Each component of the energy balance net radiation, turbulent heat fluxes, heat transfer into the ice and heat supplied by precipitation is derived separately from the measurements, and the variability throughout the year is evaluated.

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The balance of power between component buyers and component sellers may be about to shift in a fairly radical way over the next 24 months.

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Our national saving, consisting of personal saving, business saving, and government saving, has been inadequate, in part because the government saving component, measured by the budget balance, has been negative rather than positive.

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Worse, banks' balance-sheets are only one component of the credit bust.

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Apple has acknowledged that it has been using its balance sheet to secure long-term component deals.

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But if supply and demand are in close balance (as they were in the oil market), even very small changes in either component can lead to large price shifts.

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