Downstream

Market power, price discrimination, and allocative efficiency in intermediate-goods markets.
RAND Journal of Economics; 12/22/2009; 6867 words; ...optimally discriminates among downstream firms on the basis of differences...derived demands. Typically, a downstream firm's derived demand is less...prices to the more productive downstream firms, allocative efficiency...

Reading is fundamental.(2009 Literacy Grants Recipients)
Phi Kappa Phi Forum; 12/22/2009; 2388 words; ...to be story readers and storytellers, two essential skills for later literacy," he said. "Reading to infants has many downstream benefits. When parents engage in this enthusiastically and steadily, they promote vocabulary knowledge, model a love of...

Trust science: as, indeed, you already do.(Viewpoint essay)
National Review; 12/21/2009; 2134 words; ...kind of dramatic social engineering implicit in the phrase "combating climate change" is emotionally appealing to them. Downstream from these ideologues are opportunist politicians eager to ride the climate-change wave to power and wealth. These pols...

Scripps research study describes new tool in the fight against autoimmune diseases, blood cancers.
NewsRx Health & Science; 12/20/2009; 1381 words; ...immune system. "Almost without exception, drugs currently used to treat autoimmune conditions either inhibit something downstream of the autoimmune response itself, like inflammation, or they moderate the immune system non-selectively and that results...

Making sense of greenhouse gas accounting.
NewsRx Science; 12/20/2009; 1218 words; ...methods include or exclude upstream and downstream processes, depending on their scope...at including upstream, operating and downstream environmental effects. Finally, the...format called the upstream-operating-downstream framework (UOD). This framework is...