Several years ago, noticing uneaten fruit piling up in our office as holiday gifts from vendors, I wondered how much we spent for cards, fruit, nuts and candy for customers.
Lord Broers, a distinguished engineer and former vice-chancellor of Cambridge University, was worried by how little we spent on research and development as a country compared to rivals - 1.7% of GDP in the UK, as compared to 2.8% in Germany and 2.9% in the United States.
If some adolescent in Malaysia wants to hack in to my system to find out how much money we spent on office supplies last year, more power to him.
We need the flexibility as to how they are spent, so we can adapt to the unknowable circumstances that are unfolding in the weeks and months ahead.
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"I can't imagine how much we've spent on Disney products - books, videotapes, balloons, masks, watches, pencil sharpeners, towels, socks, candy, drinking glasses, puppets, photo albums, " Beijinger Li Jeifei recently complained.
While we will find out how much the company spent this quarter when it announces it results in April, we may get an update at the shareholders meeting.
The M500's user interface is fairly intuitive and it's not like we had any trouble figuring out how to get around or do stuff once we'd spent a few minutes with it.
If you could simplify the access of funds you could give local people much more power to determine how that money was spent and then we would be in a position to get on much more quickly with the regeneration of the estate.
We spent a lot of time in this meeting discussing a jobs package and how we could move forward on that.
"It is for Government to decide how those revenues should be spent, but we would be pleased if this funded greater sports provision, " he said.
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It has been two years since my family and I moved to India full-time and, when I look around the boxy, expensive flat we rent and reflect on how I have spent my time here, inevitably I feel a bit tired.
With that in mind, we asked a trio of developers who've spent the last month with their dev kits how they feel about the console thus far, and we've compiled their thoughts below.
Perhaps never before have so many spent so much time and effort debating how we use artificial lighting, and the role of that lighting plays in our lives.
With respect to the issue of taking a tougher line, I think President Abbas and I spent most of our time discussing how do we solve the problem.
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While we don't know how much other contenders have spent through the first six months of the year, some of them could be in a financial situation similar to McCain's.
But we both keep an eye on our joint accounts (which makes good sense for a number of reasons, including monitoring identity and credit card theft), and we both discuss how our money is being saved and spent.
This week, I spent some time talking with college students about how we can make higher education more affordable.
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"What struck me when we started working with Nokia back in 2008 was how Nokia spent much more time than other device makers just strategizing, " Qualcomm Chief Executive Paul Jacobs said.
Recently, when I visited my home country of India, I spent some valuable time consolidating these items and planning how we would preserve them as a family.
So it was appropriate that we spent a lot of time talking about Twitter, given how it's become perhaps the fastest tool for people to share news with the world.
Does Mr Simon really not realise that we understand perfectly well that he probably spent time thinking about how he could use a dog as a prop to make us more inclined to warm to his views, and end up laughing at him as a result?
We have encouraged states to let people know how their tax money is being spent.
Mr. KEITH ASHDOWN (Chief Investigator, Taxpayers for Common Sense): We spent several months trying to figure out, you know, how could we make this sexy, so to speak, for the lower 48 states and for the news media.
We spent a few minutes using the LaVie Z and were quite impressed with how lightweight and well made it is.
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Mr. YUKINS: That suggests that we should use contracting vehicles that allow us as taxpayers to see how the money's being spent.
So I've spent some time thinking about how I could best advance the cause of change and progress that we so desperately need.
Thus we evaluate consumers not on their total online time, but on how much of their online time was spent engaged with social media.
Next, we took a closer look at how Americans spend their gradually shrinking discretionary dollars (as opposed to money spent on necessities like food, housing and utilities).
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