Magnetic tapes can degrade within a decade, while hard disks are expensive and need a constant supply of electricity.
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For example, it is important to ensure that a rural store has a constant supply of soap to sell to local families.
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The first carries compressed air, water, communications and a constant supply of electricity to power lights that are intended to simulate daytime and nighttime.
Despite the hardships, the rigid primogeniture back home ensured a constant supply of Basque labour looking to emigrate, and sheep herding was an attractive trade for those who did not speak English.
Among today's data-storage devices, magnetic tapes can degrade within a decade, while hard disks are expensive and need a constant supply of electricity to hold their information, creating huge need for power for the "data farms" behind cloud computing.
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In the cities of the rich world no woman is expected to wear a garment until it is worn out. (Men, unaccountably, tend to hold on to their clothes for years, but the industry is working on the problem.) The clothes industry would be in a pickle without a constant supply of clients dissatisfied with the contents of their wardrobes.
Given a constant money supply, nominal wage rates fall, but real wage rates rise because total output has gone up.
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So just keeping supply constant will mean more work for Nabors.
Its idle rich gave him lucrative commissions, while the mob provided constant stimulation and a plentiful supply of models.
Let's go back to Econ 101: When you constrict the supply of an item and have constant or increasing demand, price must increase.
Constant devaluations of the ruble, power surges, shortages of sugar and a bad water supply conspired to make this quite an ordeal--"like ten years in purgatory, " he recalls.
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