That debts grew faster than spending among those offered cash rewards likely means people reduced their monthly payments more than they increased spending.
More games, more gamers, more people spending their time playing rather than doing all the other awful things we do.
And while teens often have summer jobs, they're more likely to focus their spending more on social activities than on pricey technology.
But those bills have been rising fast during the past six months and their cleaning contracts have been cut by more than half, as companies have reduced their spending.
Currently, nobody's spending more than their depreciation allowance.
Married couples apparently lie to one another about their spending habits more than anything else.
The last serious attempt to get a grip on their spending came more than five years ago when Norman Lamont was chancellor.
At the same time, all participants were more aware of their spending behaviors than usual, thus enabling them to cut back on unnecessary purchases.
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Instead, he and John McCain devoted more than 98% of their television ad spending and campaign events to just 15 states which together make up about a third of the U.S. population.
He said the advent of rolling 24-hour news has had a "profound effect" on policing, with commanding officers often spending more than half their time dealing with the media on high-profile cases.
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May personal income jumped 1.9%, while spending rose 0.8%, indicating consumers were saving more than twice as much of their pay as they were spending.
The poorest 10% of car-owning households in the UK are spending more than a quarter of their disposable income on buying and running a vehicle, research suggests.
In such a situation charities need to produce more bang for the buck than state spending to justify their perks.
By the midpoint of this year, research revealed that users were spending more time on their mobiles than on their computers.
He was forced to resign as a deputy chairman of the party in 2005 when he said that the Tories would cut spending more than they were promising in their election campaign.
Since defense workers in both the public and private sectors usually make more money than people employed in the construction trades, their spending probably has a stronger impact on the rest of the economy.
Whether the rise of HTML5 will lead mobile users to start spending more time with their browsers than native apps remains to be seen -- but for many mobile users, and for many apps, that distinction may start to become irrelevant.
By then those taxpayers and their preparers who are spending more time than it could possibly deserve sorting out transactions into various buckets on Form 8949 for 2011 returns will have forgotten how frustrated we are in having to do so.
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It might be thought that once consumers pay more attention to their bank balances than to gloomy economic news, spending will pick up.
"Many dads are spending far more time with their family than their own fathers did, but it is difficult for them to do more while they work such long hours, " said EOC chairwoman Julie Mellor.
"We have also published more information than ever before about how schools are performing, including their spending and results, so they can be held to account and parents really know what is going on in schools, including academies, " he added.
She sees the next generation of users spending much more time on their phones or tablets than on desktop machines.
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First, house prices have a bigger wealth effect on consumer spending, largely because more people own their homes than own shares.
You can see that many of these emerging markets need to spend as much as 30% to 50% of their income on food alone, with some spending more than that.
By borrowing from abroad, they are able to let their spending exceed their revenues by more and for longer than would be possible if their economies were closed to international finance.
Yet Congress doesn't really know whether most of these provisions accomplish their stated goals, are more or less efficient than direct government-spending programs, are claimed improperly or may even hurt the economy.
He describes how they would spy on the players, collecting their personal data and compiling information about their habits to try and trick them into spending even more than they already were.
First some gory details about entitlement spending: As the 78 million baby boomers begin retiring over the next few years, under business-as-usual scenarios, spending on their Social Security and health care will more than double by 2050 to about 18% of the GDP.
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More than half (57%) of millennials surveyed plan to at least double their spending on online workers in 2013, while 82% believe within the next 10 years many businesses will be built completely with virtual teams of online workers.
It would appear that building a strong Minor League system that produces a consistent flow of young, homegrown stars who stay with a team for their careers is a formula which produces more winning franchises than relying on high spending for aging free agents.
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