As an initial matter, it would take years for Beijing to reorient its economy from exporting to consumption.
The amount of vitamin E consumed by stroke participants before their strokes was compared to consumption by healthy participants.
In an ideal world the tax burden would be gradually shifted from income to consumption (including a carbon tax).
Investigators had traced it to consumption of fresh raw spinach sold in bags.
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As a consequence, overall supply in 1973 actually increased relative to consumption.
People like Steve Roach were worried about an economy based on asset bubbles leading to consumption bubbles that were unsustainable.
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Hasbro found itself, then, with the pleasant headache of managing a well-heeled subculture dedicated to consumption and buzz-marketing their brand.
The single most important reason for the downgrade to consumption growth in 2005 was weaker spending on household durables like freezers.
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What we should look at is what's happening to consumption, what's happening to housing, what's happening to big sectors like autos.
These are all things that, when you see them on the ground, you recognize that there is a cost to consumption.
He believes there will soon be a shift to consumption-led growth, something he has been predicting for quite a while.
In truth, the flight to the real signaled a rush to consumption (housing is consumption) at the expense of the productive economy.
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For example, we could use an average of several years' income or, better yet, scale the AMaxT limit to consumption rather than income.
When it comes to consumption, it looks like this: the European Union, the United States, Brazil, Japan, Russia, Canada, Ethiopia, and the Philippines.
These immaculate shrines to consumption contain all manner of raw and prepared foods, ranging from fresh baby sardines on ice to delicately scented lavender-and-vanilla macaroons.
Traditionally, commodity producers have looked to consumption in U.S. and Europe.
If both these wealth effects turn negative, the blow to consumption could be severe, and the current recession could be deeper than most economists now forecast.
The U.S. is the world's biggest cotton exporter, but U.S. and foreign supplies relative to consumption are getting the tightest they have been since the mid-1990s.
It was not until March 1996 that Mr Dorrell told the Commons a new strain of CJD had emerged, probably linked to consumption of infected beef.
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The paper said U.S. fiscal policies had helped the recovery but the tax measures appeared to have only modestly shifted the tax burden from income to consumption.
If the global downturn forces China to switch the mix of growth from exports to consumption, it would also help to make its future growth more sustainable.
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On China, Soros says the country has to change its economic model from depending on export-led growth to consumption-led growth, and that that transition is already underway.
As I discuss in my book, New Emerging Japanese Economy: Opportunity and Strategy for World Business, the Japanese government shifted its economic priorities from exports to consumption and imports.
For the two richest men in the U.S. to monetize their wealth in order to support charities is for them to oversee the conversion of production goods to consumption goods.
Cheap natural gas can also drag down the price of oil--albeit with a lag, since it takes a while to bring gas wells online or to convert some petroleum consumption to gas consumption.
If you control the entire distribution channel from raw material to retail you might only get hit with the tax twice in going from orignial production to consumption as opposed to multiple times.
In addition, as I discussed in my book, New Emerging Japanese Economy: Opportunity and Strategy for World Business, Japan shifted its economic priorities from exports to consumption and imports that eventually yielded the desired results.
He experiments with raising the ratio of investment to consumption, changing the nature and conditions of investment and shifting the balance from private to public spending, while staying within tight constraints on the use of resources.
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