With the rapid development of the Chinese Internet industry, users spend more time and conduct more activities online, such as downloading applications, playing games, online shopping, etc.
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This means that as more and more activities are outsourced, the supply chain turns from a single integrated process performed within the boundaries of traditional corporations to a fragmented and disintegrated process, a collection of separate and disjointed activities, performed across several independent subcontractors.
The new approach is to pay them more and police their activities more strictly.
While international trade moves our jobs into more productive activities, takes advantage of our comparative advantage, makes our labor force as a whole more productive, it does not necessarily create more jobs than it destroys in the short term.
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The government spending that creates the demand for tax revenue soon draws resources away from more productive activities.
Within a single tour, there are sometimes several options for more adventurous activities, including scuba diving, sea kayaking, camping and rock- or ice-climbing.
But it turns out that students whose educational costs are paid for entirely by their parents, engage in more leisure activities.
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Cheaper communications and advances in computer technology are allowing service-sector companies to move more and more sophisticated activities to cheaper overseas locations.
People were beginning to perform more and more everyday activities online, from booking flights and ordering books to researching stocks and making investments.
While toe-touches and extra flexibility might be required in gymnastics or figure skating, it's irrelevant for more everyday activities like basketball or weightlifting.
As a result of Big Noise, families report improved relationships at home, wider social networks and more shared activities between parents and children.
Those 1950s gambits lowered tax liabilities but dissuaded individuals from engaging in the more beneficial activities of increasing their incomes and expanding their businesses.
Or rather, if you geotag your tweets and photos as carelessly as the average microblogger, they know where you sleep, work, and potentially engage in far more private activities.
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In a sequence of expansive events, Congress both would claim and the courts would sanction new authority for the federal government to regulate and control more and more private activities.
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He says that while at the same time that these institutions are under-regulated they are also taking on more risky activities, and if another crisis erupts taxpayers might have to foot the bill again.
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The Vickers plan, based on the Independent Commission on Banking report led by Sir John Vickers, is designed to keep saver and business deposits from being compromised by the more speculative activities typically undertaken by investment banking operations.
In order to repair this trust, UK policymakers and bankers would rather implement harsher regulatory measures such as the Vickers Plan, designed to keep saver and business deposits from being compromised by the more speculative activities typically undertaken by investment banking operations.
For a trip to be deductible, you must put in 40 hours of work a week. (Keep a log in case you're audited.) Tasks can range from genteel drudgery such as observing, measuring and cataloging, to more taxing activities, say, hiking to 17, 000 feet in the Himalayas to study Nepalese snow leopards.
And the more value added activities that you subcontract out then the more your subcontractor is going to learn.
For example, when the Bank of England began to tighten slightly its oversight of Moscow Narodny Bank in London after 1986, the USSR simply moved at least a portion of its more risque banking activities to Eurobank in Paris and East-West United Bank in Luxembourg -- where regulatory officials were more laissez-faire.
Once companies realize they can sell more by creating social activities around their products, even more things will communicate, and we will respond to them.
On average knowledge workers could regain an hour per day through more productive communication activities.
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All events are free and many more locally organised activities are planned for 2011.
As mentioned above, one of the more popular tablet activities during leisure hours is online shopping.
The Army also removed all of the bedroom doors to allow sergeants to monitor activities more closely.
They learn more about the activities of the start-ups and rub elbows with the board members from the venture community.
Although an uncommon and largely unheard of term, the trend is one of the more recurrent vacation activities among tourists worldwide.
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At the University of Chicago, scientists found that lonely people find everyday activities more stressful than those who are not socially isolated.
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