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But the focus is now on smart cards, which would ration subsidised petrol to a few litres a week, with excess consumption being paid for at the cost of imports.
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The latest round is that the corn industry wants to change the usual name from HFCS (which has bad connotations now that half the country seems to be blaming it for obesity, something caused by an excess of caloric consumption over caloric use, not any specific foodstuff) to corn sugar.
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Mr Greider chooses a global-crisis scenario, arguing among other things that the world is suffering from a shortage of consumption (an excess of saving) because workers in developing countries earn less than their productivity would indicate.
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As a result, the government is encouraging people to reduce consumption, and put excess water to better use.
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In addition to scanning the code of an app, the service will watch for fishy behavior such as excess battery drain and abnormal resource consumption.
ENGADGET
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That is a massive amount of excess overhead in hardware, real estate, power consumption and productivity.
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According to Pivot Capital, Chinese excess capacity in cement is greater than the combined consumption by the US, Japan, and India combined.
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To rebalance an economy with excess capacity and to continue growing, China needs domestic consumption to grow much faster than domestic production for many years.
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Consumption has since risen fivefold, with the average American now wolfing down in excess of 3 pounds a year.
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For example, freshwater systems polluted with excess agricultural fertiliser will suffocate with algae, killing off fish and making water unfit for human consumption.
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