Sentences with phrase «lower labor intensive»

That is always an issue: how to offer healthy, lower labor intensive foods to children while keeping within the budget constraints.

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While President Obama has supported a few proposals that benefit high - growth, high - tech entrepreneurs (like the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, most of his policies have been hostile to the interests of Main Street business owners, particularly those running labor - intensive businesses with low - wage employees.

Second, because consumption creates a more labor - intensive demand than investment, much lower GDP growth does not necessarily equate to much higher unemployment.

Older people tend to have a lower demand for durable goods and a higher need for services in the labor - intensive, low - productivity segments of the economy like health care.

In 1960 U.S. Catholicism enjoyed the low - cost, labor - intensive dedication of 52,689 priests and 164,922 nuns.

Pulling weeds by hand instead of using chemical weed killers is more labor - intensive in the first year or two — but it is better for soil health and can lower a farmer's greenhouse gas emissions and operating costs.

Planned out - of - hospital birth also had a statistically significant association with higher rates for 5 - minute Apgar scores of less than 7, neonatal seizures, neonatal ventilator support, maternal blood transfusion, and unassisted vaginal delivery but with lower rates of both admission to neonatal intensive care units and obstetrical interventions, including induction and augmentation of labor, operative vaginal delivery, cesarean delivery, and severe perineal lacerations.

Local, labor - intensive, low - input agriculture: It provides jobs, security, stability and food, and helps make local ecological systems robust enough to withstand the damage that's coming.

I think the evidence is pretty clear that for instance, local, labor — intensive, low - input agriculture is the smartest option from much of the world, both in terms of providing jobs, security, stability and food, and in making those ecological systems robust enough to withstand the damage that's coming, that's already here.

One of the major challenges preventing researchers from efficiently generating and studying these genetic diseases is that they can exist at frequencies as low as one - in - a-thousand, making the task of finding and studying them labor - intensive.

The process is also labor - intensive with low yield rates.

Formative and summative assessments Old - fashioned assessments consume much valuable class - time, are either simple - minded in construction or labor intensive to evaluate, rarely work well across a broad range of students (it takes far too many questions to differentiate at the low and high ends as well as in the middle), and their turnaround is too slow to yield useful information when you really need it.

But auto experts wonder why Apple would want to get involved in a capital - intensive low - margin business that involves heavy manufacturing, globalized labor unions, strict government oversight and dozens of other issues as foreign to Silicon Valley as snowstorms and pickup trucks.

Look, these fees, sales deals, and low quantities at bookstores will not have you light cigars with hundred dollar bills, and they are very labor intensive, but catering to brick and mortar stores is something an Indie Author should do for several reasons — to build some local cache, get more experience pitching his or her art, and garnering that genuinely terrific feeling of seeing your work on the shelf of a reputable bookstore.

Only the top 1000 or so bestselling works were checked, as this was labor - intensive and became less important with the lower rankings.

If it becomes easier to unionize, that can affect wage rates and productivity even more as work rules bite into effectiveness and flexibility of work; both of these can lower profits in labor - intensive businesses.

As the Vanguard researchers wrote: «An investor who had simply redirected his or her portfolio's income would have achieved most of the risk - control benefits of more labor - and transaction - intensive rebalancing strategies at a much lower cost.»

We all know that our field is labor intensive and low - waged.

It is a labor intensive process and often has a low success rate.

Using low - tech (but labor - intensive) methods and material, sculptor Tristin Lowe (American, b. 1966) has created a moon to fill the Museum's lower Farago Gallery by covering an inflatable sphere, twelve - and - a-half feet in diameter, in white felt.

After the adrenaline rush and press attention of the Biennial opening, Satterwhite is back at work in his Lower Manhattan Cultural Council studio, laboring on yet another computer - intensive project.

Having said that, it's generally expected to pass — the Labor Party, The Greens, and several independents have said they'll support it, and the opposition (generally opposed to anything climate - related) don't have the numbers to block it, although they've promised to repeal it if elected in 2013 (although the total package has been cleverly built, so to repeal it, they'll have to promise to raise taxes on the low & middle income brackets, cut aged & disability pensions, and rely on the «goodwill» of large corporations to lower prices for electricity & other carbon - intensive goods).

These trends are combining with economic developments — including the lowering of grain support prices in recent years, the rising wages in off - farm employment that pull labor from agriculture, and the shift to more intensive cropping, such as vegetable production, to reduce China's grain harvest.

While I appreciate the heroic efforts of lawyers like Andre who devote their time (and let's not kid ourselves: Supreme Court litigation is time and labor intensive) at no charge to bringing cases to the Supreme Court, let's not forget that there's a need for resources at the lower level.

The brute - force, labor intensive legal delivery model is being replaced by a digitized one where repetitive tasks are automated; products are replacing many services; delivery cycles are compressed; costs are reduced and / or proportionate to supply and demand; and lawyers are deployed to perform tasks that require differentiated judgment, skills, or knowledge and / or working from more efficient, lower - cost tech - enabled delivery models.

Professions that are manual labor intensive have much lower occupational class ratings than the professions listed above.

I do have to say that Pittsburgh is a low - income neighborhood and can be labor intensive.