The Chinese, who already have massive inflation to contend with and do not need increased oil prices pumped through their manufacturing intensive economy.
Investing in green measures and green technology is actually good for the economy because a green economy is an incredibly labour intensive economy.
The conventional wisdom about the economic and political rise of women is that an information intensive economy prizes the cultural and neurological traits of women more than men.
Brookings says the clean economy is twice as export intensive as the national economy, which has a big impact on global competitiveness.
The failure is that, ten years after the lean times began, no government has introduced the sort of broad reforms that are needed to take the economy out of intensive care.
Nor, for that matter, have they talked the German economy into any need of intensive care.
The world economy is much less oil-intensive than it used to be.
It was largely agreed that while the treatment plan would reduce the deficit, if all the prescriptions were taken at once, the economy could overdose and return to intensive care.
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Given the tremendous investment in developing this aircraft which is so critical to their future business, the state-of-art upgrades to standard design which enhance both economy and reliability, and the intensive ongoing reviews to ensure complete airworthiness, the traveling public has every reason to have confidence that their flight security will be well protected.
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And America's economy is becoming ever less energy-intensive, and less dependent on imports.
Energy-intensive industries are an important part of the UK economy.
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Thinking differently starts by recognizing that the US economy actually advances by becoming more knowledge-intensive.
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Many investments were in capital-intensive industries quite unsuited to a labour-rich agricultural economy.
One is external to the state: the global economy has become a much more knowledge-intensive place, with even the oil business turning into a high-tech industry, so Texas needs more and better universities and schools.
Absenteeism is down and productivity is up at the two plants where the new work schedule has gone into effect. (A third plant will be converted early next year.) The economy benefits, too: With its more intensive use of machinery, IEC has added 950 workers, and product is being shipped out the door faster.
Recently, for a consulting client, I did a rough comparison between their customer base (which tended to be young, information-intensive companies) and a benchmark comparison set from the mainstream economy.
Nigeria's former military rulers failed to diversify the economy away from its overdependence on the capital-intensive oil sector, which provides 95% of foreign exchange earnings and about 80% of budgetary revenues.
But decentralisation, deregulation and a huge infrastructure boom have boosted demand for power, and China's economy is now becoming more, not less, energy-intensive.
In the digital economy, regular and systematic monitoring of user activity allows companies to make intensive use of data in all sorts of ways.
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And in the 21st Century, IP-intensive industries like technology, advanced manufacturing and biopharmaceuticals will play an increasingly dominant role in our economy.
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