Just a new labour saving technology for the distribution of goods.
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The very reasons why George Bush fared so badly at the polls in 1992 namely, that the expansion started at a modest gradual pace and that labour-saving (cost-reducing) investment was an early distinguishing feature are among the leading causes of the boom's longevity.
The rate of unemployment carried on rising, in fact, from 6.8% at the trough in 1991 to 7.5% by the time of the election not just because demand was increasing comparatively slowly but also because labour-saving investment was playing a larger part than usual in the early stages of the upturn.
Opposition Labour councillors claim a budget saving measure tabled by the Conservative-SNP administration would lessen support for pupils.
Perhaps his greatest claim to fame came in 1993 when he called for the end to the union block vote and was credited with saving the then Labour leader John Smith from a humiliating defeat.
If he does so, without any compensating benefits for the victims (who, in the end, are pensioners, normally a key Labour constituency), it will be seen as an opportunistic, short-termist raid that undermines Labour's claims to want more investment and saving.
Shadow communities minister Caroline Flint said Labour had "not been comfortable talking about efficiency and saving money".
Later, Labour also launched unsuccessful bids to delay the abolition of Saving Gateway Accounts to 2014, and to prevent the removal of Health in Pregnancy grants.
Labour ministers reputedly feel now that their civil servants are saving their ideas and energy for the Conservative government that is likely to be elected next year.
In Labour's first term, Mr Brown offset this private borrowing with public saving.
Counter to Tory policy nationally, Wiltshire councillors agreed to abolish four district councils and merge into one unitary authority - saving a fortune in bureaucracy but cutting a deal with the then Labour government that none of its central funding would be reduced.
Labour MP Ann Keen said the proposed changes to maternity services would put at risk vital life-saving changes backed by clinicians and midwives.
New pre-school programmes in several countries, notably the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia, now help Romany-speaking tots to learn the main language of the country in which they live before starting primary school, so saving them from the special schools and a life of at best menial labour.
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