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With only a slight lag, complexity became manageable, and global supply chains’ linear model (something produced in country A is consumed in country B) gave way to a more complex model with more fragmented but more efficient supply networks.
It also has the distinct disadvantage of not working at night, when much electricity is consumed.
It is only faith in the idea that our lives matter, and that our decisions must be judged by their moral content, that we in Ukraine, and elsewhere, will be able to find our way out of the misery, unhappiness, and despair that has consumed us over the last two years.
As in recent years, he consumed at or above his income level, and the United States as a whole spent well beyond its means, borrowing from the rest of the world at a feverish pace in 2005 – more than $2 billion a day.
Examples include a five-year-long moratorium on approvals of GM plants throughout Europe, and the rejection of badly needed food aid by several African countries--only because it contains the same GM varieties of grain consumed routinely in North America.
Russia, "the hereditary enemy," now seems far away and consumed by its domestic troubles.
As the low hanging fruit from catch-up growth is consumed, China, too, will be forced to choose between the economic and social freedom, innovation, and instability that only inclusive institutions can underpin and continued economic, political, and social control in the service of the elites who control the state.
In the European Union, electricity-generating plants alone account for 44% of all freshwater consumed each year; in the United States, that figure is 41%.
That expenditure might not be very large, but it adds to the high proportion of European military spending already consumed by each country’s defense ministry, separate headquarters for each service, and plethora of supporting bureaucracies.
But despite being calorically identical (4.1 calories per gram), they behave very differently when consumed.
Studies of the Balkan wars and the many wars that consumed Afghanistan during the 1990's have been launched through international organisations like the United Nations Environment Progam (UNEP).
Suddenly, good Russian products are everywhere, while Moscow used to import 80% of the goods it consumed daily.
But the reasons why they killed lie within them, and cannot be principally attributed to the entertainment or other materials that they consumed.
In 2005, the US imported 60% of the energy that it consumed.
Subsequent epidemiological studies in the NCJDSU indicate that individuals with variant CJD are likely to have consumed more meat products than control patients, further supporting a link between these disorders.
In 1674, English women issued a petition against coffee, alleging that it caused sterility and thus should be consumed only by people over 60 – a very small market at the time.
A decade later, US-liberated Iraq remains stuck in a low-intensity civil war, just as French-protected Mali is consumed by volatility and NATO-rescued Libya remains mired in chaos.
Nor is it the coaching received or the energy bar consumed just before the event.
Meeting those objectives will require both an improvement in energy productivity (the amount of income produced per unit of energy consumed) of at least 3% per year and the rapid decarbonization of energy supply, with the share of zero-carbon energy increasing by at least one percentage point each year.
Many imagine a continent consumed by poverty, war, desperation, corruption and failure.
Iraq’s Anti-Christian PogromsThe world is consumed by fears that Iraq is degenerating into a civil war between Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds.
Unwilling to confront that issue, the eurozone authorities are consumed with tweaking trivialities like the degree of “flexibility” in the fiscal rules and the ECB’s dubious plan to purchase asset-backed securities.
Instead, the administration faced issues that were completely unforeseen, including Afghanistan and Iraq, and that consumed it for the next eight years.
The Atlantic Basin ran an oil surplus – producing more than it consumed – for the first time in a half-century, while the Pacific Basin became the only dumping ground for crude.
The trouble is that most religious texts consumed today in the Arab world address an audience of specialists that no longer exists and – as Riesman warned – they are often misconstrued.
Consumed with their test of wills, they are unable to make well-informed and nuanced decisions in their dealings with outsiders.
Russia must rid itself, once and for all, of Putinism’s systemic corruption, lest the country be consumed by it.
Instead of focusing on how best to position itself in this shifting landscape, Poland – and Europe – is consumed with one politician’s delusional obsession.
Corruption on every level of the state bureaucracy is evident, while the state has consumed the economy’s oil revenue with little to show for it in terms of investment or improved services.
And yet he neither broke nor surrendered to the rage that would have consumed most people.
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