So it is conceivable taxing her more might mean less consumption on her part.
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Raw materials, processing and consumption are all part of a process through which transport is powered.
Indeed, company formation and the jobs that result are solely a function of delayed consumption on the part of individuals.
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Consumption and investment are part of the expenditure stream while profits are part of the income stream.
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The summit leaders will ask nations that have high drug consumption to do their part to reduce that demand, the Spanish news agency EFE quoted Lewis as saying.
In addition, Hurricane Sandy temporarily curbed consumption in the northeastern part of the country, not only due to less driving but thousands of canceled airline flights, he added.
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But it has still to convince Bolivians that coca growing and coca-leaf consumption are not just part of their way of life but a crucial element in international crime.
While the life-saving innovations wrought by doctors and pharmaceutical companies can't be minimized given that humans themselves are economic capital, health care, far from an economic input, is for the most part pure consumption.
In the long term, growth in emerging economies will be contingent on their ability to innovate and shift away from an externally driven growth model to one fueled in part by local consumption.
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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.
The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the newly installed Minister of Finance and Economy, Mr. Yosano, has been fairly consistent in wanting to retain the insurance structure of the pension scheme, but has been willing to tap consumption tax revenues to fill part of the funding gap.
The wage increase has, in large part, morphed into consumption, mostly in private households.
Consumption of chicken meat in Malaysia is high by global standards, with per-capita consumption around 77 pounds, reflecting in part subsidies and price controls.
Way back in 1899, influential Norwegian-American sociologist Thorsten Veblen dismissed fashion as part of a trend of conspicuous consumption.
Officials said occasional consumption of shark, swordfish or marlin as part of a balanced diet by any other adults is unlikely to result in harmful effects.
Buildings will need to be better insulated as part of a drive to reduce energy consumption.
The consumption tax approach is one that at least places part of the burden of financing the welfare system on current recipients.
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That slice of American agriculture is fundamental and really needs to continue to be emphasized and grown as a part of the entire food production and consumption system in the country.
But I see this as part of the process of the US ceding consumption to fast growing Asian economies, such as China, India, Vietnam and Indonesia.
But it would still justify hefty sacrifices on the part of the rich to shore up the consumption of the poor, even if they have not yet been born.
This statistic could be seen against this week's profits announcement by British Gas, which reported an 11% increase in profits from its residential energy business - in part thanks to a 12% rise in consumption.
Cameras, like the array of printers HP sells, are for the most part a means to an end: driving the consumption of more high-margin printing supplies such as ink cartridges.
But whether or not China helped cause the crisis, there is not much debate that it needs to be part of the solution, because without higher Chinese consumption in China, the only way the global economy will become more balanced in future, with less debt on countries like Britain and America, is by those countries also having little or no economic growth.
But Larson is also a data point in an economic revolution that is quietly turning millions of people into part-time entrepreneurs, and disrupting old notions about consumption and ownership.
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As part of its Digital Service Efficiency effort to reduce power consumption in its data centers, eBay slightly changed some of its software code so that the code would require less memory.
At least in part it seems to function not as an investment good but as a consumption good.
Since then, the Chinese government has supported higher wages in part to address labor unrest, but also as way to boost domestic consumption and reduce reliance on exports to expand the economy.
As the value flowing from user data has a ripple effect on all the sides of business models, users become part of business operations, thereby blurring the line that used to separate consumption from production.
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In part, this is to convince foreigners that Japan is serious about reviving domestic consumption, rather than relying on exports to get itself out of trouble.
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