But consumers also have an indirect water footprint and this is usually much larger than the direct one.
There are up to a dozen possible routes, and the direct one versus the scenic one versus the loop-de-loop versus the dead end changes from person to person.
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Staff at the centre will then direct the call to one, or all, of the required emergency services - police, ambulance and fire and rescue.
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"The only direct witness is one of the victims, and he is uncertain whether the shooter was alone or had an accomplice, " Captain Brooks said in an interview.
He could pursue an initial public offering of stock or the sale of a direct stake, one of the people said.
With the acquisition of ING Direct, Capital One has become the fifth largest consumer bank by deposit behind Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo.
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If it holds up, the latest finding would be one of the first direct observations of the very early stages of a planet's birth.
While the overall net liability to the consumer is usually about the same, with a credit card one can limit the direct impact.
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The dollar you spent using your debit card at a restaurant tonight is identifiably the same one your employer direct-deposited in your account last week, which is precisely the same dollar that your employer collected electronically from its client last month.
This is perhaps the most direct threat, one that police say Dorner has carried out already.
In some cases direct sales has earned a weak reputation, while on the flip side Warren Buffett has called his stake in direct sales company The Pampered Chef one of the best investments he ever made.
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The move to end 27 years of direct rule, is one of the key parts of the Good Friday Agreement peace accord.
The transaction will give ING Group around a 9.9% stake in the combined company of Capital One and ING Direct USA, making them the largest shareholder.
And it was one of the principles -- the Recovery Act had many components, but one was to provide direct relief to states to stop the hemorrhaging of jobs in areas like public schools and police and fire departments.
So instead of using resources to lobby for a new federal law that lowers the threshold, the NTSB should direct its influence on helping states enforce the current one.
Respectable bicameral democracies around the world confine direct election to one chamber only.
Person-to-Person (P2P) mobile payments that involve the direct transfer of funds from one person to another using a mobile device.
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The NX300's enhanced Wi-Fi connectivity also lets users share images with friends and family directly from the camera via social networking sites using the cameras one-touch DIRECT LINK hot key.
"If the IRS thinks it is important enough to warn you, you had better pay attention, " says Slott. (Taxpayers still have the option on Form 1040 of direct deposit into only one account, but some of the warnings on the 8888 apply if that one account is an IRA).
The third method is to simply replace the old currency with a new one, which has no direct relationship to the old.
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At any rate, study of the petitions makes one sympathetic to the view of the Founders that direct democracy was maybe not such a hot idea.
One great way to do this is by providing customers direct access to the knowledge foundation created in step one so they can find the information they need whenever they want it.
The founders of aQuantive, Amazon, Dell and Expedia have backed Qliance, one of the pioneers of the direct primary care model.
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But one business school is taking a more direct route by actually studying one of the globe's true pleasures -- Champagne.
The purchase made Ispat one of the world's largest producers of direct-reduced iron, at 7 million tons a year.
Iran offers one of the most direct export routes, particularly for Turkmen gas.
Category one refers to the direct Olympic budget, covering costs like the athlete's village, transportation and the opening ceremonies.
One of the most direct examples is an exchange-traded fund, the iShares Lehman 1-3 Year Treasury Bond (amex: SHY).
Not since 1989 have two elite English soccer clubs in direct competition for the title faced one another so late in the season.
The development of high-speed trains across Europe encourages direct travel from one city centre to another, reinforcing the appeal of living and working near the centre.
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