At the margin, refining capacity, local demand, these sorts of things matter from day to day.
McDonald's, the world's second biggest food outlet after Subway, increasingly adapts its range to local demand.
They will rebundle modules for their purposes and populations to create certificates and degrees that meet local demand.
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India's imports remain high because of rising local demand for oil and gold.
But since the 1990s, craft beer makers in British Columbia have risen to meet local demand for flavourful pints.
The standard-bearer of the hamburger, McDonald's, is bowing to local demand and is opening a meat-free restaurant in India.
He also said that it may not come to all parts of the world as different regions will determine the local demand.
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By the late 1960s, the steel mill had saturated local demand.
Only if there are spare places after local demand has been satisfied does a child from outside the catchment area have a chance of getting in.
Brazil is also wrestling with inflation, thanks to a QE2 fed commodities bubble and local demand for credit and consumer goods and services driving up prices.
But if exports are not quite as important as they seem, how about local demand, which traditionally provides the oomph for most of China's sprawling economy?
In south Staffordshire, for example, a number of secondary schools meet all the local demand for places so take in some youngsters from Birmingham and Walsall too.
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The free school policy responds to local demand from parents.
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And he's planning to push municipalities to use renewable energy, citing a recent survey that identified 76 Japanese cities with enough energy from green sources to meet local demand.
The import rebound indicates soft, but resilient local demand.
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Meanwhile, Rousseff and Finance Minister Guido Mantega are sticking to their guns when it comes to their inflation shoot-out, arguing that excess global liquidity is a key, if not main culprit, rather than excess local demand.
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It said one such branch in a British marine-equipment company wrote to the firm's headquarters in London suggesting that the company take advantage of strong local demand by moving more of its operations from Britain to China.
It is running at two speeds: steady local demand boosted by credit and strong labor markets on one side, and a weaker industrial and export economy facing strong, imported competition and less demand from the U.S. and European trading partners.
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It has slashed local energy demand, reducing chronic pollution and leaving more oil for export.
He says that Pakistan is not producing enough films to supply local cinema demand.
Because the fan base and the local media demand it.
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Siri is combined with Yelp to provide listings for local businesses on demand, so it can answer requests for local services.
With many residents still accustomed to shopping in small local shops, demand isn't yet keeping up with supply at the new, big malls, according to information supplied to Eastern Connecticut State by Steven Beesley, co-founder of the Institute of Shopping Centre Management in Hong Kong.
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Because initial deal sites had little to no relationships established with local merchants, and no way to gauge local supply and demand, many merchants were left struggling with either huge spikes in demand at extreme discounts or times with little demand when it was needed most.
Although the demand is huge, local firms don't always meet that demand in the most efficient way, and produce too many models that aren't quite right for Chinese auto consumers while being costly to manufacture.
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