This innovation meant that farmers could spray their entire fields with RoundUp but only kill the weeds, saving a huge amount of time.
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But the same individuals reduced the amount they were saving outside retirement accounts by almost exactly the same amount, leaving total savings essentially unchanged.
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Nares and his foundation stepped in, saving them a significant amount of travel time each day.
And if I am--by sheer, crazy accident--spending and therefore saving just the right amount now--then why do I need a target at all?
As a result, they often forgo even the small incremental investments of which they are capable: a bit more fertiliser, some more schooling or a small amount of saving.
And we need to curb that in so that people really are much more living within their means and that they have a healthy amount of saving, as well as money to spend.
But for most families, talking about finances happens only rarely, and it is not socially acceptable to post the amount you are saving and investing as a status update on your Facebook page.
From the point of view of saving a given consumer the most amount of money by allowing him or her to pick and choose their channels, bundling seems like a burdensome constraint.
As a young economist, I did a fair amount of academic research on saving and insurance adequacy.
The amount of money they are saving on office space and overhead operating expenses alone, has been monumental.
The rental income figure you calculate is the amount of money you're saving by not having to rent your own home.
But what a retiree can gain by devoting their time, energy, and resources to living this time passionately can be vastly more rewarding than any amount of money that comes from saving and investing.
The gap between the amount men and women in Scotland are saving for retirement has grown to a record high, according to an annual survey.
Skipping that two-week vacation, cutting down on the amount you spend dining out, and saving your next raise or bonus, are also simple methods of adding to your emergency fund.
The Commission says this would ease funding pressures on other areas of the EU's budget, however Mr Remek said the amount of money required for GMES "is quite low compared to the amount we are prepared to spend on saving the banks".
Each patch boosted the amount of income exempt from the tax, saving millions of households from having to pay the levy.
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Just look at all the folks who wait in line and brave hoards of fellow Black Friday shoppers to save a few bucks: People will often expend more effort saving money than it would take them to earn the same amount of cash.
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Rive says Wal-Mart from day one will either be saving money with the new solar panels, or paying the same amount it had previously for electricity.
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By utilizing the oh-so-versatile Velcro, this device enables remotes, iPods, junk food, Wiimotes, caffeine pills, and an essentially limitless amount of other objects to flank your dome, theoretically saving you hours on end hunting under murky couch cushions for long lost controllers.
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They discovered that, depending on the amount of traffic in the network, devices in power-saving modes spend 60 to 80 percent of their time in idle listening.
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Consumers can reduce the amount of water through direct action - by applying a water-saving showerhead, shutting off the tap during teeth brushing, by not disposing of medicines, paints or other pollutants down the sink etc.
"If a family begins putting away for their child's college tuition their freshman year in high school, they just need to understand that they'll have to invest a larger amount of money to get as much out as someone who started saving earlier, " he says.
Congestion tolling saves motorists an enormous amount of time that would otherwise be spent stuck in traffic, thereby reducing stress, saving fuel, and making trip times much more predictable.
On the other hand, if people have a specific amount they wish to leave to their children, the estate tax might have the opposite effect, increasing saving.
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