From the beginning this body's brief was to put human water consumption second to the rivers' environmental health.
Interviewed in a television studio, they were taught to distil complex research ideas into fifteen second snapshots for public consumption.
The Super Bowl is the second-largest food consumption holiday of the year, according to the USDA, behind Thanksgiving and ahead of Christmas Day.
The second reason why significant oil consumption will continue long-term is that viable and economically-sensible alternatives have yet to emerge.
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The second reason is increasing incomes and consumption in the newly industrialising countries.
There is a good argument for this: global oil consumption typically falls in the second quarter.
Rosen cautioned that consumption may slip in the second quarter because so many of the gains in the first quarter came from motor vehicle purchases, but he said that the trend should remain up as long as consumers perceive that future income growth can subsidize current consumption.
Household consumption in Brazil rose 1% in the second quarter, while imports rose 6.1%.
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The second premise, that carbon restrictions are necessary for energy consumption control, belies inherent logic of free market economic incentives to advance conservation economies.
South Korea's private consumption rose by an annualised 14% in the second quarter.
Growth in consumption remains robust, expanding at the fastest pace since the second quarter of 2011.
With consumption remaining stable, Maki expects a 2% drop in the second quarter gross domestic product.
Second, an energy shortage obliged the government to impose rationing aimed at cutting electricity consumption by a fifth.
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Over and above this we get to the second point which is that on pure efficiency grounds we would rather tax property and consumption, possibly even incomes, rather than capital returns.
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The second type of tax reform would replace or supplement the income tax with a broad tax on consumption.
U.S. consumers have already shown to be sensitive to higher prices with total motor gasoline consumption down more than 2 percent on a year-over-year basis during the second quarter.
Second, Stiglitz says that the Fed hopes that lowering interest rates will increase stock values and lead to increased consumption among stockholders.
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