Unfortunately, once you sort through how much more China can actually spend in the near term, and take into account that--at market exchange rates--China's economy is only around 6% of world gross domestic product, the effect on global growth will be small.
The tastiness and package size of a food product can have an effect on satiety and how much a person ultimately consumes.
The company developed GAIA to evaluate the effect of its product ingredients on water and identify any potential for toxicity, persistence, and bioaccumulation.
This, in effect, stretched product liability laws by claiming that oil companies that refined, marketed and sold MTBE-laced gasoline knew it would leak and contaminate water supplies.
Seems a near-decade of comedy routines, movies and TV commercials that poke fun at foreign accents in distant lands answering questions about simple product information has had an effect.
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Some big internet firms even seek the government's input before launching a service, in effect involving it in product development.
It is simply not possible to throw that much money into an economy and not have a positive effect on gross domestic product.
In any case, the iPod shuffle has proved the product's vaunted "halo effect" in that, when Apple introduced its new iPod in January, everybody stopped talking about how many copies of Halo 2 Microsoft shipped during December.
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From beauty products to books, the Oprah Effect can take a struggling product and turn it into a household name.
This can then be cross-matched against things like online sales or search advertisements, and actions taken to see what further effect these might have on product sales.
The bottom line is that for the time being, from a regulatory perspective each biosimilar version of an approved biological product will be regarded as, in effect, a completely new and distinct drug.
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The highly alkaline substance is a by-product of aluminium production and has a caustic effect on the skin.
Product A was about to go off-patent and become available as a generic, and we were trying to anticipate the effect this would have on sales of Product B, still on patent.
They were in effect buying the person who stood behind the product along with the product itself.
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One effect is that such important elements of national product as public spending on goods and services have been left entirely out of account.
The listing of chlorinated Tris went into effect in October 2012, which means any product still containing the flame retardant needs to come with a warning label in California.
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In recent years commentators have noted the existence of the so-called Delia Effect, whereby her endorsement of a food product or cooking utensil, be it sea salt, vegetable bouillon or a balloon whisk, sees shoppers falling over themselves in a buying frenzy.
The more frequently purchased the product or service, the greater the dilution of the measured advertising effect by including repeat sales.
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There is an enormous positive internal effect: Lutz plants a flag at GM for all of the product people to rally behind and creates an aura of victory to come.
The halo effect is generally used to explain why a customer has a bias towards a certain product because of a favorable experience with another product at the same company.
The final product may take either of two styles: elder brother celadon has a black finish with a crackle effect, while the younger brother variety has a thick, lavender-grey and plum-green finish.
But he says you can always accept lower margin at any product at any given time for a strategic reason, but at the background we always know that this halo effect plays.
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