So it is conceivable taxing her more might mean less consumption on her part.
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This has resulted in negative publicity for CSD companies and less consumption of soft drinks.
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Medical caregivers should encourage less consumption for girls and women if they suspect they are consuming too much.
And we've got to be more competitive in exports and do less consumption.
This September, Patagonia teamed up with eBay to expand its Common Threads Initiative and encourage less consumption, reuse and recycling.
Those gains take two forms: less electricity consumption and a lower cost per unit of processing power.
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The more government forces everyone to save, the less additional consumption a worker will be able to enjoy from each additional hour of labour.
And it said that more cycling, alongside less meat consumption, would help reduce the costs to the health service and the economy more widely of Scotland's obesity problems.
Without getting too much into the details of the report, basically, fewer orders equal less manufacturing demand which equals less oil consumption which equals lower oil prices and thus a weaker CAD.
The significantly higher tax base that would result under lower capital income taxes means that such a reform would be deficit-neutral, provided that either transfer payments were reduced by less than 2% of GDP or a national consumption tax of less than 3% were adopted.
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Were Japan's recovery broad-based, an export slowdown would matter less, because domestic consumption would take up the slack.
China's official statistics show private consumption growing less quickly than the economy as a whole from 2001 to 2010.
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People are looking for bargains and appear to be less interested in conspicuous consumption as a source for personal gratification.
Among other things, Lord Skidelsky thinks shorter working hours, higher taxes on consumption and less advertising might provide a way to do it.
Coffee drinking was categorized based on daily consumption: less than a cup (or none), 1-2 cups, 3-4 cups, and more than 4 cups.
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The resulting levels of private production and consumption will be less than is socially optimal.
The average level of daily coffee consumption is slightly less than two cups, according to the study.
As a result, consumption should take less of a knock from the downturn in the housing market.
Seen in this light, chronic added-sugar consumption is no less a problem than smoking or alcoholism.
These sorts of conspicuous celebrations of consumption often seem less like life-altering rites, and more like the ultimate consumer experience.
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Instead, home owners would have been forced to make higher mortgage payments and would have had even less money to spend on consumption.
Although over three-fifths of the world's population live in Asia, they only account for just over one-fifth of global private consumption, much less than America's 30% share.
Gross value added is calculated at the level of branches of the economy as the value of output of goods and services less the value of intermediate consumption.
While windmills cannot power cars directly, motor gasoline accounts for less than half of the consumption of petroleum products in America, so if wind reduces only non-vehicular use of petroleum it will still reduce reliance on petroleum products from the Middle East.
On a per capita basis that would still be less than a quarter of US consumption.
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Consumption may also prove less important to the recovery than asserted in the warnings of another Great Depression.
Economists generally see two goals for tax reform: less complexity and more bias towards taxing consumption.
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