After the cultivation of more than 3 billion acres of genetically engineered crops worldwide in some three dozen countries and the consumption in North America alone of more than three trillion servings of foods that contain ingredients from them, there has not been a single documented case of injury to a person or disruption of an ecosystem.
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Reducing them from 17 to five can cut salt consumption by three quarters.
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Crane devised a new measure of energy consumption: a three-dimensional unit he called a cubic mile of oil.
Even better, to lower all three and increase taxes on consumption.
Step three is to adjust your consumption habits.
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In the final three months of 2004, household consumption grew at a quarterly rate of only 0.2%.
The risk of a gout attack continued to decrease with increasing cherry consumption, up to three servings over two days.
Denmark, Netherlands, and Ireland went unscathed, recording no drop in consumption, while in Finland, Sweden and the UK there were small increases in consumption by up to three percent.
Cembalest points out three main risks: inflation, how consumption is financed, and structural impediments to growth.
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According to the Central Statistics Bureau, private consumption accounts for close to three-quarters of GDP, up from two-thirds in 1997.
Mexico has enormous reserves of gas, probably as much as 63 trillion cubic feet (roughly three years of U.S. consumption).
These three props look strong enough to prevent tumbling consumption triggering a deep recession.
Average UK consumption of fruit and vegetables is three portions a day - two fewer the recommended amount.
French consumption of beef plunged last year when three supermarket chains said they had sold beef from a herd containing an animal infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), otherwise known as mad cow disease.
Corporate restructuring is going to happen over a two-to-three-year period, so the employment situation and consumption outlook aren't positive.
All three of its legs--exports, investment and consumption--have been slowing in recent months.
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Over that period, meat consumption in developing countries rose five-fold, three times as fast as in developed countries.
More than three-quarters of the Honduran population's daily calorie consumption comes from maize and beans, and Mitch destroyed an estimated 60% of these crops.
What would more likely happen is that devices would be replaced on a typical three-year refresh cycle with those that feature low power consumption.
China's per capita consumption (2, 456 units) is more than three times that of India.
The USDA said Wednesday the U.S. supply of soybeans will decline by Aug. 31 to 140 million bushels, a reserve equal to 4.2% of annual consumption, which would be the tightest level in about three decades.
Partially because of those high consumption taxes, prices for luxury cars are often two or three times as much as in America.
Private consumption grew 1% in the first quarter from the previous three month, while the construction sector continued to decline, contracting by 1%.
Private automobiles now account for more than half of all U.S. oil consumption, and the transportation sector as a whole uses almost three-quarters.
Those three businesses have built impressive market share by recognizing how patterns of entertainment consumption are shifting away from programmed, scheduled packages and toward on-demand, a la carte snacking and making it easy for consumers to incorporate that shift into their own lives.
If its results affirmed GM as the healthiest of the wounded Big Three domestic manufacturers, they will probably not please environmental groups concerned about oil consumption as the country fights a war in Central Asia.
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