The gas siblings pay a substantial fuel economy penalty, but the rush is worth it, in my opinion.
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The premise that national top-down regulation of the economy brings substantial net benefits dominates public policy.
It had been somewhere between 20 and 30 years since we had a substantial improvement in fuel economy.
This does indeed take substantial time and the economy destroys around and about 10% of all jobs every year.
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Now, through the Lockheed Martin Silicon Valley Alliance, we can help to reconnect today's companies to that market, which continues to be substantial despite a challenging economy.
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Absent substantial growth in our economy it is likely the Federal Reserve will hold this debt (and perhaps additional debt from another infusion through Quantitative Easing) for an indefinite period of time.
And in dollar terms, given the loss of productivity suffered by the Brazilian economy given substantial appreciation in their currency, unit labor costs have grown by 110% since 2005. (Read No Credit Bubble In Brazil, Just Dangerous Consumer Debt Burden).
In much the same way, lawyers and accountants surely make up a substantial percentage of our economy too, but as facilitators of economic growth, as opposed to producers, reform that reduces their role in the economy could hardly be seen as a bad thing.
None of these produce a quick and substantial return to a healthy economy.
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"A substantial portion of the global economy looks better now than it did a year ago, " Ms Lagarde said.
The exception that doesn't really prove the rule is Ireland, because Lloyds' loans to the Irish economy are very substantial.
So they end up having a substantial impact on the overall economy.
So it is consistent with the view that, even after excluding import costs and taxes, there are at present substantial cost pressures in the economy.
That is why it was heartening news that last month, for the first time in more than two years, our economy created a substantial number of jobs, instead of losing them.
Chan, Chase Private Client chief economist, was worried about the declining labor participation rate, which helped push down the unemployment rate, yet is an indication the economy still faces substantial obstacles.
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While temporary factors such as the incredibly high price of oil and substantial supply chain disruptions are expected to pass, the second half of the year still has to face substantial headwinds as the global economy stalls. (Read Economy Moving At Snail Speed, ISM, Jobs Report Show).
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On the other hand, if the legislation turns out to be misguided -- or if it is weakened too much in the congressional negotiations -- and fails to stimulate the economy or provide substantial relief to struggling states and unemployed workers, then this bill could become an albatross for Obama and Democrats.
We learned that the economy actually produced a substantial number of jobs instead of losing a substantial number of jobs.
Over the past seven years, we see the economy has successfully responded to substantial challenges, including a recession that began in 2000, terrorist attacks, corporate scandals, wars, and devastating natural disasters.
If you look, by the way, at Iran's place in the wake of the Arab Spring and the cost that they've paid for the choices and decisions their leaders have made here, not being able to assure the world that they're engaged in peaceful nuclear activities, it's been substantial -- with respect to their economy, with respect to their political isolation.
State enterprises, considered the core of the economy, would bitterly fight any substantial increase in their cost of capital.
"The Treasury believes this facility is necessary to prevent substantial disruptions to the financial markets and the economy, " the Fed said Tuesday.
"We are a week further and substantial damage has been inflicted on the Cypriot economy, " said Dutch Deputy Finance Minister Frans Weekers as he arrived in Brussels.
If real estate collapses and the resulting banking crisis affects the rest of the economy, there will be a substantial drop in the demand for raw materials, with a corresponding fall in exports from countries that produce and export raw materials, and in OECD exports to emerging middle classes.
The researchers said states are struggling with substantial budget shortfalls, a consequence of the lagging economy.
Besides the obvious economic benefits of increasing the number of highly educated people in an emerging economy, the plan could also have substantial practical benefits.
Worse, in the networked economy that we live in, a substantial part of a product's value derives from compatibility--the ability to seamlessly exchange data with others using the same system.
There is, of course, wariness over the impact of sequestration and substantial disagreement over the future course of the US economy, but I read an awful lot of economic commentary and the general discourse has shifted out of crisis-mode to business as usual.
The European economy continues to face formidable difficulties, posing substantial threats to both the global economic outlook and the stability of financial markets.
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