This German recovery has also been a bit more consumption-led than in the past.

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Certainly I would be willing to sacrifice a bit of power consumption in order to get a bit more speed and more reliable frame rates.

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The BLPC predicts power consumption of bit lines by using replicated bit lines to monitor the frequency of the ring oscillator.

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The head of the Economic Plan-ning Agency, Sakaiya Taichi, predicts that rising profits will boost summer bonuses, which should goose consumption a bit.

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This should have helped because consumption is the bit of the economy that has held up best so far.

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But schadenfreude, however tasty at the time of consumption, consumes a bit of us, too.

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Reduce Consumption, Even a Little Bit .

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That's not the case with the Tesla Model S. It comes not long after the retirement of the Tesla Roadster, a car we thoroughly enjoyed but found a bit too raw, a bit too rough around the edges for general consumption.

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There's no live programming -- just a database of show episodes and movies that you have your choice of either streaming or downloading for later consumption over 3G or WiFi -- which makes it a little bit like using an on-demand service from your cable company.

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