Slightly over 7 months supply for the US at present consumption levels.
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Something that is not just purchased for the way it works, looks or feels, but which provides us with the opportunity for conspicuous consumption at the same time.
The International Energy Agency lifted its demand forecast for next year and raised its projections for consumption to 2015, citing stronger US growth.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, consumption of smoked tobacco products fell 27 per cent from 2000 to 2011, as taxes increased and smoking bans at bars and restaurants took hold.
And tablets are very good for information consumption, an activity that many of us do a lot of.
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Per capita consumption of soda in the US, for example, has declined from around 54 gallons per year in 1998 to 44 gallons today.
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More spending does not help us if, for example, it results in socially destructive consumption and malinvestment.
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The move towards imports and increased consumption could be a boon for Chinese ETFs and select US exporters.
Mr Bloomberg says the president has taken "major steps" to reduce the US carbon consumption, including new fuel-efficiency standards for vehicles.
As experiences and engagement, particularly through digital and technology, become more central to any great marketing idea, many of us now spend much more time revisiting how to best stage it all for consumption.
There's also a 30-pin docking port on the bottom edge of the tablet, but ZTE informed us it'd be another month or so before the dock is ready for public consumption.
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While it isn't as solidly constructed as its predecessor -- seams where body panels met weren't uniform, and the power button had shallower travel than we'd like -- the B still strikes us as a sturdy device, and, of course, it's not built for consumer consumption anyway.
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Using bute on horses for human consumption is banned in the EU, but thousands of tonnes of horsemeat is imported from the US, Canada and Mexico where practices are different.
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