For capital markets to be efficient in putting money to best use, companies need flexibility in returning capital as well as in raising it.
When the coalition came to power, a few targets remained within the policing pledge - promises to treat people with dignity and respect, to be efficient in answering calls, to spend more time on the beat - but even these have now been ditched.
We also know that moms have a larger connective area between the right and left hemispheres that helps allow their brains to be more efficient in gathering, synthesizing and integrating new messages.
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Bentley's chief executive Franz-Josef Paefgen, over lunch with journalists in London recently, insisted that "Bentley's engines will be 40% more efficient in four years, and all the cars will be prepared for flex-fuel".
Nissan's Sunderland factory, the biggest in Britain, making more than 330, 000 cars a year, is reckoned to be the most efficient in Europe.
But our courts prove to be no less efficient in evicting occupants.
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From a national policy perspective, speculation provides the grease that encourages markets to be efficient and aids in price discovery by often providing the other side of the trade.
Although we haven't tested these new chips ourselves, PC Perspective is reporting that an Impress study showed these new FX-series processors to be monstrously less efficient in cycles per watt of power consumption than Intel's.
If we start seeing a recovery in such things as auto sales, one can expect much of the new demand to be meant in efficient, largely foreign owned factories that have been gearing up across the Southeast.
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The scientific premise behind our approach is that your brain, in an attempt to be efficient, can learn to act in ways that are not helpful to you.
Its 285, 000-barrels-a-day Pine Bend, Minn. refinery is widely considered to be among the most efficient in North America.
To compete, they need to be as efficient as possible in order to keep prices down if and when competitors move in.
This approach works well for those that believe that segments of the stock market that are more aggressive or tax-efficient should be held in various accounts.
"This move is an important part of our strategy to be more focused and efficient in our operations, including how we staff and support our three business units going forward, " he said.
These are the batteries that go into electric cars, or the batteries that are ending up helping to make sure that if you get solar power or wind power, that it can be transmitted in an efficient way.
Certainly these games have the ability to break out in a big way (I wrote about the success of SongPop previously) but they have to be creative and highly efficient in using limited funds to stand out in the crowd.
If the IT department focuses instead on shutting down old capabilities as new ones are introduced, the infrastructure will ultimately become less complex, allowing IT to be more agile and efficient in delivering still more capabilities to the rest of the organization.
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Portugal and the United States want a reinvigorated alliance, which will be capable of responding in an efficient manner to the challenges and threats transatlantic security may be faced with.
The headline of Mr Andrews' speech was that there would be significantly fewer universities in Wales by 2013, indicating smaller institutions were to be forced into mergers if needs be in order to provide a more efficient service.
Taxpayers' money had to be used in the most efficient way to elicit "the best results", she concluded.
The inventors state that this could be used in flexible and efficient solar cells and light emitting diodes.
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Mr. Bloomberg said a city study showed the city's parking system to be one of the most efficient in the country.
Instead of randomly networking, a tightly focused nodal networking approach will tend to be the most effective and efficient in enabling you to source wealthy clients.
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Federal awards make big differences in the lives of Americans, and it is important that this money be managed in the most efficient, effective and accountable way.
The reasoning behind this strategy stems from the belief that parts of the financial markets are efficient and should be invested in with index funds while other parts are inefficient and this where active management is fruitful.
And we've already shown what we did in the auto industry, that even businesses that are troubled, if you go in there and you start harnessing American know-how and American ingenuity, and you give folks some support, that there is no reason why we can't be the single most efficient automakers in the world and significantly cut our dependence on foreign oil.
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If we can do that in a energy-efficient -- in a cost-efficient way, then that would be hugely helpful to us.
Since opening its franchise business in 2012 the pool care franchise has made acquisitions in four states and has found acquisition to be a highly efficient and beneficial route to garnering clients in unexplored markets.
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