It's a bit difficult to master, but we find it's more efficient if you put a little bit of your fingernail into it -- not too much, of course, you don't want to scratch your precious reader.
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Still, he reasons, it's more efficient to dedicate time to one application than 15 separate applications.
It works because it's fun, social, creative and easy and it's massively more efficient, both in cost and labor, than traditional fund raising techniques.
At 184 horsepower, the base, four-cylinder engine is slightly less powerful than the 2001 Cherokee's base V6, but it's much more efficient.
"It's much more efficient to obtain protein by eating plants rather than animals, " he said.
It's far more efficient than most national electricity grids, which rely on large central power stations to send electricity exclusively in one direction from the power stations to the final customer.
It's also a more efficient technology, lowering operational costs, which could mean lower monthly fees for customers.
It's more power-efficient than an Intel Core i5, which is built around two to four quick, versatile cores that compute one instruction at a time.
"Instead of pan-roasting 10 chickens, with barbecue you're cooking a large piece of meat all at once, it's a bit more efficient, " says Mr. Perry Lang, founder and former owner of Daisy May's BBQ in New York City.
In his latest book, tech pundit Nicholas Carr put a name on a trend that's transforming information technology: As the world becomes more networked, he points out, computing power is undergoing "the Big Switch, " moving off of desktops and into massive data centers, where it's cheaper and more efficient.
More recently, a somewhat overlapping group of tech heavyweights called the Green Grid, including Intel, HP, Dell, Microsoft, IBM, Sun and AMD, announced a "roadmap" for the IT industry's adoption of more efficient data center hardware.
It's also more energy-efficient: The Twenty generates little heat and, in our tests, drew less than 1.5 watts on standby (the AirPort Express pulled more than twice that), which means you can in good conscience leave the Twenty plugged in and turned on, ready to play on a whim.
It's really very consonant with what used to be done in sort of Victorian and post-Victorian England and Germany and in the United States, which was the idea that children have to be sort of trained to go to the toilet, and the sooner it's done, the better the training and the more efficient it will be, and that was kind of the practice.
It could not only help businesses like OPOWER to help consumers make their homes more energy efficient, it's also going to create business for the local contractors and the companies hired to upgrade homes.
Maybe it's a placebo effect, but I think I'm more efficient, more focused, and it adds a little spice to an otherwise lonely profession.
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It's good to be efficient, because a huge payroll is even more useful if none of it is wasted, but it isn't necessary, at least in the Bronx.
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It also makes small practices like Rothkopf's more efficient.
And just looking around, this looks like a fun place to work. (Laughter.) The work you do here, as we just heard, is making homes more energy efficient, it's saving people money, it's generating jobs and it's putting America on the path to a clean energy future.
While he's at it, he wants Ford to become more efficient by selling the same vehicles worldwide, instead of different models for different regions.
It's going to sell more windmills and energy-efficient diesel locomotives.
"Glasgow has some quite extreme challenges - it has the lowest life expectancy of any city in the UK for instance - and the hope is that if we bring together energy, transport, public safety and health it will make it more efficient and a better place to live, " said Scott Cain, the TSB's project leader for Future Cities.
Visit the Topfer Manufacturing Center in Austin (named after former vice chairman Mort Topfer), and it's hard to conceive how Dell could be any more efficient.
The TL500's AMOLED display is also more efficient when it comes to power consumption, allowing photographers to maximize battery life and shoot longer on a single charge.
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It's true that Advantage could be better run to favor the more efficient commercial carriers that are restraining health spending in some parts of the country.
It's likely there will be considerable unemployment as industries have to become more efficient.
It's not something 'extra' they work on, but a more efficient way of doing what they already do.
And that's why part of my health care reform bill two years ago was let's start changing how our health care system works to make it more efficient.
It's doing this by hastening its move from trucks and SUVs to more fuel efficient vehicles, along with other cost cuts.
For the heating of homes and businesses, which accounts for about half of Scotland's energy use, it said there would have to be a shift to more efficient systems and insulation.
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