The result of a decrease in supply and an increase in demand is higher prices.

In terms of energy use, peak demand describes a period of simultaneous, strong consumer demand or a period of highest demand in a billing period.

Improved performance or higher quality service does not occur on demand.

During the post Kobe reconstruction period, world demand was buoyant and global productivity surged, owing to China s gathering boom, America s information technology and communications revolution, and political and economic convergence in Europe.

At the same time, there was a surge in demand for gold jewelry.

The main reason for the lag is not simply low demand or large debts.

The lifting of the ban was due to the high demand for timber for rehabilitation and reconstruction activities.

There has been an increasing demand for funds during the current mandate period.

However, rising demand in consumer countries was a further complicating factor.

It is projected that world energy demand will continue to grow rapidly in the coming decades.

When an economy is suffering from high unemployment and weak aggregate demand, spending cuts are contractionary.

With rising demand, firms would hire, and all would be well.

Central banks respond to lowered demand by reducing interest rates and to higher expected inflation by raising interest rates.

In the longer run, that gap needs to be filled by higher foreign demand and increased export potential.

And, with demand high and housing supply fixed at least in the short run prices go up.

As incomes rise, categories reach a takeoff point where demand accelerates by 3 5 times.

The first path is to boost demand for goods and services, and then sit back and watch employment rise as businesses hire people to make the goods and services to meet that demand.

Finally, Japan s external environment today is more challenging. During the post Kobe reconstruction period, world demand was buoyant and global productivity surged, owing to China s gathering boom, America s information technology and communications revolution, and political and economic convergence in Europe.

Higher interest rates also raise the cost of borrowing to buy these assets, which may diminish demand for them, exerting downward pressure on their prices.

Consumption, fueled by huge Asian demand for African commodities, is on the rise across the continent.

This has in large part accounted for Barroso s high hopes of getting a second term.

Indeed, America s current account position strengthened despite the dollar s appreciation in the face of safe haven demand.

But students of economics will no doubt remember an early encounter with Giffen goods, which violate the usual pattern.

This signals a remarkable shift in relative demand for high quality and liquid financial assets an extraordinary rise in market wide excess demand for such assets.

Russia s economic growth is still driven by the sound market reforms undertaken in the 1990 s and Putin s first term, together with high oil and gas prices.

Towards the end of the Permian period continued warming led to a dry, hot climate over much of Gondwana.

America s domestic demand shortfall reflects rising savings, balance sheet damage in the household sector, unemployment, and fiscal distress.

However, some public hospitals are in poor condition and often lack necessary supplies to attend the high demand of patients.

The key problem in times like these is that investor demand for safe, secure, and liquid assets and thus their value is too high, while demand for assets that underpin and finance the economy s productive capital is too low.

In the context of a recovering world economy, and given a sustained surge in demand from developing countries, particularly from China, India and countries of Latin America, world demand for oil grew steadily in 2004.

Lower demand for Greek debt caused its price to fall, meaning that its yield in terms of market interest rates rose.

That means that oil prices have increased in other countries, which should have reduced, not increased, demand.

In Europe, the biennium 2006 2007 requires a consolidation of ongoing projects in the areas of demand reduction and counter narcotics enforcement.

Combined with increasing demand from those with higher incomes and lower supplies due to weather related problems associated with climate change, this means high food prices a lethal threat to developing countries.

In the 550 scenario, energy demand up to 2030 rises by about 32 , with the share of fossil fuels falling markedly, and average demand up 1.2 yearly, compared to 1.6 in the Reference Scenario.

At the same time, Japan s demographic trends will boost demand for fiscal expenditure, as pension and health care costs rise.

But, during a period of weak domestic demand, structural reforms might actually exacerbate short term problems.

Peak load Peak demand, peak load or on peak are terms used in energy demand management describing a period in which electrical power is expected to be provided for a sustained period at a significantly higher than average supply level.

Let me give you an example of this. The year is 1976, and Warner buys Atari because video games are on the rise.

Fourth, rising job losses lead to greater demands for protectionist measures, as governments are pressured to save domestic jobs.

So if the firm takes on too much debt, the cost of debt rises as creditors demand a higher risk premium, and ROE decreases.

As the representatives of Kuwait and the Islamic Republic of Iran had pointed out, high oil prices were indeed caused by growing demand rather than restricted supply.

The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush a period in which strong sled dogs were in high demand.

Moreover, boom in global consumption of cocaine owing to higher demand in Europe and Latin America, together with stable demand in the United States has brought new income to some Bolivians.

The reason is simple the pre crisis period of consuming capital gains that turned out to be at least partly ephemeral inevitably led to a post crisis period of inhibited spending, diminished demand, and higher unemployment.