After all, nobody thought recycling or more efficient appliances with higher price tags would ever catch on either.
One way companies are dealing with volatile energy costs and compensating for delays in power line construction is by making the grid "smarter, " or more efficient.
Professionalization of a teaching profession that merely focuses on getting better PISA test scores or more efficient teaching of a common core curriculum will do no better than what we have now, and probably worse.
Growth can be generated either by increased inputs of capital and labour or by more efficient use of those inputs as a result of new technology or better management.
Such a rule is not likely to improve private investment decision-making or promote more efficient markets.
Economies can get truly richer only through increased productivity growth, either from technological advances or from more efficient production thanks to international trade.
But they have only the vaguest notion of whether the doctors are making their communities as healthy as they can, or whether they are more or less efficient than their counterparts elsewhere.
However, if the added cost gave you 22.5 more days in the office and 24 fewer nights on the road each year (per passenger), would you be able to complete another deal or implement more efficient programs elsewhere in your business?
For example, customers can choose to download applications that assist them in driving more safely or in a more fuel efficient manner, possibly decreasing the costs of vehicle ownership.
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But as a business owner, does your cell phone make you more or less efficient?
They are almost always repeals and almost never ideas to replace or strengthen entitlements or make more them efficient.
For one, an investment in housing, quite unlike capital committed to technology or medicine, will not cure cancer or make us more efficient.
All of that information makes markets more or less efficient, which is another way of saying that the prices of most things accurately reflect what they are truly worth.
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.
Some would rather hoard cash or buy back their own shares than spend it on more efficient machinery or information technology.
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These people are working on projects that will merge duplicate systems or otherwise make us more efficient.
It said large forces were no more efficient or effective than smaller ones, and the country's largest force, the Metropolitan Police, was also the worst-performing.
Sometimes it may be able to afford this because it becomes more efficient or enjoys a more co-operative labour force as a result of union recognition.
The rule requires public utility transmission providers to participate in a regional transmission planning process and coordinate to determine if there are more efficient or cost-effective solutions to their mutual transmission needs.
The idea is to provide faster, more efficient, or more accessible capital to groups that previously did not have such access.
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One focus will be on "outliers" - NHS Trusts and individual hospitals that seem notably more, or less, efficient than most.
If consumers were really better off with more efficient cars or appliances, they would buy them without a prod from government.
It's not clear to me that the best Australian universities are any better than they were or for that matter, more efficient.
The economics of such measures are further improved because some ports give discounts or special privileges to more fuel efficient (and less polluting) ships.
And if you think it makes you look more efficient (or important) to be continually checking your laptop or cell phone for messages, think again.
This approach works well for those that believe that segments of the stock market that are more aggressive or tax-efficient should be held in various accounts.
Mr Miliband accused Mr Cameron of having "no idea" how he was going to find the money to make homes more energy efficient or for any of the other proposals.
With PACE financing, the property owner agrees to repay the cost of improvements such as a more efficient chiller or rooftop solar panels through an annual property tax assessment lasting up to 20 years.
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Putting in new air conditioning or heating units that are much more efficient.
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