There is a fundamental illogic to the notion that an economy can be grown by encouraging consumption.
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The amount of data that can be stored has grown by 400% in the last three years, while the cost for every gigabyte has fallen by 80%.
About 35% of the estimated 4.6 billion bushels of all U.S. corn grown this year will be consumed by the ethanol industry, producing nearly 14 billion gallons of alcohol.
Periods of excess, when inequality has grown, tend to be followed by eras of reform: Roosevelt bust the trusts and shortly afterwards Congress moved towards introducing a federal income tax.
You might think yourself too grown-up to be wowed by shiny, glittery things, but we doubt many will be able to watch NVIDIA's new Glow Ball tech demo without a smidgen of childlike glee.
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And, by the way, this would be a freeze on a federal budget that's grown by a quarter in two years.
The dozen franchises that have opened new stadiums since 2000 (the Marlins will be the 13th next season) have grown revenues by a cumulative billion dollars over that span.
To be a fan of an MLS team or the league itself is be simultaneously appreciative of how much it has grown since it was started in 1996 while also being frustrated by what seems to be an illogical, slavish insistence to define an American version of soccer.
How have tiny computers and the Internet grown to be the driving force in the world economy by century's end?
Having grown up surrounded by computers (his father used to be a software engineer), Dr Soghoian says he slid into computer science without even considering other disciplines.
By defining human capital as an asset that must be grown and protected, investors can begin to ascertain how human capital issues impact overall portfolio risk and the probability of achieving their long-term financial goals.
The positive "surprise" in these figures is largely to be found in the service sector, which is estimated to have grown by 1.3% in the third quarter, after shrinking by 0.1% in the three months before.
Because smart skins are grown by depositing layer upon layer, the base coating can be used as a foundation for adding other ingredients to tailor the material's properties for specific purposes.
He and his team already have grown early-stage valves and patches that could be used some day to repair tissue damaged by heart attack.
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She hopes that health-conscious consumers will be particularly attracted by the kind of rhubarb cropped from December to April which is force-grown indoors in unlit heated sheds.
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the immigrant share of America's labour force has grown from 7% in 1979 to 10% in 1988 and is expected to be nearly 15% by 2005.
Gaffney, Jr. observed in a column distributed by National Review Online on Monday, the urgency with which such deployments must be undertaken has grown as awareness spreads of a heretofore under-appreciated danger: the threat of short-range missiles launched from ships off the U.S. coasts.
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It is every woman's right to be respected, cared for and looked after by man in all stages of her life (be that a father, brother, husband or grown-up son).
But, in the first seven months of this year, payrolls have grown by nearly 100, 000, providing welcome relief to men and women who otherwise would still be out of work.
The game is suitable for anyone aged three or over, but as grown-ups are not exactly gripped by the election, it is hard to accept that kids will be either.
One of the most alarming speculations is that by the year 2010 there will be 40 million AIDS orphans in Africa, most of whom will have grown up with little or no social structure.
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