In the past, the firm has been diligent, even ruthless, in manipulating supply, but lackadaisical in promoting consumption.
But our consumption in this area is hardly the economic stimulant that reform's detractors would suggest.
Yes, people bought more than a year ago, but their consumption came in below expectations in several districts.
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As the Nobel-winning economist Vernon Smith (now of Chapman University) and colleagues found in laboratory experiments, markets in goods for consumption promote cooperation, but markets in assets for speculation and resale produce bubbles and crashes.
"You don't expect the income of the middle class in Africa to be the same as the United States, but it shouldn't be so overstretched that it may lose its meaning, " he adds, noting that the African middle class should define itself not only in relation to the continent but also in relation to international standards of consumption.
Amtrak sells alcohol in most of its dining and lounge cars but permits the consumption of private stock only in sleeper cars.
Mr Cavey calculates that the metals industry accounted for 40% of the growth in electricity consumption in 2001-07, but only 16% of the increase in industrial production.
The implications of rising consumption in the developing world and receding consumption in developed countries does not mean we should ignore over-consumption, but rather that we should not consider it in a silo.
Scottish gas consumption per meter was the highest in Britain, but both Scottish and British consumption fell by 19% between 2005 and 2009.
The solution is not in reducing waste but in making waste generation and consumption a cyclical process, mimicking the way nature does this task.
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But preparing food for consumption in the air presents unique problems -- not least that passengers' taste buds don't function as well at altitude.
This requires investment in high-end servers, but offers major benefits in terms of reduced power consumption, better performance and reduced space requirements.
And this has multiple consequences -- not just in saving money, but it also has consequences in terms of reducing energy consumption, dealing with the environment, importation of foreign oil, et cetera.
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The explosion in collaborative consumption is indeed transformative, but Y Combinator-backed Balanced is a step in the wrong direction precisely because it extends and supports the legacy infrastructure rather than offering a true peer-to-peer payment solution.
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Short sleepers tended to eat less vitamin C, tap water and selenium (found in nuts, meat and shellfish) consumption, but more lutein or zeaxanthin, which are found in green, leafy veggies.
Speaking in Tokyo at the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, he said there had been "some progress" in China's trade relationship with the US, but "domestic consumption still does not play a sufficient role in driving China's economy".
The future energy picture for the U.S. or the planet is not constrained by the availability of supplies, either fossil or non-fossil, but by efficiency gains in generation and consumption.
But consumption has dropped 7% in 2011 because of high and volatile prices.
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This form of consumption represented 12% of Chinese luxury consumption in 2010, but is expected to reach 22% by 2015.
Moreover, the price of oil usually falls in the autumn, after the summer surge in petrol consumption has abated but before winter brings higher demand for heating oil.
Single malts (distinctive products of individual distilleries, rather than mixtures of whiskies from different sources) accounted for only 3.7% of world Scotch consumption in 1995, but this was up from 0.7% in 1975.
But although tea production in America is minuscule, consumption is booming.
Alcohol was thought to be detrimental to a person's health, but studies started to show that alcohol consumption in moderation could have some health benefits, he said.
The recast figures showed a bigger share of services in the economy, but a smaller share of consumption.
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But Mr Poterba says even this suggests an increase in consumption that is small by comparison with the increase in household stockmarket wealth.
Vegetable consumption surged in the 1990s, but has since sharply declined.
Yes, there has been a lot of conspicuous consumption in the past decade, but what has been more striking is the quest for the genuine--the handcrafted object, the locally sourced menu, the Vini del Paradiso experience.
They may also spend more, but this extra consumption would not be caused by changes in housing wealth.
Water footprint measurements are important, he said, but they are not easily understandable in the context of overall consumption.
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This too sounds appealing to some, but lost in this obtuse form of thinking is that all consumption in a real economy results from production first.
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