The consumption component of the Chinese economy is about half that of the U.S. economy.

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Apple wants users to think about books as just one component of their larger media consumption, including music, movies and TV, all built around the iPad and other iOS devices.

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Personal consumption expenditures, the single largest component of GDP, increased by 2.2 percent at an annual rate in 2012:Q4, as compared with 1.6 percent in the previous quarter.

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Reducing consumption seems intuitively to be an indispensable component of any policy response to climate change.

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Since it is exports that have fuelled the consumption boom, and since electronic goods have been a crucial component of exports, the economy looks increasingly vulnerable.

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The nano does not yet support Bluetooth 4.0 (or any version of the specification), but the standard has been seen as a key component in helping reduce power consumption for such a product, There are also lower power display technologies -- such as Sharp's Memory in Pixel LCD on the forthcoming Meta Watch -- from which Apple has abstained.

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