(He thought they were the settlement of the West and the development of "great new capital-consuming industries").
In contrast to United's capital-consuming acquisitions, American grew mostly from within, conserving its cash to build existing businesses and using affiliations rather than acquisitions to extend its reach.
This energy- and capital-consuming system has caused a dwindling of the water reserve and thus a decrease in the flow of some foggaras.
In economic terms, they are consumption-smoothing households and capital-consuming, often reluctant entrepreneurs at the same time.
In the language of economists, poor families in developing countries are consumption-smoothing households and capital-consuming, self-employed entrepreneurs at the same time.
At the same time, some large-scale, capital-consuming projects, such as dam construction have been put on hold due to strong opposition from NGOs and farmer groups or their low or negative net social benefits.
According to the recently published Living Planet Report, we are already 'drawing down' natural capital by consuming 50percentt more per year than the earth can replenish, and the rate of depletion is accelerating.
The U.S. was consuming capital like it was going out of sight.
People Express failed in part because it expanded too quickly, consuming capital that was needed later to support price competition.
Belatedly, investors have come to recognize that the vaunted business models of the new economy were more effective at consuming capital than generating it.
"Energy is an extremely complex industry, and it is always consuming capital," Lipschultz says.
