The first stage in the cycle is that of factor-driven economies which focus on low-cost basic factor conditions, such as low-skilled labour, natural resources and geographic location.

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Thus, the life-cycle analysis shows that for every mile driven, the average electric car indirectly emits about six ounces of carbon-dioxide.

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Perhaps the greatest winner this election cycle was Nate Silver and the other data-driven analysts.

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Within the limitations of the publisher-driven model of the current cycle of gaming, this is flying close to the sun.

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Yet with one debate of the 2012 election cycle still to come, several memes have already driven the next-day conversation.

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What the marketer needs is reliable metrics and standards to measure cross-site funnel performance while consumers are driven from one stage of the cycle to the next.

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In 2003, as then-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan cut interest rates to an unprecedented 1%, Mr. Connolly described the U.S. economy as a debt-driven Ponzi scheme and predicted that interest rates would have to fall even further in the next cycle to keep the scheme going.

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Long-run growth rates are driven by structural factors not monetary policy, which mainly affects output over the cycle.

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