Europe isn't just a heavy consumer of alcohol--booze production plays an important role in the economy.
Rice growing, in particular, is a heavy consumer of water: it takes some 5, 000 liters of water to produce 1 kg of rice.
And many Britons carry a heavy burden of consumer debt as well as their mortgages.
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Gold thinks most people simply don't think of RadioShack as a true heavy-duty consumer electronics retailer any more, especially when so many private-label items makes it tougher for customers to know exactly what they're getting, compared with buying a Sony or Toshiba .
U.S. economic data due for release Friday is heavy and includes the consumer price index, real earnings, retail sales, industrial production and capacity utilization, manufacturing and trade inventory and sales, and the University of Michigan consumer sentiment survey.
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But an increasingly heavy drugs bill, rising consumer expectations and doctors' resistance have combined to start sending medical costs up again by 6-8% a year.
As the concern over privacy demonstrates, it did not require explicit, heavy-handed regulation to broaden consumer choices and realize new opportunities in the marketplace.
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In response to consumer concerns about caps on heavy data users, Comcast is revising its rules for high-speed Internet subscribers.
As process manufacturers, chemicals companies are on the upstream side of the overall consumer value chain, with heavy exposure to raw material pricing and energy costs.
After establishing its expertise as a global provider of logistics services involving vehicle shipments, the company has reached into other industries: steel, machinery, heavy chemicals, energy, construction and consumer goods.
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Investment in China is 40% in manufacturing, 30% in property and the consumer, and the rest in infrastructure and heavy state industry.
China has also become another major consumer for LNG as it looks to replace its heavy dependence of oil based commodities with LNG.
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Soria and his party have placed the blame for the deficit on what they have called unsustainable subsidy programs, which shifted the heavy weight of transition costs to the state rather than the consumer.
But the activists are unsatisfied with heavy regulatory burdens that require nearly a decade of extensive environmental and consumer safety testing before a new GE crop can be put on the market, a phenomenon that has made it far too expensive to use the technology to improve any but the largest-scale commodity crops.
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My mention of mineral resource vulnerability may surprise some but I should point out the heavy dependency of rare earth minerals in technology such as mobile devices and consumer electronics, and the limited supply we have.
It has been benefiting from the rebound in consumer spending and the fact that it does not generally resort to heavy discounting in order to protect its premium brand image.
India's central bank is a longtime critic of the government's heavy spending, which the bank says dilutes its inflation-fighting efforts by keeping consumer demand artificially high.
Still, the consumer banking, credit cards and mortgage business remains week and banks with heavy exposure to U.S. consumers may find it difficult to generate significant upside to current stock values.
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Friday: The economic calendar is relatively heavy with the release of export and import prices along with the preliminary University of Michigan consumer sentiment index.
There are other crowdfunding sits and groups that, yes, specialize in companies that do consumer technology, that will need additional funding later, that are IP-heavy, and that are a little complex.
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Consumer spending not only pulled the economy out of recession but continued to do the heavy lifting, as businesses remained reluctant to spend until well into the recovery.
Companies with heavy exposure to raw materials, particularly in the food and beverage segments, have to balance rising input costs with consumer demand.
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