There was a New Deal case of a farmer growing wheat for his own consumption: the Feds claimed the right to restrict this as his non-consumption, as a result of growing his own, of out of state wheat meant that this was inter-state commerce.
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On a similar note, in this era of non-conspicuous consumption, when Target and Wal-Mart have become brand badges for those who can afford Saks and Neiman-Marcus, companies that represent prestige brands are going to have to work extra hard to make sure that the entire experience of the brand is worth its weighty title and price tag.
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The first foray into non-traditional content consumption came courtesy of the now-ubiquitous search feature.
Using energy to make solar cells is, accordingly, speculative, not a long term means of reducing consumption of non-renewable fuels.
Non-fossil fuel consumption, on the other hand increased about 2 percent.
He says this will create regional jobs, increase resource security, reduce consumption of non-renewable resources, increase material efficiency and prevent carbon emissions and industrial waste - all on a big scale.
Inflation and interest rates were coming down from high levels, household leverage was very, very low, financial innovation non-existent, consumption had been deferred, and demography was coiled as the baby boomers were just coming on line.
Some of his restaurants "use a percentage of green power to help offset some of our non-renewable energy consumption, and we are looking to do more in the future, " Batali spokeswoman Elizabeth Meltz wrote in an email.
Final consumption expenditures of non-profit institutions serving households are outlays of public associations on consumer goods and services provided free to households.
Final consumption expenditures consist of final consumption expenditures of households, general governmental final consumption expenditures on individual goods and services and collective services, and also final consumption expenditures of non-profit institutions serving households.
China will "endeavor" to cut emissions of carbon dioxide -- the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change -- by "a notable margin" in coming years, Hu said, adding that China also will "vigorously develop renewable energy and nuclear energy" with the goal of increasing the share of non-fossil fuels in total energy consumption to 15 percent by 2020.
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Ironically, the potential health benefits associated with heavey coffee consumption appear to be related to non-caffeine components of coffee.
But the CDC notes that the consumption of sugar drinks -- including non-carbonated beverages -- is higher than it was 30 years ago.
Ah well, says the next reasonable person, you are surely not going to compare non-payment of a parking fine with alleged consumption of cocaine and ecstasy, are you?
The future energy picture for the U.S. or the planet is not constrained by the availability of supplies, either fossil or non-fossil, but by efficiency gains in generation and consumption.
For one thing, if governments try to force people to save more than they want, the savers may try to offset this either by reducing non-mandatory saving or by borrowing to maintain their current consumption.
They find that a rise in the level of consumption of rich households leads to more spending by the non-rich.
Use of disposable income account shows how households, general government and non-profit institutions serving households distribute their disposable income between final consumption expenditures and saving.
Various government agencies and non-government organizations (NGOs) are working together to campaign against ivory consumption in the hopes that driving down demand will reduce or eliminate the incentive for poaching.
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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.
Higher food prices lower households' capacity to spend on non-food products, thus worsening India's ongoing economic slowdown as private consumption accounts for 57% of GDP.
People in this group were also the only ones who showed a significant increase in their maximum oxygen consumption (which measures the capacity for aerobic exercise) compared to the non-exercising control group.
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