| While many commodity markets have been very much on the firm side, the grain and oilseed complex have been weak. |
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| If I were a magician I would use my skills to produce for you an endless supply of commodity without consuming any resources. |
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| China and India are growing at enormous speeds and consuming huge amounts of every commodity. |
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| Like music and literature, art has become a commodity in a society of consumerism. |
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| One could get pleasurably lost for hours in its labyrinthine lanes with tiny shops that sell just about every imaginable commodity. |
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| Traders say it would take some time before fruits become a plentiful commodity in these parts. |
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| They are also more and more likely to pass laws that make a commodity of a natural life form. |
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| She is not only a coffee researcher, but also a coffee fan who collects beans during vacations and roasts the precious commodity to perfection. |
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| Artesian water is a precious commodity and some parts of the desert have insufficient water supplies to maintain a pool in the long term. |
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| So when the 1980s came along, there is a sharp decline in commodity prices and a sharp increase in real interest rates. |
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| The nuts were a vital source of food for their families, autumn forage for their animals, and a commodity for barter and sale. |
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| When record companies started producing CDs, audio tape was the vogue and the production of CDs, a limited commodity, was more expensive. |
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| Space was a precious commodity on sailing ships, and decks were kept as clear as possible. |
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| The case for commodity money in general, and for silver and gold in particular, was established, authoritatively, long ago. |
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| It very well may be a happier year in commodity markets if the facts of last year's short crop overcome continued global economic inertia. |
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| Four of the 14 orders deal with commodity levies, which are voted upon by growers of tamarillos, meat, wool, and wine grapes. |
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| A sudden avalanche of selling by these parties at current depressed prices amid rising global demand and commodity prices makes little sense. |
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| Now this is one commodity along with female sanitary pads, that I have always thought should need no advertising. |
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| The commodity chain of the global food industry starts here, as does that of American industrialism. |
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| We treat food as a marketable commodity, instead of as a basic human necessity. |
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| There are plenty of people who treat spirituality as a marketable commodity. |
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| On a global scale, and in many developing nations, water is a scarce and valuable, and clearly marketable, commodity. |
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| Kidding aside, the resolution said water was a basic human right and should not be treated as a marketable commodity. |
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| The strong commodity prices that Australia benefited from are beginning to feed through to higher consumer prices in Asia. |
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| Simple voice phones are becoming a throwaway commodity, and terminal manufacturers have seen handset sales dip for the first time ever. |
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| The bank hopes that it will attract potential customers like wholesalers and retailers dealing in commodity trading, white goods and automobiles. |
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| The power of transformation or efficacy of the commodity is often a selling point. |
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| Attractive Georgian farmhouses with land capable of earning a respectable income are always a sellable commodity. |
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| Because the tiger had become so rare, it had become an extremely valuable commodity in the black markets of Asia. |
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| We need more flexibility in the system, as time with patients is a valuable commodity. |
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| According to experts of the economic ministry, it has not been decided yet whether the grain is to be sold on commodity exchanges. |
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| Experience, considered a priceless commodity in life, can also be a useful ally in football. |
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| In this study, 5-year moving averages are used to estimate the mean value of each commodity. |
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| The apartment comes with a car parking space, a valuable commodity in this area of the city. |
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| The owners treated their serfs as if they were a commodity like pork bellies. |
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| After all, pork bellies are a commodity, and they make the Farm Report every day. |
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| Her husband, Harvey, is a commodity broker, but he would sooner die, she insists on his behalf, than trade pork bellies. |
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| The second most valuable traded commodity, after oil, industrial coffee thrives on economic and environmental exploitation. |
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| When you savour your morning coffee, you're sipping on the second most traded commodity after oil. |
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| Instead of trading a commodity, what is traded is the right or the obligation to buy or sell a commodity at a future point. |
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| Time is my most precious commodity so I don't waste it on people I don't want to see or on things I don't want to do. |
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| In this context, going beyond the form means transcending the notion of bread as commodity and examining the labor that made it possible. |
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| He wants to enforce his own view that water is a precious commodity to be used only as necessary. |
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| Lactose, or milk sugar, is also a value-added commodity and a byproduct of whey protein concentration. |
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| Until then, or until such times as the team's injury list shortens, Stark must rely on hope or good fortune to deliver that precious commodity. |
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| The most important reasons for this are strong commodity prices, particularly for copper, pulp, paper and wood products. |
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| What tends to happen oftentimes in commodity money systems is that states began to monopolize the production of the commodity money. |
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| So dirt has morphed from moral blemish to commodity, and with it a market has been born. |
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| To manipulate religious conviction into a political commodity is a contemporary form of simony. |
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| The bottom line is as long as health care is a purchasable commodity, women will not be getting the care they need. |
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| He said Zesco's aim should be to attract more people to access the commodity instead of making it unaffordable. |
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| After all, it is precisely because music is a commodity that producing it is such a struggle. |
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| Water is a very scarce, precious and essential commodity and it is essential for survival. |
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| The article concludes with a discussion of the uncanniness of this re-emergent form of commodity fetishism. |
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| Economically, coffee production came to dominate as Colombian insertion into the world market economy depended on this export commodity. |
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| Labour was treated like any other commodity, whose price was best set through a free unconstrained labour market. |
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| To me, sleep was the most precious commodity in the world and I would fight for as much of it as I could. |
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| However, they are not uniform, either across food commodities or within a particular food commodity. |
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| The third alternative is to produce a commodity at a lower unit cost than anyone else can. |
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| Liberalisation came as a boon to the commodity trading, which is gradually gaining ground in the market circles. |
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| By contrast, hoarding of a non-monetary commodity is kept within bounds by declining marginal utility. |
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| Industry credibility, he says, was always going to be a far more valuable commodity than hype and exposure. |
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| Saraki insists it's time Nigeria diversifies its economy and relies less on oil as the only export commodity. |
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| The Namibian currency is expected to remain soft while commodity prices are expected to hold firm against a soft currency and a strong demand. |
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| Ober also likes the prospects for coal companies, which are enjoying an uptick in commodity prices due to the increased demand for electricity. |
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| The Peruvian Neuvo Sol is also known around the world as a commodity currency. |
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| If you take the long view, the commodity economy passes through three stages. |
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| Here again, the significance of this development can only be fully grasped on the basis of Marx's analysis of the commodity form. |
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| They knew their product line, no-name ink-jet cartridges, was a commodity, so service would make or break the business. |
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| As for Dell, meanwhile, Livermore played the innovation versus commodity card. |
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| The problem with purchasing labour is that it is a distinctly unusual commodity, imbued with intentionality. |
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| Once the demand for oil is replaced by a demand for another commodity, the current land value of Saudi Arabia may plunge to nearly zero. |
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| Captive-bred birds are easy to come by now, but the time needed to look after and fly a bird is still a rare commodity. |
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| Also unheard-of was a cartel cornering a commodity such as crude oil, as long as the medium of exchange was gold. |
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| Since then most countries have floated their currencies, which have no intrinsic commodity value. |
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| Attitudes about nature as backdrop, commodity, enemy have been dug out and re-animated as if they were not ancient corpses moldering and corrupt. |
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| Other reasons for importing the commodity was because of its high quality nature which if blended with the local wheat gives quality bread flour. |
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| In America, in 1917, the administration grasped, for the first time, that war, like pop-up toasters, was a marketable commodity. |
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| If Harrington spends three years captaining the scout team, he will remain an unknown commodity. |
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| In other countries, notably the United States, trucks now dominate long-haul transport of all but bulk commodity goods such as coal or wheat. |
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| Energy and commodity prices have spiked and there is a general inflationary bias throughout the commodities markets. |
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| Its voracious appetite for materials is driving up not only commodity prices but ocean shipping rates as well. |
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| Even when industry seeks green alternatives, it can be hit by other factors, notably commodity prices. |
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| A sacrifice is not always a calculable commodity and often entails an element of uncertainty. |
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| A key trend limiting real-terms growth in the major developed markets was the commodity status of staples such as milk, cheese and cream. |
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| Thermoplastics, which soften when heated and harden when cooled, run the gamut from commodity to engineering plastics. |
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| Time is the most precious commodity everyone has in life and how it is used is vital. |
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| But you have a common commodity and a common end and you have a joint enterprise, have you not? |
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| Perhaps a city merchant could hardly distinguish between commodity money and his main stock-in-trade. |
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| Its commodity manager was stockpiling the metal just as its engineers were minimizing the amount needed in its catalytic converters. |
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| Water was transformed from a human right into a commodity to be traded on the open market. |
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| And it had one rare commodity, a giant electric portable heater that warmed the entire unit. |
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| We accomplished this feat by using only commodity hardware and open-source software. |
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| There are opportunists who think of Diwali as a way to make a buck and sell it as a colorful commodity on the market. |
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| Today's farmer understands all too well how completely his profit is tied to the upticks and downticks of the commodity markets. |
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| In my view, the commodity boom is a reminder that the supply of ores, minerals and metals is not infinitely flexible. |
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| You can go from ballistic nylon, which is a commodity that everyone needs to have, to our heritage lines of tweed and belting leather. |
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| Genuine patriotism is a tough commodity to come by in these more jaded, jingoistic times. |
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| Price indices may or may not catch the effect of the net outflow of money from the commodity market. |
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| Markets rarely become as oversold as they are overbought, even commodity markets. |
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| In a world where anything and everything is a commodity, one has to maintain one's ground to resist subscribing to the demands of total loyalty. |
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| These subsidies distort commodity prices and undercut U.S. exporters in key markets around the world. |
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| But it is clear that encouraging commodity production with price subsidies has not kept people in rural areas. |
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| In a nutshell, coal ports are exposed to the vulnerability that stems from overdependence on the fortunes of a single commodity. |
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| The water levels for the cisterns for each commodity will find a common level. |
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| Sapient advised that there was no need to overstock commodity items like office supplies that can be obtained easily anywhere. |
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| Supposedly laying ones neurotic soul bare through primal, overwrought wailing has become a commodity. |
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| Most supercomputers are built from commodity processors that are designed for a broad market and are manufactured in large numbers. |
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| Tucker Carlson, the feisty co-host of The Spin Room, is also seen by some as a hot commodity. |
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| But it is also significantly more than just the hunting grounds upon which consumers hunt down the latest commodity fetish. |
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| With no new mines anticipated for the northern section of the coalfield the port's commodity hinterland had effectively vanished. |
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| He is imbued with a quiet confidence, but he appreciates how precious that particular commodity is. |
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| But online stores are cold, impersonal places devoid of any sense of human contact, where every book is merely an itemised commodity. |
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| Crude oil, also known as petroleum, is the world's most actively traded commodity. |
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| Themes range from war and economic exploitation to the demands imposed on women by commodity culture and advertising. |
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| Thus, the choice between commodity and inconvertible paper is that between determined or undetermined exchange value of the money. |
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| The way to deal with a commodity consumer market is to be the biggest player and have the strongest brand. |
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| His wife hails from Hamburg, Germany, and he had a spell working as a commodity broker for a bank. |
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| The performance of many is closely linked to trends in commodity prices and raw materials. |
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| In general, a miner's profit is determined by the market price of the commodity it extracts from the ground. |
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| The company continues with its ongoing strategy of moving away from commodity products. |
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| His time is a valuable commodity, and when reporters are denied it, they can become annoyed. |
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| Neither does he have much in the way of time, the commodity most precious when finances are limited. |
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| By combining oil and gas, risk has been diversified in terms of its commodity exposure. |
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| Here is another push by capitalist forces to entrap areas of economic life that had once been outside the sway of the commodity form. |
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| Water is a precious commodity on the dry east Mediterranean island, which desalinates more than a fifth of its household needs from the sea. |
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| And the third thing which has emerged just in the last few months in particular has been the big lift in commodity prices. |
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| She could have at least made an effort at candidness, but Mike reckoned once you'd been to the other side, sincerity was an expendable commodity. |
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| Increasingly in the new global economy, labour is becoming an unregulated commodity. |
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| What may hurt the interests of the producer of a definite commodity is his failure to anticipate correctly the state of the market. |
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| Oil and Gas Journal's editor, Bob Tippee, proclaims that commodity markets work. |
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| The probability of transformation is framed entirely in terms of the quality of the commodity. |
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| World trade growth also decelerated sharply, commodity prices fell and deflation affected much of the world economy. |
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| The government alleges that they got together and rigged commodity markets of their own volition. |
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| Agricultural commodity exchanges, for instance, are not subjected to the same insider trading legislation as securities. |
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| Doing so, she challenges conceptions of gender, race, gentility, and commodity culture that were already in flux after the war. |
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| A hedger locks in a price for a cash commodity by cross-hedging that commodity with a related commodity traded at one of the commodity exchanges. |
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| The five New York commodity futures exchanges will reopen today, a spokesman said yesterday. |
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| Mass entertainment is a commodity as any other and consumer preferences and affordability should play a part here too. |
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| Physical and financial hedging around energy commodity purchasing represents the most common approach to risk management. |
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| Australia is slowing and world commodity prices should ease as world growth slows. |
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| Pure competition, as Schumpeter sees it, exists only in open markets for fungible commodity products. |
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| Its applicability is limited to societies dominated by commodity exchange, necessarily capitalism. |
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| Kierans did not share the technocratic credentialism that would eventually make the MBA degree such a hot academic commodity. |
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| Currently, the SCE is one of the three licensed commodity exchanges in the country. |
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| In the world of investment, gold is also highly sought after, but the current craze for this commodity has nothing to do with the festive season. |
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| But times have changed, and rugby league has once again become a very marketable commodity. |
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| Now, FBI agents' time is a much scarcer commodity because so many agents focus on counterterrorism. |
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| They kept on buying bonds and hedged themselves with short positions in the commodity market. |
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| In the marketplace everything becomes a commodity and all workers become wage slaves who can be fired without compunction. |
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| If you are a fan of real Kobe Wagyu beef, then you know all about what makes it such a prized commodity. |
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| Futures and options are derivatives because their value depends on the price of the underlying asset, be it a commodity, investment or index. |
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| After all, women these days make no secret of the fact that a guy with strong, muscular arms and washboard abs is a wanted commodity. |
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| He suggests that the solution lies in treating knowledge as any other marketable commodity. |
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| Water is also becoming a valuable commodity traded in the global marketplace. |
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| He expressed expectations that Germany will reassume its leading position in commodity exchange with Bulgaria and in the field of investments. |
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| Gold is the only mineral commodity which is expected to benefit from the current global economic recession. |
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| The pupils ran into the recreation room, which had one now vital commodity, a television. |
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| The core infrastructure of the internet is now a commodity and the concept of standard web services is being accepted. |
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| Of all sugary plant produce, none yields a commodity as highly valued or widely grown as grape wine. |
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| A repeat of the pattern after a pause would take commodity prices substantially higher. |
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| Confidantes are a more precious commodity than ever, in part because the CEO position has become a revolving door. |
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| The television programme has turned arts and antiquities into crude commodity fetishism. |
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| These confluence levels allowed traders to see where a stock, future, commodity, or currency had the greatest probability of pausing or reversing on intraday charts. |
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| Our commodity groups, trade associations, councils and ag organizations have many connections and have had many successes in marketing our commodities worldwide. |
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| An overnight plunge in commodity prices sent the Australian dollar tumbling to a five month low and currency dealers believe there's more falls to come. |
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| Units exported or imported were reported only in pounds, gallons, bales, bushels, short tons, dozens, bags, crates and bunches, etc., depending on the commodity. |
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| Traditional silk is an evergreen commodity and the latest styles in Kacheepuram, Valkalam, Puttapakka, Venkatagiri and the likes are always in demand. |
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| As environmentalists keep warning us, even the air is a scarce commodity. |
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| Since then, we've seen the rise of internet-based applications and thin commodity servers, and a whole new model of open, scalable, distributed computing built upon Linux. |
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| As the braying traders on the commodity exchanges in London and New York sold Rwanda's coffee and tin they were sealing the fate of peasants 6,000 miles away. |
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| They will explain to you why the market price of a commodity rises above or sinks below its value, but they can never account for the value itself. |
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| Fluorite was not an economic commodity until the advent of modern steel-making processes during the late nineteenth century created a demand for it as a fluxing agent. |
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| It is not a scarce commodity to be meted out begrudgingly or in short portions. |
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| The residents said they depended on rain water or untreated water from wells and were sometimes forced to walk long distances in search of the commodity. |
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| But as a commodity sold in bulk, soy beans and oil are not worth much. |
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| Debt relief would barely make up for the fall in commodity prices such as coffee and cotton on which many developing nations' economies are reliant. |
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| If we begin to see the other as our possession and commodity, our shoe, the shadow of our shadow, is there ever a happy outcome? |
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| Religion has become a commodity that is being sold in our cities, towns and villages, and vote banks are the institutions, which exchange votes with power. |
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| Nobody, but nobody knows more about the wants and wishes of consumers of fresh agricultural products than the commodity groups that promote those products. |
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| Lifestyles are the principal commodity of an informational economy. |
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| Lifestyle, or sensibility, is the dominant commodity, clothing the subliminal message. |
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| But the fall-off in ground attendance is also the result of deep-rooted changes in culture and customs which have influenced sport as a commodity. |
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| In the case of agricultural commodities backwardation provides a most powerful incentive for traders to sell the cash commodity and buy the futures. |
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| Sheki is also known for its huge caravanserais of which it once had five, a time when local silk was a valued commodity on Caucasian trade routes. |
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| Taylor knows not only the value of her commodity, but also how to control it. |
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| Do you want to sell magic as a lifestyle commodity to the general public? |
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| Cotton is one commodity for which privatization has occurred rapidly. |
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| Iron was a very important commodity to the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, and those people who were lucky enough to be skilled in working it were held in high regard. |
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| If you tax pot as commodity and allow the people to regulate themselves then cops wont have a reason to group stoners and other drug users together. |
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| The chief commodity sought is tin, as fine-grained cassiterite in vein swarms related to the emplacement of granitic rocks within sedimentary carbonates. |
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| More than any other media proprietor, Rupert Murdoch had an intuitive revelation about the value of news as a commodity. |
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| Water is going to waste while others are without this vital commodity. |
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| There are jobs aplenty and even the commodity prices are looking up. |
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| The commodity is water and the idea has become a big revenue generator. |
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| But how can investors hedge against rising commodity prices? |
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| For instance, the commodity is durable and it is also portable. |
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| So this may indicate that those punters betting on shares prices, indices, commodity prices and the like actually do worse than the more traditional sports betting activities. |
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| Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world after oil. |
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| In turn, the higher yields ultimately crash the stock and commodity markets, and those developments let out a ton of steam from the bond pressure cooker. |
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| After Animal House, Doug Kenney was a hot property, a commodity to be fawned over and fought for. |
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| While half of Nova Scotia's apples go to low-yield commodity products like juice, the vast majority of Scotian Gold apples are premium eating apples. |
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| Awareness is the most precious commodity that exists in any culture. |
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| Therefore your cow is a valuable commodity and you need to look after her. |
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| In England, land was treated as a commodity in the thirteenth century. |
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| Certainly, this appears to be the case for a country like Iran, where the major export is a largely fungible commodity that can be easily diverted to other markets. |
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| The problem is that their remarkable efficiency allows them to overproduce almost any commodity, so agriculture tends to lurch from surplus to surplus. |
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| These are readily available free from several of the commodity exchanges. |
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| Trust is a fragile commodity, easily lost and hard to regain. |
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| The company blamed widespread illegal mining in Bangka Belitung province for oversupplying the tin market and dragging the price of the commodity down. |
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| Transport and other logistics of moving the commodity to other areas across the region were also cited as some of the challenges to the development of the crop. |
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| What a commodity authenticity is, I marvel, as the piano man commands the heaving, crapulent parlour as white-haired couples dance and laugh in Midlands drawl. |
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| Many commodity markets, including butter, skim milk powder and Gouda and Cheddar cheeses could be easily entered by suppliers from Argentina or eastern Europe. |
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| The symmetry between the two markets breaks down because whenever the central bank intervenes, it is always in the bond market, never in the commodity market. |
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| It is not up to the governments to monetize or demonetize a commodity. |
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| He had done two dangerous things, stealing state property on a large scale, and dealing in a socially sensitive commodity, as well as making an enormous profit for himself. |
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| In other words, people already attached some importance to this commodity. |
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| We are more troubled with sickness, than comforted with health and so by the discommodity of sickness, we come to understand the commodity of health. |
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| If there is one precious commodity for America, it is our touting of the First Amendment. |
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| It could then export the surplus of this commodity in exchange for imports produced by other countries with respective comparative cost advantages. |
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| In the context of elegy and of lyric, however, this marks a distinct departure, and one that acquires weight as print becomes a commodity consumed by unknown readers. |
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| It's an easy sell there, because that's where the commodity has value. |
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| The price may be as various as the amount paid for a specific commodity, an hourly wage rate, or a professional fee for technical advice, or an insurance premium and so on. |
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| He likens public education to a tradeable commodity, subject to the same free-market competition rules as soybeans, bobblehead dolls and softwood lumber. |
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| Why are there not temporary collecting bins provided throughout the area to facilitate the salvage of this valuable commodity, and save quite a lot of land-fill space? |
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| Roger Martin on why Google acts like a great company, not a tradable commodity. |
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| The House of Representatives votes today on cap-and-trade legislation that will make pollution a tradable commodity. |
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| We're living in a culture that is insanely focused on commodity. |
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| Many schools use commodity food items such as grains, dried beans, and peas in their salad bar to stay within their budget. |
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| Our consumer culture sees makeovers as a commodity, something we need to purchase on a regular basis. |
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| The commodity chemical companies are mostly based in Teesside whereas the pharmaceuticals are based in Northumberland and County Durham. |
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| Although they were once in the forefront of consumer electronics, the calculators have become a mere commodity. |
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| The Seagates are,despite my constant grotching about commodity drives, not bad. |
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| Three new examples of Hollywood's staple commodity, the horse opera, all filmed in color, contain the full quota of galloping and gunplay. |
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| A key commodity of the Iron Age was salt, used for preservation and the supplementation of diet. |
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| As commodity prices fell, many farmers could no longer operate their farms at a profit. |
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| Aggravating this outflow was the fact that silver was the only commodity accepted by China for exporting goods during this period. |
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| There are several online marketplaces that assist with the commodity selling of aircraft parts. |
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| By 1698, a broker named John Castaing, operating out of Jonathan's Coffee House, was posting regular lists of stock and commodity prices. |
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| It is an economic process that uses inputs to create a commodity or a service for exchange or direct use. |
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| Here, utility refers to the hypothesized relation of each individual consumer for ranking different commodity bundles as more or less preferred. |
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| Smith maintained that, with rent and profit, other costs besides wages also enter the price of a commodity. |
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| The period witnessed news become a commodity, the essay developed into a periodical art form, and the beginnings of textual criticism. |
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| He considers the latter less significant and less volatile than commodity movements. |
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| In 2010, oil was the largest import commodity, while transportation equipment was the country's largest export. |
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| Cairo in particular benefitted from the rise of Yemeni coffee as a popular consumer commodity. |
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| Rapid increases in a number of commodity prices followed the collapse in the housing bubble. |
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| Farmers receiving the SFP have the flexibility to produce any commodity on their land except fruit, vegetables and table potatoes. |
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| The global recession that followed resulted in a sharp drop in international trade, rising unemployment and slumping commodity prices. |
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| Illicit drugs are considered to be a commodity with strong demand, as they are typically sold at a high value. |
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| Most modern business theorists describe a continuum with pure service on one terminal point and pure commodity good on the other. |
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| The level of protection in commodity trade has been low, except for agricultural products. |
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| This part of Britain had most of the towns and the most highly developed commodity production. |
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| Many Highland landlords were in debt, despite rising commodity prices and the associated farm incomes which allowed higher rents to be charged. |
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| Combined with high inflation, and interest rates, these high commodity prices reduced the standard of living. |
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| Falling export demand and commodity prices placed massive downward pressures on wages. |
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| Local and regional livestock auctions and commodity markets facilitate trade in livestock. |
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| The over burthen of these expenses falls upon the sale of the commodity, and lessens the consumption. |
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| These companies make products such as petrochemicals, commodity chemicals, fertilizers and polymers. |
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| He does not like twisting arms, LBJ's forte, preferring the force of reason, a commodity not in over-supply in the nation's capital. |
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| They were rapidly introduced into Europe and cultivated and became a frenzied commodity during Tulip mania. |
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| This has added to processes of commodity exchange and colonization which have a longer history of carrying cultural meaning around the globe. |
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| Socialists draw parallels between the trade of labour as a commodity and slavery. |
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| One important commodity being transported by the Arab dhows to Somalia was slaves from other parts of East Africa. |
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| Alum was a vital commodity because of its many uses and relatively few sources. |
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| Antwerp became the sugar capital of Europe, importing the raw commodity from Portuguese and Spanish plantations. |
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| Maize is bought and sold by investors and price speculators as a tradable commodity using corn futures contracts. |
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| Slaves were an expensive commodity, and traders received a great deal in exchange for each enslaved person. |
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| Also there may be variances in quality of the underlying good which may not have fully agreed commodity grading. |
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| Cobalt blue was considered as a precious commodity, with a value about twice that of gold. |
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| Spanish America's ability to supply a great amount of silver and China's strong demand for this commodity resulted in a spectacular mining boom. |
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| The petrochemical and commodity chemical manufacturing units are on the whole single product continuous processing plants. |
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| In India, the Consumer Protection Act 1986 differentiates the consummation of a commodity or service for personal use or to earn a livelihood. |
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| Wrought iron is a general term for the commodity, but is also used more specifically for finished iron goods, as manufactured by a blacksmith. |
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| With an annual production of 6 million tonnes, the decahydrate is a major commodity chemical product. |
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| This method is used in some stock exchanges and commodity exchanges, and involves traders shouting bid and offer prices. |
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| A monopoly exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity. |
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| More than shirts and suits, the spornosexual's body is the ultimate commodity. |
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| I wanted to explore how at the launch of a new millennium many people were beginning to feel like teratoids in the global commodity exchange. |
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| Machines that run IBM-compatible software are a commodity, and they sell at razor-thin profit margins. |
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| Today, sorcery has become a commodity that reconsolidates modernity's unequal relations of power and wealth. |
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| Music again became a saleable commodity with the advent of iTunes. |
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| The advent of the lima bean harvester made limas a viable economic commodity. |
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| As house is also a kind of commodity, it also coincides with the law of diminishing marginal utility. |
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| Even when commodities are observable and measurable, commodity shadow prices still pose serious problems. |
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| Rising commodity prices permitted improvement in the terms of trade, thereby enhancing gains from productivity advances. |
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| The Indian government has announced that it has made changes to commodity exchange norms, liberalising the sector in the process. |
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| In a report, a Wall Street lobby group highlighted the important role of banks in the physical commodity market. |
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| Those investing in commodities are not typical of other commodity market participants. |
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| As education has become more corporatized and become treated as a commodity, rather than a process, then. |
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| Never mind that no one's making a killing selling email software or that it seems almost like an ostensive definition of a commodity application. |
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| At the time, vitamin C was a rare commodity and could only be extracted from adrenal glands or massive amounts of orange juice. |
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| Higher-end, value-added flexible packaging is taking market share away from cardboard packaging and low-end commodity films. |
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| Germanium is a commodity that is primarily mined and produced by just a handful of relatively large companies worldwide. |
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| How did the lowly photocopy evolve to become a business-changing commodity? |
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| With commodity prices rising, many product packages are being downsized to meet price point objectives. |
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| Further, the cost of raw materials per hectoliter was virtually unchanged compared to last year, despite increases in commodity prices. |
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| These markets are growing faster than those for commodity grade polypropylenes. |
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| Its incombustible property combined with high tensile strength made it a valuable commodity. |
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| In the former case, it is the brand name of commodity culture, while in the latter it is the sublime name of High Art's aesthetic introjection. |
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