The idea that society can become more prosperous by paying more of its citizens to be idle is clearly nonsensical.
The Club Med countries have an endless supply of prime assets sitting idle, virtually all of which could be rented out in short order.
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Conglomerates with armies of idle workers must be allowed to shed them.
Much of the idle capacity could be brought back online quickly if oil companies chose to meet Renewable Fuels Standard obligations with E85 and midlevel blends rather than stockpiled RINs.
Come tell Dallas construction workers why they should be sitting idle instead of out there on the job.
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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.
Positive political surprises could be the impetus for idle cash to begin creating a virtuous cycle of more jobs and higher equity returns begetting consumption and even greater job creation.
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"We have revenue-generating units sitting idle that could be dispatched, and we're not aware of that now, " says Paul Mueller, vice president in charge of communications technology at Schneider.
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.
Indeed, other research shows that the majority of files downloaded from peer-to-peer networks simply sit idle on hard drives, never to be accessed.
But for pleasure boats, which may spend a lot of time idle, Dr Williams's team is trying to improve the formula so that a boat need not be moving so fast before the paint does its job.
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