Many of those who idle about for the full two years do so because they face intractable problems, such as drug addiction, homelessness and early childbearing.
There has been, at various times, idle speculation about a wide-range of intriguing but highly unlikely potential suitors.
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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.
The separate throttle is split to control both engines individually, and offers detents that tell you when you're about to idle the engines and when you're about to light the afterburner (which can be removed if you're in a non-afterburning jet -- like indeed the A-10C is).
I'm not talking about an idle hope that's little more than blind optimism or willful ignorance of the problems we face.
In her idle moments she daydreams about becoming a figure skater like those she has seen on television, gliding effortlessly across the ice in a flash of sequins.
"Right now, your car is idle, just sitting, parked about 96 percent of the time, " explains Amory Lovins.
This gives business managers an opportunity to improve budgeting for projects, without having to worry about utilization rates or idle hours if there is a gap in demand.
Firms may be less likely to increase investment when they have idle capacity and when they are less confident about the future demand for their products and services.
MS. ZICHAL: Through a Department of Interior report that was issues yesterday, what we learned is, for offshore leases about 70 percent, and about 50 percent onshore leases remain idle.
The Idle Alarm reminds you to get up and move about every so often to keep your body from slowly atrophying at your desk.
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And truly about what it's about -- shaves, haircuts, idle chatter -- as well as deeper and sweeter things barely hinted at in the first few conventional minutes.
Everyone comes in because everyone knows how important it is to share ideas and have idle chit-chat as well as important conversations about the projects everyone on the team is working on.
For example, Southwest Airlines cut the amount of idle time for its planes at the gate by about 50%, which produced a huge fuel savings and dramatically increased plane utilization (one of the highest cost drivers in the airline industry), without negatively impacting service quality.
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So much for the complaints I sometimes hear in Asia about the U.S. being in idle retreat from that part of the world.
Most traditional servers do nothing for about 90% of their lives and continue to burn about half their peak energy consumption even while idle.
One day while fishing in the Yellowstone River, Field thought about his big, expensive--and mostly idle--press.
Mr Clerc says that although Maersk, for its part, is not about to start such a war, it would not stand idle if others started to munch its market share.
First Solar plans to idle half of its German factory and has applied for a government assistance program to put about 1, 200 employees there on a part-time work schedule, the company said Thursday.
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