What is the value of the loss of leisure time if some of the new spending results in the employment of previously idle resources?
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To the extent the individuals consider recessions to be a period of increased leisure, the bulk of the leisure increase shows up as an increase of time in these two categories.
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Nakamura and Wong started GR in 1994 as a "zine" -- one of thousands of underground publications born in an age of cheap photocopying, home computers and a healthy amount of leisure time.
Mr Gershuny (who was not at the conference) points out that in Britain, as in many other developed countries, there has been a steady increase since the 1960s in the amount of leisure time spent outside the house.
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Even as sites like Google-owned YouTube have emerged as viable entertainment options, the move is a nod to a basic truth of leisure time: The estimated 4 billion television users worldwide is still a much bigger customer base than those using the internet.
Loss of leisure time: Priceless.
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Adult hardback books, meanwhile, are off 1.5% since 1997, a sign of the increasing amount of people's leisure time eaten up by the Web, DVDs and the proliferation of television channels.
Although people value their income in relation to that of others, this does not seem to be true of their leisure time.
There is also the web control element to endpoint security, which protects users from malicious webpages, phishing links and sets up a time frame from leisure use of computers during non-working hours.
Since the average adult spends more than 90 percent of their leisure time sitting down, we should focus on trying to take more opportunities to stand during our daily activities especially when we eat, drive, are at work, or when we watch TV.
Prosperity, wider education, the onslaught of international media, instant telecommunications, travel and more leisure time have opened up the eyes and minds of the discerning electorate not only in Singapore and Japan, but all over the world.
Nintendo and Sony are fighting the old war while the guerrilla attacks from mobile and social game companies steal a few seconds more of the consumer leisure time with each passing day.
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"Gaining more leisure time has been one of modern society's great achievements, " he says.
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The foundation of this plan is a growing leisure class of retired people with ample savings and limitless time and means for travel.
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When women are not working for pay, these statistics show that they are spending relatively more time on the so-called "second shift" of household and caregiving activities while men are enjoying relatively more leisure time.
The life of the sarariman, Japan's devoted company employee and symbol of its post-war economic miracle, leaves little time for leisure or the family.
The company's last president, Katsuaki Watanabe, tried to keep out of the limelight during his stint, spending his leisure time singing in a men's choir.
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Despite an ever-increasing number of accomplished female athletes, and despite the legion of female sports fans with both discretionary income and leisure time, women have yet to be regularly recognized as valued consumers, as valued as the men targeted by unimaginative, sexist campaigns.
Seven months after it closed the ruling Labour group lost control of the city council for the first time in 28 years with the leisure centre seen as a key factor.
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This loss of identity cannot be compensated for by unemployment benefits or increased leisure time.
Beyond this, the world market for films will continue to grow with the increase in leisure time and income, and with cinema building and the spread of television ownership.
He even has a Reaganesque taste in leisure, making sure that he has plenty of rest, and time spent clearing brush on his ranch.
When he left in 1995 to become chief operating officer of MBf Capital, Leisure Holidays had become a fast-growing operation selling time-share property across Asia.
But to "make sure we aren't charged at any time and there's no confusion" the entire leisure centre was "completely out of bounds" for the school's 1, 200 pupils during school hours.
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Dr. HAYES: Well, it's very complicated, why the - and I appreciate my colleague also chiming in, but some of it is they have been exposed to often - and had the leisure time try to pursue healthier pursuits.
Local and national newspapers in every country, including the United States where I worked as a journalist for more than 20 years, face the same alarming prospect - readers being slowly drained off by competing leisure activities, including television, our favourite activity that consumes more of our time than any thing else except sleeping.
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My economy is full of frictions that I as a member of the free agent nation struggle to deal with in the time I can allocate to work and leisure.
Mr Meredith, who at the time was the elected mayor of Stoke-on-Trent, offered to close the council-run leisure centre Dimensions, and pay Waterworld a subsidy so that people could swim there at discounted prices.
Hilton Romanski is Vice President of Global Corporate Development at Cisco Systems - a busy and demanding job that means his leisure time is precious.
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