And yet, barring creative professions like graphic design, there's no real productivity boost to be had, no efficiency gained by resorting to a stylus over the finger.
Among them are the Dakotas, Wyoming and a few spots in the deep South--many of them hotbeds of renewable energy with virtually no efficiency programs in place.
If there are no new ways of doing things being developed, if there is no increase in efficiency in certain sectors and so on.
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Geologically similar Polish mines, no models of efficiency, produce twice as much coal as Ukrainian ones with half the men and kill far fewer of them (see chart).
And since 1997, when the 6-foot-11 Wake Forest grad first donned the silver and black as the NBA draft's No. 1 overall pick, no American sports team has done that job better. it's hard to imagine that's not primarily a product of Duncan's no-nonsense efficiency, though Fratello points out that Popovich and the Spurs' front office -- as well as the personnel it's paired with Duncan -- deserve credit.
The fact is, there is simply no replacement for the efficiency, safety, and expansiveness of our pipeline system.
In contrast, systems that simply combine structural elements with power and energy devices, such that each set of materials are acting independently, provide no advantages in system efficiency.
The theorem says that the distribution of property rights, provided they are clearly assigned and transactions costs are low, has no effect on economic efficiency, because people can negotiate their way to the efficient position.
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For years now, their concerns have been ignored by auto executives who insisted there was no way to improve fuel efficiency and still give consumers the cars they want.
The game pits the scoring virtuoso Henderson against a Wisconsin defense that ranks No. 3 nationally in adjusted efficiency behind Florida, the team Henderson torched in the game Ryan was watching.
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Ms Palmer said that there was no gold plate standard and that efficiency is hard to achieve in older properties, adding that there are already tighter standards of efficiency in Wales than in England.
"There's a real desire to put some of the open-source community's energy--no pun intended-- into the efficiency front, " Calder says.
This is the kind of no-nonsense, bureaucracy-busting efficiency that is Sreedharan's hallmark.
Monopolists also have no incentive to reduce costs and increase efficiency, because the absence of competition assures them of selling products very profitably.
The chancellor said he has been talking to mortgage companies, attempting to incentivise them to encourage investment in energy efficiency, but there were no specifics.
But then what the OECD countries are doing is simply trying to maintain status quos which really have no validity in the face of demanding efficiency through competition.
No longer in control, with your efficiency waning and frustration mounting, your first tactic might be to hide the smartphone, just put it away for hours at a time.
There are many barriers to energy efficiency so reducing the tax is a no-brainer.
However, when, just a few days later, Gordon Brown set out the (questionable) arguments that underpin his belief that there is no model for delivering health care with equity and efficiency that is superior to the National Health Service, he was heard with something close to awe.
It is clear then that many of the assumptions that under the efficiency of the cap weighted market portfolio are no longer valid in 2011.
His working efficiency will go down and eventually he will make no contribution to the company.
It might take longer to gain mainstream awareness, but with the groundswell of social media and capital efficiency of building a company, media reach is no longer a gating item.
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Its chief advantage has been the power of many. eBay delivers the efficiency of a global market to buyers and sellers, no matter how small they might be, in a neatly packaged way.
That is a recommendation you might expect from a management consultancy, but no less valid for that: part of the recent increase in efficiency in Brazil's car plants, for example, comes from introducing work teams and re-designing production lines.
The transportation bill, now in its ninth extension, is a critical piece of infrastructure legislation that consolidates more than 100 separate programs into just five major investment categories (for efficiency) and establishes performance standards for these investments (no more "Bridges to Nowhere").
No doubt, Israeli engineers and seismologists would be able to increase the efficiency and productivity of existing wells and so increase their output.
Homeowners can take out 3 or 10-year loans or a no-interest 1-year loan and SolarCity will expand its energy efficiency services to the East Coast.
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