Now, a growing chorus of middle-class parents say they're bringing that sensibility to family life, cutting back on all the music lessons, sports practices and summer camps and trying to enjoy life more by doing less.
Converging factors of telework, globalization, new communications technologies, and recurrent cost-cutting have made virtual life the norm inside companies.
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Almost two years ago she received a "disconnect" - a letter cutting her mother out of her life totally.
In the unhappy world of American newspapers, where cost-cutting has become a way of life, lavishing money on journalism would constitute a radical new strategy.
But for now, and the next couple of decades, spending the billions required to explore Mars, search for life on Europa and develop cutting age science hardware like the Webb Telescope is exactly where our government (and others) must be focusing.
Two, breathe some life into the old guard by cutting deals with a company such as Electronic Arts ( EA).
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Cutting back might make the family's life easier, Parker said.
Its battery life should allay concerns about MP3 listening cutting too deeply into talk time.
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And it speeded up the plants' growing period, cutting between eight and 12 weeks off the usual life cycle.
And if you have such a bad cutting habit just for coffee, what other cutting are you doing in the rest of your life?
Steinheimer believes that the decline of the studios' power, combined with Taylor's colourful personal life, created a new, more cutting, and less sycophantic style of mainstream media coverage of celebrities - moving towards today's tabloid press.
Airline seats are a perishable commodity an empty seat becomes a worthless asset once the plane takes off and this fact of aviation life has sometimes led to ruinous price-cutting.
Portal is a game from 2007, its cutting edge somewhat dulled technologically, and the original Half-Life was first published in 1998.
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Maintaining the important Indian pedigree of the collection, the rough diamonds were cut and polished by master craftsmen in Indian cutting and polishing factories, while the design was brought to life by Indian jewelry manufacturer Uni-Design Jewellery Private Ltd. of Mumbai.
The High Court injunction covers physical structures including cars and caravans and also prevents the cutting off of any utilities unless they pose a danger "to life and limb".
Unions suggest that money for the pension system should come from higher taxes or charges on those who are still working, and see cost-cutting in the pension system as an attack on their way of life.
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They are hoping this season's version has a happier ending, although City will have to develop a greater cutting edge in front of goal and overcome a capacity for making life hard for themselves to achieve that.
He now brings the same cutting, nervy, funny angst to a rambling account of his own life.
One is that we are lousy in the UK at catching and diagnosing the disease before it becomes inoperable: cutting the cancer out through surgery is still the most effective way of prolonging life.
That kind of inconsistency was reflected on the pitch as both sets of players struggled to show any real cutting edge - until a thrilling final 10 minutes saw the game explode into life.
Just one customer, Metropolitan Life Insurance, will route about 23 million dental claims through ACS, cutting its costs by a third.
Companies that once helped shoulder the retirement burden through funded pension plans are cutting back their commitments now that low investment returns, low interest rates and higher life expectancy have created frightening deficits.
These high-margin services are breathing new life into the business, as well as helping push the development of new cutting-edge services.
The Netherlands and Spain are cutting their contributions to the Global Fund, one of the two main distributors of the life-saving drugs (the other is Mr Bush's brainchild, PEPFAR), and Italy has stopped paying altogether.
Mr. AMANI MARTIN (Producer, Cutting Edge): Well, what we felt had not been done was a real-life, true depiction of what happens in a black barbershop.
Worse, such proposals may severely damage the ability of companies such as ours to invest in cutting edge research and development, including investment in the many talented scientists who dedicate their lives to finding life changing medical advances.
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For some, true life change requires a completely new environment for at least a month, with strangers bombarding them with cutting criticism, dietary changes, and regular meetings replete with meltdowns, screaming matches, and reconciliations.
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Cutting down on shopping or television may make sense for plenty of people, but it's probably not a life-or-death decision.
Her cost-cutting and her sense of urgency sometimes brought admiration but more often sparked overblown rumors about her lavish spending and high life.
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