After years of offering only high-power, high-consumption six-, eight-, and 12-cylinder engines, BMW, Land Rover and Mercedes-Benz will start rolling out efficient four-cylinder engines in the United States this year.
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To encourage the answer it wants--and to cut back the country's growing oil imports--Beijing has imposed taxes on high-gas-consumption autos, while adopting European auto emissions standards in 2004.
"The new TS-x12 series Turbo NAS servers offer affordable high performance coupled with ultra-low power consumption and virtually noise-free operation, " said Tony Lu, Product Manager from QNAP.
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The low power-consumption and high transmission rate can better suit the users' goals for upgrade of system performance.
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Water is more popular as Americans reduce consumption of high-calorie soft drinks.
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It takes many resources to produce some foods, especially meat, so minimizing consumption of high-energy input foods is a great way to reduce your ecological footprint.
Consumption of chicken meat in Malaysia is high by global standards, with per-capita consumption around 77 pounds, reflecting in part subsidies and price controls.
The greatest consumption of these high-calorie meals is in low-income neighborhoods where electronic welfare cards are accepted at fast food restaurants.
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Cameras, like the array of printers HP sells, are for the most part a means to an end: driving the consumption of more high-margin printing supplies such as ink cartridges.
It will take a lot of national pain as our economy transitions from a consumption based, high-debt, low-growth debtor nation into a manufacturing and exporting nation once again.
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"If we are to continue economic development and prosperity, we will need to greatly reduce our daily oil consumption, and high-speed rail is the only possible solution that can scale up to meet the growing demand of American mobility while greatly reducing our oil consumption, " said Kunz.
But stabilizing the effects of our unsustainable fossil fuel consumption requires more than high-risk technologies.
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Much of this behavior, which he calls conditioned hyper-eating, is due to brain pathways that are established and reinforced by the regular consumption of highly appealing high-fat, high-sugar, salty foods.
Touch technologies with high transmittance, low power consumption, multi-touch or gesture recognition will benefit the most.
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Both iLoud and iLoud MINI are also equipped with a high-performance Li-Ion rechargeable battery with smart power-management features that reduce its power consumption, making possible to go long periods without recharging, an important factor for mobile users.
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Only on carbon emissions (thanks to rising energy consumption per head) did the high-growth countries do worse than the others.
Before we answer this, one needs to revisit the American Economic Historian W.W. Rostow who in the sixties had suggested that countries passed through 5 stages of economic development as Traditional Society, Transitional Stage, Take-off, Drive to Maturity and High Mass Consumption.
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Research has suggested that total advertising bans can cut consumption by more than 6% in high-income countries.
Commonly known and practiced recommendations to reduce gout attacks have included moderation in alcohol consumption, weight reduction, and decreasing high-purine foods from the diet.
Sweden has a complicated relationship with alcohol - immoderate consumption goes hand in hand with fearsomely high prices, official disapproval and a state monopoly on selling liquor.
The low latency of the SATA 3.0 drive allows it to respond quickly, even with a heavy workload, and its consistently high read speed is ideal for read-intensive applications such as multimedia consumption.
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Although high-income economies can sustain GDP growth with little increase in energy consumption, this is not the case in low- and middle-income economies, which have historically seen energy demand grow in tandem with per capita income growth.
This requires investment in high-end servers, but offers major benefits in terms of reduced power consumption, better performance and reduced space requirements.
Higher prices for fresh fruits and vegetables, the demand for which is elastic, reduces consumption, so consumers get less of the antioxidant, vitamin and high-fiber benefits that these products afford.
Inflation and interest rates were coming down from high levels, household leverage was very, very low, financial innovation non-existent, consumption had been deferred, and demography was coiled as the baby boomers were just coming on line.
The increasing demand for HD content for media consumption and rich formats such as HD DVD and Blu-Ray drives the demand for high capacity disk drives solutions in the end-user market.
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Designed by Creative's in-house team of audio scientists and engineers, Sound Core3D is engineered for low power consumption and high performance.
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Under Chavez, Baduel believes the situation is even worse because of "exorbitant public expenditures, the recurrence of government deficits even at times of record-high oil prices, the extreme vulnerability of foreign investments, exceedingly high import tariffs, and our increased domestic consumption of fuel at laughably low prices".
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