Instead, they have been allowed to spend that time doing community service.
Silly games, a bare-boned word processor that helped me become a fledgling writer, and a machine to play around on and tinker with that helped shape a part of who I was as a person by shaping what I enjoyed to spend my time doing.
Rather than lamenting the fall of American dominance or putting up regulatory road blocks to prevent the sale of the NYSE, it would be better for business leaders to spend their time doing something about the root cause of the problem and rethinking how their organizations are being managed.
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And so I think that one of the challenges we had two years ago was we had to move so fast, we were in such emergency mode, that it was very difficult for us to spend a lot of time doing victory laps and advertising exactly what we were doing, because we had to move on to the next thing.
This ten year contraction has been forcing our highly skilled researchers to spend more time raising money than doing the research they spent decades training for, is encouraging established researchers to leave our shores in search of greater funding opportunities or to leave research altogether, and is discouraging the younger generation from embarking on a career in science.
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He is -- that allows him to spend even more of his time doing the job that he was elected to do.
Private banks in the region also have to spend a great deal of time doing due diligence on potential new clients, since regulations on money laundering are becoming stricter and Asians are often secretive about the origins of their wealth.
Well, that is what American treasury secretaries have to spend the larger part of their time doing.
Rather than spend a day travelling by bus to the nearest bank, recipients in rural areas can spend their time doing more productive things.
We all get in the run up to general elections hundreds and hundreds of requests to fill in questionnaires, to sign declarations, we could spend our time doing nothing else, a lot of MPs quite honourably take the view, that's it, they, they just don't engage in that.
And as much as I can I try to spend time with young people, and I love doing that.
If many aging executives retire to spend quality time with their families, the Icahns are doing the opposite.
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Since you may have a lot of time on your hands for the next couple of days, you might want to print this out so you can spend some of that time doing disaster tax planning, after the power goes out.
The project aims to deliver improved comfort for drivers, who can now spend their time doing other things while driving.
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Because I would rather companies in China spend their compliance time and dollars doing due diligence to protect against agency liability.
The rest of your life is going to pass by regardless of what you choose to do with your time each day, so why not spend it doing something that would immeasurably enrich your experience of being alive (not to mention the lives of those around you)?
Professor PETER CAPPELLI (Professor of Business Management, University of Pennsylvania): If you really want to be effective as an organization, you shouldn't spend an awful lot of time trying to ferret out what employees are doing that's not productive, and instead, you should just be trying to measure and monitor how much, in fact, they're actually getting done.
Doing so will help you understand where to spend your precious time, effort and money.
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Critzer said she had been trying to increase the time that students spend on independent practice during classes, and she thought she was doing a good job.
In particular, the Danes find nothing terribly controversial in the idea of a national health identification number, which they already have, and spend little time worrying about how to fund the new systems, since their tax kroner are doing that.
More than athletes in any other sport, baseball players spend an inordinate amount of time standing around doing nothing and just waiting for something to break the monotony.
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The average citizen's goal is to lead a life that minimizes the need to interact with law enforcement or spend time hanging out at a police precinct, but my memories of doing so are wholly pleasant.
Players that want to join groups and take on boss monsters for shots at special loot and work up gradually over time by doing quests, buying packs with in game currency, and acquiring gold to spend in the Auction House, that option is there too.
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Right now in Africa we spend time with groups in civil society, with groups who are using technology to inform themselves better on what governments are doing and holding them to account.
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