By customer value propositions, I mean the total sum of benefits the customer receives from buying a product.

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Our gross domestic product -- the sum total of all that our economy produces -- fell at the fastest rate in a quarter century.

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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.

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The sum is the equivalent of Hungary's annual gross domestic product.

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In sum, our flu season this year is simply a product of poor timing.

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