• "Sequoia is an exciting achievement for the POWER architecture, not just for its speed and energy efficiency, but also for the important and complex work it can support to safeguard the nation's nuclear stockpile, " said Colin Parris, General Manager IBM Power Systems.

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  • The move has been years overdo, auto manufactures moved to fuel-injection systems year ago for greater fuel efficiency, but NASCAR feared the change could open new doors for cheating.

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  • And I am full of gratitude and praise, Mr. President, for you and your whole team, not just for your commitment to green energy, but for your commitment to energy efficiency, which gives you -- on buildings like this, averages 7, 000 jobs for every billion dollars invested -- by far the greatest bang for the buck of any available investment I know.

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  • But they can do wonders for their efficiency by replacing women at desks shuffling countless flimsy paper forms.

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  • Go through the weatherization, the retrofitting alone, we believe that policy like this creates a huge incentive that will increase jobs, that hopefully will begin to provide important training and the development of a skill that is obviously desperately needed not simply to jumpstart an economy, but also to meet our goals for energy efficiency and clean energy.

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  • Online technologies have become enormously useful for increasing the speed and efficiency of communication, but they have a long way to go before they become the primary source for creating and maintaining quality human relationships.

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  • On-line data centers are increasing their capacity to deal with this increased demand for processing power, communication speeds and digital storage capacity but despite the increases in efficiency of enterprise equipment and software there is a price to pay for universal connectivity and general on-line resources.

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  • But the real winner for creating jobs is energy efficiency, like our proposals for insulation.

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  • Many Spaniards acknowledge his achievements but do not care for his chill, calculated efficiency.

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  • Federated's products aren't terrific--none makes it onto the Forbes Best Buy lists for performance and efficiency--but they aren't terrible, either.

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  • Fifth Third, for example, has long been known for its tight expense management, but its efficiency ratio was 63% in the fourth quarter.

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  • But consider that fuel efficiency improves 2 percent for every 100 pounds shed from a vehicle, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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  • But energy efficiency has been a growing priority for commercial builders, according to Jose, who expects lighting controls to become more commonplace in commercial properties over the next five years.

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  • This explanation would be bad news for proponents of market efficiency, but would be consistent with the picture of overall stagnation in the VC-funded part of the tech industry, since the driver of low returns would still be the limited number of good new tech ventures.

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  • This in turn reduces the deficit, but still ensures funding for the clean energy and energy efficiency sector.

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  • But when you shoot for equity, often you forsake efficiency.

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  • He has also talked about raising the fuel efficiency of cars and trucks, an issue Mr Bush detests but he has softened his earlier explicit target for toughening efficiency standards.

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  • They have a fuel efficiency of 45% for AC, but up to 54% if DC is the needed output.

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  • But in any business struggling for energy and capital, energy efficiency is often the highest-return, lowest-risk investment available, limited less by technology or economics than by culture and imagination.

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  • The design of jet engines has progressed over the decades, but has been stuck for many years in a plateau where efficiency gains have flattened out to only .5% a year.

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  • For the efficiency ratios, higher is better, but be careful when comparing numbers of different kinds of nonprofits.

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  • Sensible fuel taxes would have hurt for a while, but unlike market-distorting fuel-efficiency rules, they would have forced GM to evolve.

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  • This implies earnings growth was not only driven by gains in efficiency and productivity, but also by increased demand for products and services.

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  • This is not just about energy efficiency for the sake of the environment, but about bettering the daily lives of people around the world by launching new companies and job creation.

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  • But for hybrid owners who demonstrate exuberant efforts to find more energy efficiency, "we really appreciate the fact that the Prius is the vehicle of choice, " said Jana Hartline, environmental communications manager for Toyota.

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  • They only shot 37.5% (15-for-40) from the field, but finally found some efficiency from behind the three-point line, where they shot 50% (4-for-8).

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  • Less staff means, of course, longer delays and impossibly high workloads for individual investigators and mediators, and may all but vanquish the efficiency of administrative procedures envisioned in the anti-discrimination laws.

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  • 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.

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  • But the listed financial efficiency ratios can be used as points of comparison for any nonprofit, no matter how small.

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  • Mr Webb highlighted the triple lock pensions guarantee as evidence of the coalition's help for pensioners, but told MPs the long-term solution involved energy efficiency of homes.

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