This German recovery has also been a bit more consumption-led than in the past.
Government investment is taking the economy away from a consumption-led growth model, the only sustainable way forward.
It also encourages responsible meat consumption -and this, from two former vegetarians that serve as the magazine's editors.
All three of its legs--exports, investment and consumption--have been slowing in recent months.
If a consumption-based tax reform like this had been passed in 2000, North Carolina would be an entirely different place.
The short-term tactics are losing their effectiveness, and this means the transition to a consumption-based economy will be especially difficult.
He believes there will soon be a shift to consumption-led growth, something he has been predicting for quite a while.
We have shifted from a consumption-driven economy to a more outward-facing one.
In place of the old taxes, the reform calls for a new consumption-based tax system, largely via expanding and slightly increasing the state sales tax.
Not because the information is bad, although it might very well be skewed, but once it is released for our consumption-what do we do with it?
It accounts for 80% of the power produced in the state and one-third of the state's consumption--all with no carbon dioxide and at a low price.
Weak consumption has been a drag on consumer stocks, but as the economy starts to go up over the next 12 months, consumption-related stocks will recover.
On China, Soros says the country has to change its economic model from depending on export-led growth to consumption-led growth, and that that transition is already underway.
Inflation, as measured by the core personal-consumption-expenditure deflator (excluding food and energy) fell to 0.7% at an annual rate in the third quarter, its lowest since 1962.
In my view, injecting this post-consumerist perspective into environmental and energy policy would not address the gravamen of the global warming problem, which is not over-consumption but under-consumption.
The proponents of consumption-based stimuli overlook the essentiality of saving.
In June, diesel exports reached a record high of nearly 20 million barrels, or more than 20% of the average U.S. monthly diesel fuel consumption--97.6 million barrels per month in 2006.
Some commentators feel that the Chinese investment boom must eventually run out of steam, whether for lack of good projects to finance or because the country will shift to a more consumption-led model.
We will most likely see international trade decline further until China embarks upon the path to becoming a service and consumption-based economy at which point the West will begin to export in a big way.
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What Russians don't seem to be shelling out for is shelter and power--the combination of housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels merits just 9% of Russians' overall consumption--thanks in part to lingering Soviet-era subsidies.
Google and Yahoo engineers publish software code for public consumption--a way to access their maps, say, or a temporary link to their search tool--and in a near-instant developers around the globe are building new software based on it.
Mr Ishiba, who thinks Mr Tanigaki may not be re-elected as party leader, says it is more likely, provided Mr Noda promises to step down afterwards, that the party will support the consumption-tax increase in the upper house.
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Boyle's film style is the contemporary correlative of a long tradition of Westerners, and British travelers in particular, presenting India as something fascinating to look at, a spectacle for consumption--now in the darkened theater, rather than the private gallery.
The rise in global commodities has aggravated the challenges of this policy, since Beijing can expect to import more goods at higher costs, even as it fails to generate new household consumption-driven demand effectively (notwithstanding the surge in automobile imports when comparing the first-quarter 2011 deficit to that of 2004).
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And the looming block obsolescence of its existing nuclear energy infrastructure -- which currently supplies 8% of total U.S. daily consumption -- means that, unless steps are promptly taken to prepare, certify and bring on-line safe, modern replacement reactors, America will become still more vulnerable to threats, or actual interruptions of, its overseas oil supplies.
In the case of the Siberian gas pipeline project, Moscow was well aware of the inordinate West European dependency on Soviet natural gas supplies -- ultimately projected to exceed 60% of total European gas consumption -- which would have resulted from the successful completion of both strands of the twin 3, 600-mile pipelines connected to the West European gas grid.
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After years of offering only high-power, high-consumption six-, eight-, and 12-cylinder engines, BMW, Land Rover and Mercedes-Benz will start rolling out efficient four-cylinder engines in the United States this year.
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Still, they note that factors not recorded in the surveys -- rather than chocolate consumption alone -- could have been responsible for some or all of the health benefits they observed.
At the event, HGST is comparing the power consumption between a helium-filled drive and an equivalent air-filled drive side-by-side, demonstrating a reduction in power consumption for the helium-filled drive of 23 percent.
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It is a low-power consumption, radio-based system which allows devices to communicate with each other wirelessly.
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