Any change in demand would, of course, have ramifications for the businesses sported by it.
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Many builders that previously worked entirely on single-family homes in the suburbs have refocused to keep up with what they say is a change in demand.
As we have not experienced a change in demand from existing customers, we anticipate that most of the revenue corresponding to our reduced guidance will be shifted into 2013.
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This was due to rebuilding HDD manufacturing capacity but also to what appears to be a fundamental change in the demand for HDDs, particularly for notebook computers.
So, OK, change the cost of provision: does that change the demand in the market at any particular price level?
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"We saw a real change in the industry demand in pickups and SUVs in the first two weeks of May, " Ford chief executive Alan Mulally said Thursday.
If food demand or supply has a very low elasticity with respect to price in the short term then when we have only a minor change in supply and or demand then we will see large changes in food prices.
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According to Sam Walsh, the board is likely to approve the proposal, barring a significant change in the supply-demand situation by then or a major increase in production costs.
Ali Rodriguez Araque, OPEC's secretary-general, has pointed out that the change in price is not the result of any change in the balance of supply and demand for oil, and he also said that OPEC has no intention of manipulating the price or supply of oil for political reasons.
So if demand at a price changes but available supply does not then it is price which will change in order to balance supply and demand.
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Japan owes its change in fortunes to booming export demand from China and other fast-growing Asian countries.
These changes, I believe, demand a change in the conventional portfolio wisdom.
Communities and local civil society organizations need to be actively involved in decision-making in order to generate bottom up demand for change and hold governments to account for public investment in water and sanitation.
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As a fashion-driven business, the industry is subject to dramatic swings in demand as tastes change.
The inability of European authorities to deal with the galloping the debt crisis may change consumer demand outlook pretty drastically in coming months.
No demand for a change in the economic structure, for example?
It turns out that these are all climate-driven employment areas, too -- trends that will grow in demand as climates change because our urban plant life will have greater demands placed on it.
Japan imports nearly all of its oil and natural gas consumption, and the earthquake, having wreaked havoc on select nuclear power facilities, will likely result in a sustained change in the composition of Japanese energy demand, including an increased demand for oil and some refined products.
Because the inverse of supply and or demand not changing very much when prices change is that prices change a lot in response to only small changes in supply and or demand.
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Americans are today where Tea Party supporters were a year ago: They want and demand a sea-change in how Washington spends our money.
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Some thought BHP Billiton's decision was evidence of China's change in growth expectations beginning to impact global demand, and other economies as a whole.
Who has the time, and what is the benefit, of planning in a world of continuous change, demand-driven marketing, and intense pressure for instantaneous responses?
One explanation for the abrupt change of mood is that weaker demand in the currency zone's main foreign markets have at last started to hurt the economy.
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Oftel, the telecoms regulator, says it cannot predict how demand in certain areas will change.
But my personal belief is that cheaper computers in the long term will not change demand.
Indeed, Uber passengers do not know the final cost of the ride until after it is over because the service not only takes into account the distance and duration of the trip, but also uses dynamic pricing in which rates change depending on supply and demand conditions.
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The term inelastic simply refers to a good whose demand is relatively unresponsive to a change in price.
Gas prices should adjust because of a change in the forces driving the underlying supply of or demand for oil, not because stock prices are at a historic high.
Top CFOs have tried to reinvent themselves as the boss's "strategic partner", pulling back from day-to-day counting of beans, and focusing more on how demand and supply of beans may change in the future.
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