In the latest study, the researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health asked 189 young men who were students at a university in New York to record how many hours they had been spending doing physical activity and watching TV in a typical week.
Most prefer not to cut spending because doing so would anger someone somewhere.
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Also, a consumption tax of 15 percent would not be moderate, nor, very likely, would it do anything but fuel greater spending while doing nothing to reduce debt.
"It makes you feel like life is so short that spending it doing things you don't want to be doing is just a waste of time, " Kim said.
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England practised at the Gabba for the first time on Tuesday, spending an hour doing fielding drills around a wicket that looks surprisingly green before spending a further two hours in the nets.
You know, spending your time doing things like "Sesame Street" ensures that some people in the audiences will know who you are.
While some job seekers may feel guilty about spending free time doing anything besides looking for employment, exploring interests can be rejuvenating -- and potentially rewarding -- during a trying time.
Former Luzerne County (Pennsylvania) Judge Mark Ciavarella has been spending his time doing odd jobs for a car towing service while awaiting sentencing since being found guilty on felony corruption charges.
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Spending a lot time doing company post-mortems has given me a new appreciation for understanding the exact role of the stakeholders.
"What they might be doing is spending thousands of dollars to save hundreds, " says Jack Nerad, the executive director of Kelley Blue Book's kbb.com.
Numenera itself sounds like my kind of tabletop game streamlined enough to make action and story the primary focus rather than spending all your time doing making elaborate modifier calculations.
"They're competing against people who are training to be soldiers and spending hours every day doing military exercises, " says Marling "Newt" Engle, a member of the NCAA Rifle Committee, of the UCSciences team.
You know, if all we're doing is spending and we're not making things, then over time other countries are going to get tired of lending us money and eventually the party is going to be over.
Those benefits are not just the direct impact of jobs at the companies doing the spending, but, for instance, jobs in construction to build a new factory, or in the retail and restaurant businesses that can flourish when a big company opens a new office or factory.
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Major advertisers including Ford, Coca-Cola and T-Mobile are either pulling their spending from NOTW or considering doing so.
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So, is it a good thing that Americans were doing all that spending last weekend, wherever that money was coming from?
But the fiscal cave will only worsen deficits by causing economic stagnation which is a long term deficit growth driver, while doing nothing about spending.
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"Many parts of the world are suffering lack of consumer confidence, a lack of spending, and countries are doing what they can to manoeuvre through that, " he said.
He later became a neuroscientist, now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spending most of his career doing basic research on how the brain's cells form connections during learning.
Over the years, he has traveled to India, Sri Lanka, China, Ethiopia, Egypt, Sumatra and South Africa, spending weeks in a region doing three tastings a day, with 200 cups per tasting.
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Mr Wood argues that China is doing more to boost domestic consumption (for example, through incentives to stimulate purchases of cars and consumer durables, and increased health-care spending) than America is doing to boost its saving.
We need to restore some balance between saving and spending and, right now, everything we're doing - media, policies - have skewed it toward spending and spending on credit.
So far, it is the government that has been doing most of the spending.
More games, more gamers, more people spending their time playing rather than doing all the other awful things we do.
"You were spending more time fighting politics than doing design, " said Alastair Curtis, Nokia's chief designer from 2006 to 2009.
But unlike the late 90s, these days incubators are doing fewer deals and spending much more time evaluating the business model and monetizing the idea.
Doing it right means spending a lot of hours thinking about your tolerance for risk, your career path, your plans for retirement, your taxes and your family situation.
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