It is rather as though a household with lots of cash sitting idle in a low-interest bank account was at the same time paying a much higher interest rate on its debts.
In Maine, Freeport Ski and Bike shop co-owner Jamie Richardson saw a lot of people get skis tuned that looked like they'd been sitting idle for a while.
The rest are free to idle through a brief coda to their long subterranean lives.
In terms of football autobiographies, Fallen Idle has a brutal honesty reminiscent of Tony Adams' Addicted.
In some places these dwellings may sit idle for a while, keeping downward pressure on property prices.
That system led to the discovery that most lead time was being dissipated as parts sat idle on a dock somewhere.
Most of the Cisco equipment you buy sits idle quite a bit of the time: by virtualizing it, you can improve performance and lower your equipment costs at the same time.
"What you could measure is the productivity of assets that are left idle for a day - the ship that doesn't get built and so on, " Prof Mayhew adds, with the caveat that the British economy is far less dependent on building things like ships than it was half a century ago.
For comparison, an old Dell business desktop gave us 41dBa at idle, a PlayStation 3 gave us 42dBa and an original Xbox 360 (not Elite) gave us 47.8dbA. It's said that a 10dB gain is perceived by human ears as a doubling of volume, which seems about right -- the Xbox sounded far louder than our HTPC.
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There has been, at various times, idle speculation about a wide-range of intriguing but highly unlikely potential suitors.
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Separating real threats from idle talk is a workaday task for law enforcement.
How the rule might work has now been fleshed out, and it is both easier on the idle rich and a messier piece of tax policy than one might have imagined.
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Boeing said in a statement that the fire was traced to a battery unit that helps power electrical systems when the engines are idle -- typically while a plane is being serviced or cleaned.
Boeing said the fire was traced to a battery unit that helps to power electrical systems when the engines are idle -- typically while a plane is being serviced or cleaned.
Slow steaming has created work for a lot of ships that would otherwise have been idle, explains Vincent Clerc, a Maersk executive.
There is quite a lot of idle talk about the world not ending on 1 March and that everything will be sorted out in a couple of weeks.
Mr Shelbrooke told me he has widespread support from ordinary people and has been unfairly portrayed as a right-wing Tory who believes idle scroungers should be stopped from living a life of unearned luxury.
Buit I certainly found it an idle way of wasting a few minutes.
He was charged with being idle and disorderly in a public place.
Outside an idle workshop, against a backdrop of rusty pipes, several elderly women are taking part in a government-funded public-works scheme.
But just as in the old days, Lanegan and Dulli are so inherently earnest that "Idle Hands" becomes a pulpy hard-rock classic.
By reducing the need to idle and accelerate from a standstill, the system purports to save gas: In tests conducted in Cambridge, Mass.
Paul Kasonkomona pleaded not guilty at the magistrate's court in the capital, Lusaka, to the charges - being idle and disorderly in a public place.
Along with cutting full-time firefighter posts, other recommendations include closing Haworth fire station in Bradford and merging Shipley and Idle fire stations to a new site.
What with record low interest rates, idle construction workers and a huge backlog of worthy projects, there has never been a better time to invest in infrastructure.
Heidi Reimer-Epp, chief executive of paper manufacturer Botanical PaperWorks in Winnipeg, Manitoba, says she sometimes quiets the buzz on her Up idle alert by doing a few jumping jacks in the office.
The first Aoyama work one encounters is "Idle Evening, " a poem by the Chinese Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi, first exhibited in 1938 by the prestigious Taito Shodoin calligraphic association when the artist was in his 20s.
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