It authorizes the transaction and sends bits whizzing back, a 39, 000-kilometer roundtrip journey that involves five stops plus a calculation of how much to charge the merchant in fees and how to divvy up those fees among the banks.

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But this is only direct, and this is a subset of it, so can you make it apples and apples, and say the 250, 000 plus whatever indirect -- I mean, how much of a subset is it?

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In a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, green tea extract increased energy expenditure, which is a measure of metabolism, plus it had a significant effect on fat oxidation, or how much fat your body burns.

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Plus, emotionally, it can cause resentment, as people feel like the workaholic is raising the bar of how much work is acceptable, he adds.

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