Again, without a culture specific, consumption specific account of risk, the claim is meaningless, a product of the arbitrary weightings of the risk model.

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Governments have shown they can support consumption in specific areas, such as the cash-for-clunkers subsidy in cars or the homebuyers' tax credit.

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Over the last months, Forbes has started to operationalize parts of the The New Newsroom, particularly its feedback components that enable staffers and our expert, topic-specific contributors to better understand audience behavior and consumption patterns.

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As a result of very specific changes to the economic activity and corresponding energy consumption levels, a more granular analyses will be required than is previously provided by traditional load forecasting methods.

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The latest round is that the corn industry wants to change the usual name from HFCS (which has bad connotations now that half the country seems to be blaming it for obesity, something caused by an excess of caloric consumption over caloric use, not any specific foodstuff) to corn sugar.

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CHP, also known as cogeneration, is a specific genre of distributed generation, which is sited at or near the point of consumption.

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This power has been read widely enough that a farmer growing wheat for his own consumption came under Congressional power because wheat itself is traded across state lines, even if his specific wheat was not.

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