It amounts to media for an ADD (attention deficit disorder) world: When users commune, they consume--and Yahoo cashes in.
Foods likely to require only a best-before date - meaning they may lose quality but are still safe to consume - include biscuits, jams, pickles, crisps and tinned foods.
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And China has also acknowledged that it needs to transition to a more balanced growth strategy internally where they're focusing on their enormous domestic market and giving their people the opportunity to buy goods and services and consume -- all of which will promote their growth, but also will reduce some of the imbalances around the world.
While that figure won't send your electric meter into Whirling Dervish mode, the CEO of Toshiba says that at sizes beyond 30-inches, OLEDs consume 2 - 3 times more juice than LCDs.
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One city official just warned that if nothing is done, pension costs for non-uniformed city workers would consume one-third of the city budget within 20 years.
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But it's incumbent upon me to find a way to consume less -- and, more importantly, let it consume less of me.
The high-savings economies, China, Japan, Germany, would have to spend and consume more - to boost global demand, create a market for the goods and services of the UK, US and so on, and help the indebted economies reduce their debts in a less painful way.
Along with interest on the debt itself, those items consume two-thirds of outlays.
Anyway, founders Kathryn Jones and Joey Brenneman can certainly claim to be at the forefront of an evolution in how audiences consume performing-arts content.
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In addition to dual persona support for Android devices, the Telefonica Cloud Computing catalog helps companies more effectively manage their databases, virtual desktops (PCs) and applications by offering easy to consume cloud-based services.
According to our customers and most analysts, private data centres are using as little as 20 per cent of their server capacity, but even at idle these servers consume 60-70 per cent of their power.
The re-charger will consume 50% less stand-by energy than today's models, the GSM Association (GSMA), an umbrella group for the industry, said.
Today, creative minds are at work developing electronic systems to track and display the energy use of institutional and individual consumers in ways that could make those users much more conscious both about how much energy they consume and about precisely what they could do to cost-effectively consume less.
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Those states consume about one-third of Gazprom's output, but provide over 70% of its revenue.
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Health spending will consume fully one-third of the budget in 2020 with no cost containment in sight.
We then either consume our after-tax income, or we save and invest it.
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Conversely, in the winter, cows consume more fiber-rich, dry matter, hence richer milk.
If we consume our after-tax income, the government largely leaves us alone.
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Most health economists agree that the tax advantage leads workers to purchase inefficiently generous insurance plans, and therefore to over-consume medical care.
If the community did not over-consume the grass and kept it fertilized and fresh, then it was a useful resource for generations.
But allowing it to consume our well-being and attention acts as a distraction and can cause anxiety or stress especially in the workplace.
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Insurance overhead and billing costs consume over one-third of spending.
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It is moving from all-you-can-consume data to tiered pricing.
With video expected to consume over two-thirds of global mobile bandwidth by 2015, and as time spent on Android and iOS apps explodes, we are excited to extend Opera's solutions for operators.
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And yet even with all this growth, people in China still, on average, consume only one-third as much milk and meat as people in wealthy countries such as Australia, America and Britain.
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In essence, Patch has added a social layer on top of its 800-plus community websites, allowing users to form groups and consume content via interest-specific feeds.
However, Indians currently consume roughly 15 times less energy per capita than Americans--and Chinese consume seven times less.
According to the World Policy Institute, coal-and-oil-fired power plants consume roughly twice the water than that of gas-fired facilities while nuclear generation needs three times that of natural gas.
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Typical laser transmitters now consume 100s of femto-Joules to several pico-Joules of energy per bit.
The International Energy Agency forecasts that the world will consume 28 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2030, nearly twice the current level of consumption.
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