If you slow down the rate of consumption you will take in fewer calories.
It all puts our present rate of consumption into frightening perspective.
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It is no coincidence that the Philippines has the highest rate of consumption (about 80% of GDP) in emerging Asia but one of the lowest growth rates.
Legislation to increase the country's rate of consumption tax, enacted last August, states that the government must try to achieve nominal economic growth of about 3 per cent and real growth of about 2 per cent -- implying inflation of about 1 per cent -- before going ahead with the tax hikes.
Then, to show the potential long-term physical toll of drinking, the app shows them a photo of how they might look in 10 years at their current rate of alcohol consumption.
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Czechs have the highest rate of alcohol consumption among children aged 13 to 15 in Europe, a rate that is also higher than that in the U.S. and Canada, according to the World Health Organization.
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Even in the face of a Great Depression, a World War, a Cold War, recessions, oil shocks, inflation and unemployment, Congress never sought to require the purchase of wheat or war bonds, force a higher savings rate or greater consumption of American goods, or require every American to purchase a more fuel efficient vehicle.
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The estimated one billion people who live in developed countries have a relative per capita consumption rate of 32.
His crucial revenue-raising decision was to increase the main rate of VAT, a consumption tax, from 17.5% to 20% in January 2011.
Turkmenistan also has a population of only about 5 million, and little real domestic industrial activity, which means that the domestic demand for this energy is quite low, at a consumption rate of 21 bcm in 2009.
The optimal level of investment is the rate that generates the highest sustainable level of consumption over time.
In the final three months of 2004, household consumption grew at a quarterly rate of only 0.2%.
Finalize proposals for tax and social security system reform before the end of FY 2011, including raising the consumption tax rate to 17 percent and basic pension benefits of 70, 000 yen per month for all persons 65 years and older.
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You can think of it as the interest rate that will induce you to put off a dollar of current consumption for a dollar plus interest next year.
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The rising rate of breast cancer diagnosis has been put down to a variety of factors including obesity and alcohol consumption.
Over the ensuing decades, consumption of fat by Americans duly decreased, sugar and sweetener consumption went up, and the obesity rate has more than doubled.
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Many economic arguments are about tradeoffs, but the argument for the zero tax rate of savings, also similar to the arguments for a consumption tax, is usually phrased as an argument about fairness.
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What really matters is total world consumption, the sum of all local consumptions, which is the product of local population times the local per capita consumption rate.
Over the last decade, it says in its most recent annual filing, consumption here has grown at a compound annual growth rate of 7%.
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In Finland, SMS consumption of iPhone owners declined at a -20% rate over the same time period.
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Put a 25 percent tax rate on individuals and corporations and see how it comes out in terms of personal consumption expenditures and corporate spending for plant and equipment, even research and development.
Since the old, who have shorter time horizons, have larger propensities to consume than do the young, this transfer has fueled a huge increase in personal consumption, reducing our national saving rate (saving as a share of national income) from 10 to 15% in the 1950s and 60s to a negative 1.5% last year.
That year a new manager took over and instituted a tiered system of payment: If your household consumption was not more than 7.5 cubic meters per month (this would take care of water required for drinking, cooking and some hygienic needs of an average family of eight), you paid a subsidized rate, but if your monthly consumption was more, you paid a market rate.
Real personal consumption, reported by the Commerce Department, grew at an annualized rate of 3.2% in the first quarter of 2002.
The low power-consumption and high transmission rate can better suit the users' goals for upgrade of system performance.
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Even if the recovery rate is doubled or quadrupled, it would take care of perhaps two years of current US consumption.
Consumption of bottled spirits in China has increased at a compound annual growth rate of 20 percent over the past five years, according to data from the National Statistics Bureau.
We expect 1.7% growth in real personal consumption expenditures in the four quarters ending September 2008 even under our soft-landing scenario, below the 2% four-quarter low in the 2001 recession (see graph and further discussion in the attachment.) In recent years, we predicted and explained the resilience in U.S. consumption growth in terms of job prospects and the high actual household savings rate.
Squeezing down current consumption and encouraging maximum saving and investment produces a higher growth rate and higher standard of living some time in the future.
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