"The world's getting more obsessed with eco, " said Gutsche, in this case the idea of saving paper and conserving trees.

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Mr. Ardo told us the state has an interest in saving the paper to protect jobs as well as a free press.

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As of January 1st 2012, the Treasury Department eliminated the ability to purchase paper saving bonds.

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Lenovo has committed to packaging reduction, recently reducing packaging material by 20 percent of yearly volume, saving an additional 10 paper coffee cups per box shipped.

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Besides the obvious paper-saving measures, iTravel could help skip key parts of the airport security line by providing passport information, a fingerprint or anything else screeners might want to see while we'd otherwise be juggling our suitcases.

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Long term the school is saving money on photocopying, paper, pens and eventually, books.

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Premium sandwiches like the Big N' Tasty are now put in boxes rather than paper wrappers, saving a few seconds, and the boxes are color coded by sandwich to improve speed and accuracy.

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In the case of Warehouse 13, they were able to save something like 300, 000 of those half-million sheets of paper, which is the equivalent of saving about 36 or 37 trees.

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"A special operation is in progress in Cyprus, and its goal is far from saving the economy or the banking system, " the paper says.

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Commercial paper became the rage in the 1960s as a means of borrowing short-term money and saving interest costs by bypassing the banks.

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