"Major airports have transformed considerably in the last decade to accommodate the shift in the amount of time travelers spend there, " said Barry Liben, CEO of Travel Leaders Group, in a press statement.
If Apple only moves production of one segment of its Macintosh product line, as reports indicate, the total shift in COGS could amount to less than 1 percent in 2013.
Research under way at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development suggests that the amount of the shift could itself be exaggerated.
The Bank of Japan has been grappling with unexpected swings in the government bond market since early April, when its new governor, Haruhiko Kuroda, announced a drastic shift in policy aimed at doubling the amount of cash circulating in Japan's economy.
Taken together, fans, players and team executives say the changes amount to a subtle but significant shift in the club's approach to team-building.
This dramatic shift in consumer behaviour has seen the average amount of data used by contract customers each month soar to 1.1 gigabytes (GB).
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The amount of heat transported by the system would shift, but could not become zero.
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It was mainly driven by a gradual shift in Earth's orbit, which changed the amount of sunlight falling on different parts of the globe.
In my native UK we already pay green taxes of about this amount: all we need to do is shift around the taxes we already pay.
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Scaling them back would improve the economy's efficiency and would free up a huge amount of money, both to reduce the deficit and to shift resources to poorer Americans.
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Instead, policymakers continue to replace old debt with new debt, shift it from the private to the public sector, and increase the amount of base money in the system to fill the gaps in both bank and government balance sheets.
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The Bank of England describes its actions in monetary terms: by expanding the amount of money in the hands of the public, some people will shift to riskier assets such as stocks and bonds, raising wealth and spurring investment.
Other than rising oil prices, the reason for this shift is that new and controversial technologies such as fracking and horizontal drilling have multiplied the amount of viable deposits in unexpected places.
Michael Kirven, the boss of Bluewolf, one such advisory firm, says that because Amazon and other providers have made it so easy for companies to shift their services to the cloud, some customers have been lulled into thinking they don't need the same amount of backup protection as they would elsewhere.
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