In terms of time efficiency, the U.S. Department of Transportation estimates that people spend on average 52 minutes each working day commuting.
Large firms will probably be able to cope with these laws, albeit at a cost in time and efficiency.
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At the same time, efficiency programs are pushing more efficient light bulbs, air conditioners and other devices into homes.
This is at a time when efficiency has become a business fixation.
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Can we spur economic growth in this country while at the same time improving the efficiency of our energy infrastructure?
As a result, the workflow has gone from sometimes waiting days to retrieve records that were archived off site, to accessing the same files in two or three seconds -- saving time, creating efficiency and improving customer service, McNeil said.
And we now have across the country people working in factories making advanced batteries that are going into American-made cars, because what we also did at the same time was we raised fuel-efficiency standards on cars and trucks for the first time in 30 years.
From a time-saving and efficiency point of view, that just makes good business sense.
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Yet using them in various combinations sucks up time, space and efficiency and consumes billions of dollars in infrastructure.
Gelb is notorious among colleagues for his work habits, which involve pre-dawn e-mail sessions and a ruthless efficiency with time.
But he started talking about energy efficiency and about refrigerators, and he pointed out that the government set modest targets a couple decades ago to start increasing efficiency over time.
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This dramatically improves application response time and data-center efficiency.
This has significant cost implications for the NHS at a time when we have to make efficiency savings.
The growth sector for the last quarter century has been light trucks, a category in which fuel efficiency has deteriorated over time.
We were able, over the last two years, to increase for the first time in 30 years fuel-efficiency standards on cars and trucks.
Zero to 60mph sprint time is 4 seconds with 20mpg efficiency on the highway neither are small feats for a machine that weighs 6, 400 pounds.
The Energy Bill that President Bush signed into law Wednesday mandates an increase in automotive fuel efficiency for the first time in 32 years.
How to achieve such a whopping increase in efficiency over so short a time?
On the demand side, it could promote market-led efficiency by encouraging real-time metering of all electricity use.
And those with lower sleep efficiency, the amount of time they spent in bed asleep, were at higher risk too.
Change is finally doing something about our addiction to oil and raising fuel-efficiency standards for the first time in 30 years.
The productivity gains wrought by the downturn will without a doubt make U.S. businesses more efficient, and their efficiency is what will in time attract future job-creating investment.
At the same time he rails against globalisation for emphasising economic efficiency too much.
He offered a sobering reminder to a room full of professionals who spend their time making well-reasoned arguments about energy efficiency and complain about the pace of change.
In management , firms might spend less time on the 20th Century preoccupation with improving efficiency rather than on the 21st Century challenge of generating customer delight through continuous innovation.
So my objection is, one, the money rather than looked at in a way it was intended as an investment in low-income housing, ADA accessibility, energy efficiency that will pay back over time, it was about a 45-minute discussion.
People, low income or otherwise, tend to ignore their utility until the bill gets too high or the power goes off, he said, and he wonders if people are going to spend time trying to manage their use and implement efficiency measures.
They reflect the demands of consumers who spend an inordinate amount of time on the road and want better fuel efficiency without compromising performance, seamless digital connectivity and at least the promise of a car that runs on electricity and is fun to drive.
This is a company that is specializing in LED lighting, has been extraordinarily effective in driving down the costs of high-efficiency lighting that is, over time, I think going to make a huge difference, not just for businesses who use the technology, but also for a country that needs to figure out how do we operate in a more energy-efficient way.
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