Complicating matters for the Knicks is the poor efficiency of the man who has supplanted Stoudemire as starter, Iman Shumpert, whose 0.87 points per shot is last on the team.

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"I believe that if a man has a normal and happy family, his working efficiency is always good, " he says.

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The word "secretary" conjures up images of a bygone era, of pearls and sweater sets, sensible heels and knee-length skirts, and the right mixture of efficiency and self-effacement to fade into the background while acting as a powerful man's right hand.

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Excluding the engine, where efficiency will reach Italian levels only when a new engine plant is opened, it takes around 21 man-hours to build a Palio in Betim, or about two hours more than it would at Melfi, the firm's most modern Italian plant.

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" In his popular essay, "In Praise of Idleness, " the 20th century philosopher, Bertrand Russell, lamented modern man's loss of his capacity for play, seeing it as having been erased by the "cult of efficiency.

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