She actually got her boyfriend to go online with his poker account and demand that I pay her back, lol.
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Commodities have been rising on account of demand and loose monetary policy in the US, in particular, where near-zero capital costs have weakened the dollar and turned money managers onto hard assets like oil, gold, and agricultural commodities.
Since returning as CEO in January 2007, Dell has been struggling to revive sales and profit on declining demand for PCs, which account for the majority of revenue.
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There currently appears to be sufficient supply of non-Iranian oil to permit foreign countries to significantly reduce their import of Iranian oil, taking into account current estimates of demand, increased production by countries other than Iran, inventories of crude oil and petroleum products, and available strategic petroleum reserves.
People passing through the court system, therefore, seem to account for most illegal drug demand.
With stimulative fiscal and monetary policy bolstering domestic demand, China's current-account surplus has shrunk by two-thirds, from 10% of GDP in 2007.
Wages and domestic demand would rise and the current-account surplus would fall.
Communities and local civil society organizations need to be actively involved in decision-making in order to generate bottom up demand for change and hold governments to account for public investment in water and sanitation.
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China and India will account for half of this incremental demand and together will overtake the US as the largest market.
The UUP's Basil McCrea highlighted the research suggesting the educational and social benefits of pre-school education, and asked the minister to increase funding to account for 98% of potential demand instead of the current 90%.
The central bank, which has kept interest rates high to offset lax fiscal policy, is in a policy bind: even higher rates might attract a destabilising amount of speculative capital, while lower rates would fuel domestic demand and imports, pushing the current-account deficit higher.
Electricity demand is also being met by imports, which account for about 14% of supply.
This raises serious doubts about claims that biofuels account for a big shift in global demand.
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Then, excess demand resulted in higher inflation, huge current-account deficits and rampant asset-price inflation.
Rate cuts could potentially widen the current-account deficit by encouraging consumption and boosting demand for imported goods.
Rate cuts could potentially widen the current account deficit by encouraging consumption and boosting demand for imported goods.
China and India alone account for 55 percent of global jewelry demand and 49 percent of global gold demand.
Industrial applications for gold account for a far smaller portion of demand for this metal than is the case with silver.
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The WEO expects China and India to account for over half the incremental energy demand, while the Middle East is predicted to become a major new demand center.
Ford has said it must restructure its business to account for a permanent shift in consumer demand toward cars and crossovers, and away from the large trucks and sport-utility vehicles that had been a staple of profits in past years.
Fiscal and monetary stimulus, which jolted domestic demand, has caused China's current-account surplus to narrow dramatically, from 10.1% of GDP in 2007 to a projected 2.9% this year, according to Nomura, a financial services group, which sees it almost disappearing by 2013.
India and China account for 55 percent of total gold jewelry demand, WGC said.
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According to the industry group, personal computers and mobile phones account for 60.0% of chip demand.
This will move the region from a current-account deficit to a surplus, causing the demand for dollars to subside.
The driving-force of current-account balances is relative rates of growth in demand.
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If this succeeds in stimulating demand, Japanese saving will fall and the current-account surplus in due course will narrow. (In the short term, however, most of the effect will be masked by a cheaper yen.) Perhaps demand in Japan is already stronger than the figures suggest.
According to the newspaper's account, the US is discussing Egypt's demand that the Middle East become a nuclear-free zone.
But as Mark Williams of Capital Economics says, central to Keynes's idea was that a tax be imposed on countries running large current-account surpluses, to encourage them to boost domestic demand.
Two years ago, the government required China's 1, 000 largest industrial consumers--which account for about a third of all Chinese energy demand--to establish their own programs and auditing systems to meet efficiency standards.
The revamped system, which is rumored to already have content lined-up from NBC, CBS, and Paramount, will supposedly store a customer's purchases on their .mac account's iDisk and stream the content on demand via Front Row 2.0.
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