If diets worked, all the economic activities that now ride on the back of them, all the emotional hope sold by the magazines and all the diet foods and diet club memberships and weekly dues from repeat customers, would wither away.
The main economic activities of this area are agriculture, tourism, weekend recreation, and sustainable forestry and fishing.
Four percent of the Haitian population lives in the biosphere reserve and the main economic activities are agroforestry, fishery, tourism, and handicraft industry.
The main economic activities are agriculture, fishing and tourism.
Since the oil price fell, fewer and fewer economic activities are receiving the foreign capital they need to operate.
"These global companies are making money in the UK. All we are saying is that if you have economic activities in the UK you are making profits and tax is payable on that, " she said.
Economist Eduardo Marty told the BBC that currency restrictions had been extended to all economic activities, from the export of goods to foreign travel.
And as the Scottish figure already excludes that figure (though it does include the economic activity from the sector's onshore activities), the 'like-for-like' comparison with Scotland shows that its 0.5% growth rate looks half as strong as the UK one.
Large-scale land concessions often generate a planning blight effect, which here refers to the uncertainty and deleterious effects on the social fabric and economic activities in targeted areas once a land allocation decision is made, or once negotiations between government and prospective investors have begun.
The key to this global economic system was the importance placed on commercial activities by Islamic merchants.
The report contends that the main cause of the damage is the growth in the human population and associated economic activities.
We tasked the Economic Ministers and Senior Economic Officials to explore and develop these activities.
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The EU has 320, 000 km of coastline and economic activities at sea or in coastal areas produces 40% of the union's GDP.
Timothy Wallace, a director of a New Jersey supplier to offshore manufacturers, has been following the data for decades to gauge economic activities.
He holds an MBA from a prestigious business school in Brussels and kept his economic activities running throughout the war, looking after family-owned coffee plantations and wood factories.
Under EU law, profits of such CFCs should not be subject to additional taxation in the country of the parent company if the subsidiaries are engaged in genuine economic activities.
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That estimate includes both direct and indirect jobs, and it includes not just a subset of the spending that has to be reported on through recipients, but the full set of Recovery Act activities that are out there in the field creating economic activity so far.
This consists, first, of paying too much attention to the upstream development of new inventions and technologies by scientists and engineers, and too little to the downstream process of turning these inventions into products that tempt people to part with their money, and, second, of the belief that national leadership in upstream activities is the same thing as leadership in generating economic value from innovation.
Thomson Reuters is also kicking off the launch with street marketing efforts in key markets such as Toronto, New York and London, as well as launch activities planned around the World Economic Forum, which begins this Wednesday, in Davos, Switzerland.
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"Schemes using employment guarantees and an emphasis on training could help get jobseekers off the street and into useful activities, providing a safeguard against further economic stress, " lead author of the report Ekkehard Ernst said.
Nor does much standard economic analysis help: It mostly misses the link between advanced economic sectors and what look like anachronistic material economic activities.
"You can rest assured that the state will not interfere in your legitimate economic activities, " he promised potential investors.
The consequences of his activities were not only economic.
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We would prefer to hear politicians reflect our experiences, not those of big business, because even the biggest businesses are surviving by externalizing their economic activities to people like me and you.
The ocean absorbs close to 26 per cent of atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions which is provoking acidification that is already threatening some varieties of plankton and poses a threat to the entire marine food chain and dependant socio-economic activities.
Dave admits that the current economic crisis has also prompted him to look at creative ways of financing the record company's activities and promoting its music.
Our economic situation is a sum total of all the activities and perspectives of businesses, citizens, investors, and governments.
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Seidemann, a tenured professor of geology, quit the union in a dispute with leadership over its non-economic activities.
Challenges include the integration of social, cultural and economic aspects into existing environmental education activities and contexts.
The answer is that for policy makers whose survival depends on economic recovery, few activities have such direct, intense and immediate positive economic impact as new home construction.
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