| Apart from a temporary, minor surge in the sale of motor vehicles, expenditures on consumer durables were flat over the year. |
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| It is not just demand for consumer durables that has been warped by Iraq's strange new economy. |
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| While the shop was willing to take the durables back, it has yet not replaced nor refunded the equipment. |
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| As a result, investment plus consumer durables actually increased as a percent of GDP despite a clear-cut inward shift in the demand curve. |
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| Russia still manufactures a large range of consumer products, including food, clothing, automobiles, and household durables. |
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| The area is known for extensive trading in livestock, hides and skins, khat, cereals, and consumer durables. |
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| Sales and inventories are reported monthly and include total sales of durables and retail sales. |
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| According to Table 5, the elasticities of inventory to sales are 0.947 and 1.041 for durables and non-durables respectively. |
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| I'm outmoded in this city of nouveau riche values and consumer durables. |
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| This development came after the company found that after-sales service has become a sore point with consumers purchasing consumer electronics and durables in the market. |
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| Spending on housing and consumer durables has been much stronger than expected. |
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| Many Canadians buy a home, furniture, automobiles and other consumer durables that provide consumption services during their retirement years. |
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| Research has shown that this threshold is where the demand for consumer durables can increase significantly. |
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| Two basic cost items are considered, the value of labor inputs and the value of capital services from consumer durables. |
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| Sharing space with the sweet and sugary stuff will be all kinds of inedible things from consumer durables and garments to furniture and lifestyle products. |
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| With the focus, by and large, turning to door delivery, in the case of consumer durables as well as perishables, the location factor has been obscured. |
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| Anyhow, the lags stem from things like product-replacement cycles for durables, and the time taken from planning a project to the time of its implementation. |
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| Normally, demand for durables tumbles just before a downturn, as it did in the late 1970s and late 1980s when people started to defer large purchases. |
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| The manufacturing growth has been jobless because it is based on capital-intensive investment to mostly produce durables such as cars, washing machines, and dishwashers. |
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| All that has to be done is to breakdown the tables on ownership of consumer and producer durables by wealth level and one has controlled for the under-representation. |
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| Stiff competition in various categories of durables and among firms which make items of daily consumption, means that no great price hikes are anticipated. |
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| Nondurable goods represent a larger share of aggregate consumption than durables, but the share has been falling over time. |
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| Certainly, survey results from the European Commission Consumer Surveys confirmed the positive climate of opinion as regards the purchase of durables. |
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| With regard to expenditure in respect of the depreciation of consumer durables, the Commission accepted the principle of linear depreciation over the project's period of implementation. |
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| Consumer product brushes are used in power tools like drills, in vacuum cleaners, electric shavers, mixers and many other domestic appliances and consumer durables. |
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| Such lending serves in particular to finance the purchase of consumer durables which are not made in Austria but are imported from other Member States, such as motor vehicles. |
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| As the economic results for the second half of 1996 show, and the more recent monthly indicators confirm, there have been substantial increases in spending on housing, motor vehicles and other consumer durables. |
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| Low interest rates stimulate demand in interest-sensitive areas such as consumer durables and housing, as well as encouraging investment in new capital, new technologies, education and skills. |
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| The company serves the building and construction, information technology, machinery and equipment, consumer durables, transportation, electrical, automotive and other industry sectors. |
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| Financing for the purchase of consumer durables, from nearly 350 participating merchants in retail sales sectors such as furnishings and computers, repaid by equal monthly payments over a term of 3 to 48 months. |
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| In particular, growth remained very strong after the first half of 1998 in consumer durables production, but declined in the intermediate goods sector. |
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| Higher interest rates, while providing better returns on savings, can lead to a decline in exports and can dampen the housing and consumer durables sectors of the economy. |
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| Investment is still playing the dominant role but the most recent consumer and retail surveys are indicating that the demand for consumer durables is likely to rise. |
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| But it is also possible that some of the recent strength in spending on consumer durables may have been borrowed from the future, so that the growth of household expenditures may be weaker than expected. |
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| This recovery stems from an increase in spending on previously postponed purchases of consumer durables and a fall in the savings ratio as the economic climate improves and confidence picks up. |
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| The introduction of euro notes and coins, then, also brings visible successes for consumers: prices for consumer durables, such as cars, will fall. |
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| In addition to carbon fixing, local authorities need to work to maintain on-site any possible transformation of accumulated biomass into consumer durables in order to retain any added value. |
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| In particular, the types of capacitors covered by this proceeding are used in consumer electronics durables such as television sets, videocassette recorders and personal computers. |
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| The main components of demand that are affected are housing, consumer spending on durables, business investment in fixed capital and inventory investment. |
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| Nevertheless, increased bank lending will fuel growth in sales of high-end durables. |
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| Each of the regions with above-average increase in nonfarm payrolls had large increases in durables manufacturing payrolls. |
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| One of the most competitive segments in retailing within India lies in the consumer durables industry. |
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| However, in a world that is becoming more insatiably neophiliac, crunching through consumer durables with obscene rapidity, where does that leave thoughtful slowness? |
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| This quarter's Quality Report focuses on customers' perceived quality of the goods and services provided in manufacturing durables and e-business. |
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| The market for baby durables is chiefly fostered by affluent parents keen on providing their babies with the very best of products and services available in the marketplace. |
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| The consumer durables in the case were appliances, furniture, televisions, stereos and video cassette recorders, which were leased to individuals under rent-to-own leases. |
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| In addition to the possibility of a break in confidence, we do not know how far the adjustment of the stocks of consumer durables and business capital equipment has come. |
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