And social networking friendships demand a huge amount of work if they are to be maintained.
Even though market values of housing have declined, taxing districts nevertheless demand the same amount, or even more to fund operations.
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The VA had been somewhat underfunded for a number of years despite the growing amount of demand caused by returning Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.
This huge amount of demand ought to keep mortgage rates low, but instead they have climbed to around 5.5%, from under 5% a month ago, according to BankRate.com.
As a consequence we expect that there will healthy demand for SATA-based enterprise HDDs for storing the vast amount of internet content and also continued demand for traditional high performance HDDs (although this is a market that is somewhat threatened by the growth of enterprise flash memory).
They propose an infrastructure program to promote the economy, but finance it with a tax increase that removes at least an equal amount of aggregate demand.
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If we would only study what he REALLY did, we can learn a tremendous amount about real demand creation, and put it to work for our business and our economy.
But every demand creator spends an inordinate amount of time talking to customers, trying to find out what their hassles are, and thinking about what things that irk them today could be turned into delight tomorrow.
Mr Huhne said the government would aim to encourage new entrants into the energy market, make clean energy more attractive to investors, develop reserve plants to ensure "the lights stay on" during periods of high demand, and limit the amount of carbon emissions from "dirty" power stations.
This unusually high demand was more than double the amount expected (due mainly to cheapness).
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Competition suits customers, but it also carries the risk that clearing-houses will water down standards on the amount of margin they demand, for instance to win deals.
They make at least a guess at demand locally and then supply just that amount.
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That will be a key question for profitability as retailers aim to carry just the right amount of goods to meet demand without either running low and missing out on sales, as some did in 2009, or carrying so much that steep discounts are needed.
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The same OECD experts find that the U.S., Canada, and Australia have built about the amount of infrastructure that fits the demand.
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Capital expenditures such as this indicate the significant demand for retaining talent and significantly expanding the amount of engineers these companies have.
Analysts also said that the heavy demand at the auctions was helped by the amount of cash that the European Central Bank is injecting into the system.
If 10% of drivers reduce their consumption by 10% each, that will work out to 1% decrease in demand (presuming that they consumed an average amount to begin with).
He boldly predicts that Top Glove will produce 30 billion gloves within 14 months, which numbers (based on data from the Malaysian Rubber Glove Manufacturers' Association) say would amount to 25% of worldwide demand.
The price of natural gas is influenced by several factors including current and anticipated supply and demand of natural gas, temperature changes, amount of gas stored, pipeline charges for transporting gas, and cost of gas for end users.
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When it came time for Goldman to allocate Facebook shares to its clients overseas, the investment bank saw so much demand it was often unable to give people the amount they requested, said one of the people familiar with the matter.
Utilities in some parts of the country also can get paid by grid operators for reducing the amount of power used during hours of high demand.
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It says it can no longer supply gas to the Tajiks as it has to meet growing demand from its main partner, China, but the amount Tajikistan needs is small by comparison.
In the past decade, world energy use has increased by an amount equal to adding one United States worth of demand.
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Annalisa Piazza, a strategist at Newedge, said demand at the auction was soft, adding that the total amount sold was just a touch below the maximum target.
Put another way, because a weaker yen equals a stronger dollar, Toyota can demand fewer dollars from its American customers to achieve the same amount of yen in profit per unit.
So there is a huge amount of uncertainty about the course, the strength of demand.
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SaaS works on the on-demand principle, which means that the enterprises can license only the amount of software required versus the traditional way of procuring the license per device.
So, move money from those rich and corporations into the hands of the poor and more, say, some 10 or 15% of the amount moved, will be spent, thus boosting aggregate demand.
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The right amount will vary as the economy grows, and as the demand for money fluctuates.
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