support the use of Dolby Digital Plus in the UltraViolet CFF specification.
The FCC is the gatekeeper of this most precious of resources, and often chooses to condition its availability on a variety of terms.
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CouchDB and MongoDB are essentially single-headed databases, and from that standpoint, availability is a function of how long you can keep the hardware running.
VIST's success has been the availability of a modern, automated assembly line at a factory in Zelenograd, a town about an hour from Moscow.
The system, called Liquidity Builder, will survey several cash equity and options markets and predict the availability of a Pipeline block trade to match that.
This morning, Skype announced the availability of a new Skype for Windows on their company blog, which played up a number of user-friendly accessibility features.
Maybe our parents who escaped war and poverty never expected that later in the journey, we would need emotional availability and a sense of humor as flotation devices.
Job availability was a chief issue in all of the 10 cities on the list--including Nashville, Cleveland and Indianapolis, which ranked No. 9, No. 5 and No. 4, respectively.
Determining which of the latter two categories is ideal for your retirement money depends on your eligibility, availability and a variety of other factors outside the scope of this article.
The recent availability of a 1.8-inch hard drive from Japan's Toshiba with a capacity of 40 gigabytes has fueled intense speculation that a 40-gigabyte iPod may see the light of day soon.
The availability of a new compression format to reduce bandwidth, particularly in mobile networks where spectrum is expensive, paves the way for service providers to launch more video services with the currently available spectrum.
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Other factors contributing to the high increase in the number of Caesarean births included the size of the hospital, the availability of a neo-natal intensive care unit and the number of midwives on duty.
With the launch of the SAFE-branded Galaxy S III, Samsung is announcing the availability of a trade-up program called SAFE2SWITCH which simplifies the transition to Samsung SAFE devices from Samsung or other manufacturers' smartphones.
As the "host organ procurement organization, " LifeQuest was responsible for the quality of the organs it offered when it posted their availability on a national database maintained by the United Network for Organ Sharing.
"The availability of a service like TWC TV on an open platform represents significant milestones for both Time Warner Cable and Roku as well as for the industry overall, " said Anthony Wood, founder and CEO, Roku.
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Pilar Alvarez-Laso, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences, stressed in her opening words that the idea of sustainable development depends on the availability of a knowledge base and the capacity to make use of it.
On the other hand, some on Wall Street worry that availability of a gene test to predict response might limit the market for Iressa and Tarceva to only a small minority of lung cancer patients whose tumors have the gene mutations.
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