Across all sectors of the economy, decreasing consumption of carbon-emitting fossil fuels resulted in both a lower carbon intensity and lower absolute emissions.

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They all have generally favorable demographic profiles, lower absolute levels of national debt, manageable debt term structures, and many other positive economic and capital market factors.

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In most places there are no absolute shortages and the task is to lower domestic prices without doing too much harm to farmers.

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But the nominee must win a vote of confidence from the lower house of parliament, the Sejm, with an absolute majority of its members.

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In 2010 parents of a Pennsylvania high schooler sued Lower Merion School District for "spying" on their son using Absolute surveillance software.

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And as I argue in the latest issue of Breakthrough Journal, we get absolute economic gains today comparable to those of the 1950s and 1960s despite having lower growth rates, because we are so much richer than in the past.

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Or if Lewis was to achieve that height undercover, it would be an "absolute" world record, a British indoor record, but not the British record which would remain 34cm lower.

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Thus the final score card could read as follows: higher tax rates, lower upper class income and public revenues that fall short of estimated targets, even if they do not decline in absolute amount.

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