We will most likely see international trade decline further until China embarks upon the path to becoming a service and consumption-based economy at which point the West will begin to export in a big way.
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Based on a rebound in auto sales and stronger service spending, real consumption hit its highest level since December 2009.
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The entire project yielded nothing of value, nothing for consumption or service.
But he is urging them to liberalise their own service industries, which should boost consumption.
As part of its Digital Service Efficiency effort to reduce power consumption in its data centers, eBay slightly changed some of its software code so that the code would require less memory.
In addition to focusing on education and clean energy, China is also seeking to shift from export-led growth to more domestic consumption supported by a growing service-sector economy.
It's a goal the government supports, according to its twelfth five-year plan (2011-2015), which calls for an increase in domestic consumption and growth of the service sector by four percentage points.
Those investors, given their media consumption habits, would presumably be interested in a service like Merrill Edge.
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And it said that more cycling, alongside less meat consumption, would help reduce the costs to the health service and the economy more widely of Scotland's obesity problems.
In addition to scanning the code of an app, the service will watch for fishy behavior such as excess battery drain and abnormal resource consumption.
If it succeeds, the higher consumption of data in the home would also boost Cisco's business with service providers.
Nate Blecharczyk cofounder and CTO of Airbnb said that regulation should be different for collaborative consumption services because owners of homes or cars are usually the ones providing the service.
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With the right app, service or device, it's never been easier to track our personal finances, home energy use, media consumption, calorific intake or miles walked.
There's no live programming -- just a database of show episodes and movies that you have your choice of either streaming or downloading for later consumption over 3G or WiFi -- which makes it a little bit like using an on-demand service from your cable company.
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