To this day, I have a hard time saving anything.
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And you listen to people, they take such pride doing the right thing -- taking care of their families, working hard, saving for the future, living within their means, giving back to their communities.
People know that if they empty their savings accounts or cut back on their 401(k) payments, they may never get that money back--precisely because they have a hard time saving in the first place.
Peter Huber elaborates the argument in his Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists (Basic Books, 1999).
Instead, the Conservative leader imagines a welfare system where ministers in Whitehall pull fiscal strings which encourage people towards his party's core values of hard work, saving, marriage and having children (when you can afford to).
Paying over the odds for bad loans could be a way quietly to recapitalise the banks, so long as it was accompanied by hard decisions about saving those that are the least bad and closing the worst.
Through years of hard work and saving, Japan built up national assets that were much larger than its debt, a cushion also available to the U.S. Japan has a strong-currency policy, causing much of Japan's savings to stay home.
Although many young Americans claim not to believe in the future of Social Security, it is hard to see their saving patterns changing accordingly.
But beyond that minimum, second-guessing individuals' saving decisions is hard to justify.
Saving up your hard-earned cash to stash away an emergency fund?
In any case there are other, different, non- religious values which are part of our heritage-the concept of looking after those who cannot look after themselves, of hard work, perseverance and saving for a rainy day.
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The intricacies of restructuring assets and saving banks can be hard even for the experts to understand.
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It rewards saving, thrift, hard work, innovation, honesty, thinking about others, self-discipline, creativity and all the other qualities you normally associate with decent people and financial progress.
It is something that's worth saving up for, working hard for and you can get a career in this business.
John Goodhall, of the European Construction Industry Federation, says his members are working hard installing insulation and finding other energy saving solutions.
The difference between a good NBA team and a mediocre one is its ability to power through these lackluster opponents, saving the struggle for the hard stuff later on.
Hard times concentrate minds on cost-saving.
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When it's hard just to figure out how to start saving, most people won't.
My parents had worked hard to seize opportunities in their lives, saving enough money to provide me with extracurricular opportunities and eventually hire me a tutor.
Every day, consumers make tough choices about saving, investing, and spending their hard-earned money.
As well as performing life-saving treatments, there are also the incredibly hard moments, for instance, when a patient dies.
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Of course the total energy used by a hard disk drive depends upon the actual usage and power saving modes, and caching of data can reduce the energy used by a HDD in a computer system.
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The Department of Transportation took a hard look and recently eliminated over 32 million annual forms, thus saving tens of millions of dollars in costs annually while also eliminating 1.6 million hours that truck drivers spend on administrative work each year.
Second, private-sector decisions about saving and investment may sometimes be based on false hopes about profits and stockmarket returns hard to believe, given Wall Street's fine record these past few years, but true nonetheless.
In addition to saving the school money the project created jobs in a part of the state that has been particularly hard hit by both the economic recession and the foreclosure crisis.
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