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consumption
consumption in economics, direct utilization of goods and services by consumers, not including the use of means of production, such as machinery and factories (see capital ). Consumption can be divided into public and private sectors. Consumption is also viewed as a basically subjective... Read more |
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Soft drinks
Soft Drink Background Soft drinks are enormously popular beverages consisting primarily of carbonated water, sugar, and flavorings. Nearly 200 nations enjoy the sweet, sparkling soda with an annual consumption of more than 34 billion gallons. Soft drinks rank as America's... Read more |
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Chain stores
CHAIN STORES CHAIN STORES are groups of retail stores engaged in the same general field of business that operate under the same ownership or management. Chain stores have come to epitomize the vertically integrated big businesses of modern mass distribution, and their strategies have shaped mass... Read more |
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liquor laws
liquor laws legislation designed to restrict, regulate, or totally abolish the manufacture, sale, and use of alcoholic beverages. The passage of liquor laws has been prompted chiefly by the desire to prevent immoderate use of intoxicants, but sometimes also by the need to raise revenue. Direct... Read more |
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Consumption (Economics)
Consumption FunctionKeynes’s “propensity to consume”The postwar reappraisalBIBLIOGRAPHYEconomists have long been interested in the factors determining how a society divides its income proportionally between consumption and saving. In the past thirty years theoretical and empirical investigation of... Read more |
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Battle of Catterick
Catterick, battle of, 6th cent. Aneurin's poem Gododdin relates how the North Britons from Edinburgh were defeated at Catterick by the men of Bernicia and Deira. He attributed their downfall to an immoderate consumption of mead. The battle was probably in the late 6th cent. It has been suggested... Read more |
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Offshore Oil
OFFSHORE OIL OFFSHORE OIL and gas development in the United States since the mid-1970s has responded largely to pressures from two sources: the efforts of the federal government to reduce dependence on foreign oil and efforts by environmentalists and conservationists to reduce energy consumption,... Read more |
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Flour mills
FLOUR MILLING Technology FLOUR MILLING American colonists in the seventeenth century introduced European grains along the eastern seaboard from Virginia to Massachusetts, built the first windmills and water mills, and developed New York as a milling and marketing center for flour. Until the... Read more |
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mutton
mutton flesh of mature sheep prepared as food (as opposed to the flesh of young sheep, which is known as lamb). Mutton is deep red with firm, white fat. In Middle Eastern countries it is a staple meat, but in the West, with the exception of Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand, mutton and lamb... Read more |
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Research and Markets: Explore Mobile Home Manufacturing Industry in the U.S....
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Research and Markets: Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control...
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Research and Markets Report: Game, Toy, and Children's Vehicle Manufacturing...
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Research and Markets Reports on the American Primary Battery Manufacturing...
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Despite year-end slump, machine tool installations grew: last year survey:...
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The World Machine Tool Output & Consumption Survey: global metalworking...
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Global metalworking factory investment grows.(The World Machine Tool Output &...
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World machine tool output drops one-third: survey: equipment producers just...
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The World Machine Tool Output & Consumption Survey: American factories...
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