The sight and sound of spinning turbine blades on windy stretches of the Australian coast and on inland hills are becoming more common as legislators and consumer demand make renewable energy part of the mainstream.
The poor performance of the economy has prompted calls for an acceleration of government spending to help make up for the lack of consumer demand.
In this post-financial crisis world, the Fed has taken a Keynesian edict and turned it on its head: instead of the government stepping in after a crisis to make up for the loss of aggregate demand from the private sector, it has fallen to central banks.
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When we argue with him we demand that he make the effort of replying.
The combination of high-performance features and smart design make P3 the headphones of choice for people who demand great sound on the move.
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Saying things without providing references to evidence is a hallmark of the denialist argument, even as they demand climate scientists make available for scrutiny every change to every draft of every paper they ever touch, as well as the proprietary source code of computer programs they create to analyze their data.
The on-demand nature of cloud solutions make such events nearly risk-free in terms of time and money.
Whatever its political origins, the transportation bill will either make a mockery of fiscal prudence or demand big cuts in other spending programmes.
Their concern is whether the company can make enough to meet demand and how much of a drag on profit margins the lower priced mini will be.
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The demands of the Indian Premier League - or at least the demand of the players to make some money in the IPL - has added to the feeling that this first Test is being played at least a week too early.
At today's levels of world demand, an influx of Iraqi crude could force down prices and make other OPEC members cut production even more than they already have over the past year.
Coughlin said games of this magnitude, between teams of this make-up, demand it.
Many traders are stepping away from the traditional silk market to make the most of the new and varied demand.
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"Sustained conditions of low demand in European markets make it necessary to realign Honda's business structure, " the company said in a statement.
It recently announced the new Oracle Public Cloud and is working to make its entire suite of enterprise applications available on demand via the cloud.
Its Polish, Serbian and Turkish plants run at more than 70% of their capacity, whereas Italian ones run at 33%. (Part of the gap comes from lower productivity, part from Fiat choosing to make cars elsewhere and part from varying levels of demand).
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And he adds that reduced demand in Japan would only make the over-supply of modules worse.
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Higher inflation means higher bond yields as investors demand a higher return to make up for their loss of purchasing power.
This puts the Administration in a further logical bind, as the policy is clearly grounded in the notion that monetary incentives work: make a desirable thing free, and people will demand more of it.
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By contrast, humans kill around 100 million sharks every year - a number that has ballooned in recent years because of the enormous demand for shark fins to make shark fin soup.
Hardware partners such as HP, Asus, Acer and Dell are also expected to make the best use of the holiday season to boost PC demand with their respective launches of Windows 8-powered ultrabooks, tablets and PCs.
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At the margin, it does make sense that buy-backs affect the balance of supply and demand.
"We have the possibility that if demand increases and sales conditions improve, we can make another plant of 400, 000 units, " he said.
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Sure, Uber needs fancy mobile designers and smart demand-predicting algorithms, but for any of that to make a difference it has to have hundreds of people willing to drive other people around.
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This trade has done a marvelous job of driving up those prices well beyond what would make sense if prices were set solely on the basis of supply and demand for the commodity.
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In the face of wildly uncertain demand, management can find it difficult to make the correct decisions about capital allocation and scaling production capacity.
Bakers can overestimate the demand for their product and make too many, driving down the average value of a cupcake in the same way that inflation lowers the value of money.
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For the next 20 or 30 years, fossil fuels will remain dominant, supplying more than 85% of global demand for energy, and it is important to make them more environmentally friendly by putting more effort into reduced or zero emission fossil fuels.
Demand Side Platforms (DSPs) like DataXu came along to help advertisers make sense of multiple real time bidding opportunities in new ad exchanges.
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On the other hand Spotify is clearly an on-demand service and one needs to know exactly what they want to make good use of it.
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