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1Natural gas prices — at the Henry Hub in US Dollars per MBtu for the 2000 2010 decade. Natural gas prices, as with other commodity prices, are mainly driven by supply and demand fundamentals. However, natural gas prices may also be linked to the price of crude oil… …
2Health care prices — Unlike most markets for consumer services in the United States, the health care market generally lacks transparent market based pricing. Patients are typically not able to comparison shop for medical services based on price, as medical service… …
3Excluding Items — The common practice of leaving certain factors out of an overall calculation to remove the volatility that might otherwise impact is comparability or distort long term forecasting. Excluding items can often refer to items left out of the… …
4Consumer Prices Index — (CPI) United Kingdom One of two consumer price indices used as the domestic measure of inflation in the UK (see also Retail Prices Index (RPI)). The CPI is published by the Office for National Statistics. It measures the average change from month …
5Art, Antiques, and Collections — ▪ 2003 Introduction In 2002 major exhibitions such as Documenta 11 reflected the diverse nature of contemporary art: artists from a variety of cultures received widespread recognition for work ranging from installation to video to painting …
6Economics of the arts and literature — or, for ease of reference below, cultural economics, is a branch of economics that studies the economics of creation, distribution, and the consumption of works of art and literature. For a long time the arts were confined to visual and… …
7Liquor Control Board of Ontario — Infobox Company company name = Liquor Control Board of Ontario company company type = Crown corporation foundation = 1927 location = Toronto, Ontario industry = Retail (Department Discount) num employees = 3421 (2007) products = Liquor sales and… …
8AppleTree Markets — is a Texas grocery chain that was formed in 1988 with stores from Safeway s Houston division. The division once comprised of 99 stores in the Houston and Austin regions. As of January 21, 2007, the chain operated two locations in Bryan, Texas,… …
9Business and Industry Review — ▪ 1999 Introduction Overview Annual Average Rates of Growth of Manufacturing Output, 1980 97, Table Pattern of Output, 1994 97, Table Index Numbers of Production, Employment, and Productivity in Manufacturing Industries, Table (For Annual… …
10United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
