The paper-less office and the cash-less society have long been held up as desirable outcomes of mass computerization.
In other words, there is less mindless paper-shuffling and more dealing with customers, suppliers and other humans.
Our research consistently demonstrates that short-term (five year maturity or less) paper has historically a much better risk-return tradeoff than long-term bonds.
From the standpoint of paper-hungry managers, however, there is less here than meets the eye.
They can be made at room temperature, unlike a silicon chip, and paper is a lot less pricey than electronics-grade silicon.
Tests have shown that even slight changes in paper content will cause people to order more -- or less -- due to their perception of the quality of the product.
Old-style cages only had 550 square centimetres of space for each bird - which is less than a sheet of A4 paper.
Lighter-coloured pixels denote less pen pressure on the paper, so differences between samples indicate different patterns of pen pressure and thus the likelihood that different authors were involved.
James de Lemos of the Univeristy of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, first author of the JAMA paper, says patients in A to Z were getting less-aggressive treatment than those in other trials.
The stated intention of this policy is to introduce more inflation as a means to potentially stimulate economic activity, but it also provides a means to pay back the large amassed debts with less valuable paper currency without having to deal with the short-term pain of actual default.
Among drawings by less well known artists is an oil on paper by Louis Jean-Jacques Durameau which captures the hard and heavy labour of workers in a paper mill.
But then, in 1971, Richard Nixon replaced a more-or-less solid dollar, vaguely backed by gold, with a pure paper dollar, backed by nothing but the good intentions of government employees.
"On paper the subway is a lot faster, but buses are less crowded and have dedicated lanes on many streets -- I end up spending about the same amount of time on the road, " he explained.
In 2006, the company introduced a hot beverage paper cup with 10% post-consumer recycled fiber and in 2008 it rolled out a new plastic cup that has less of an environmental impact than its original plastic cups.
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