Sentences with phrase «times less labor»

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Women have less time for on - the - job labor because they spend more time doing housework than their male counterparts — so they miss out when they're working in fields that reward long hours, based on a new National Bureau for Economic Research study.

The labor force participation rate has not been this low — 63.3 percent — since 1979, a time when women were less likely to be working.

In the broadest terms, experts say, proximity to markets and skill clusters will matter more to business over time, and the nominal cost of an hour of labor will matter less.

The results bear the fruit of my labors, although wish it were a little less time consuming to pick and choose loans to get a statistically higher rate of return, w / consistency.

Contemporary aristocrats — the people with the best education and the greatest ability — labor harder than ever at their increasingly complex tasks, while people with lesser endowments of energy and intelligence now have time to spare.

Other goods will, over time, be withheld if they do not command a reasonable price, but the cheaper labor is, the less it will be withheld, because people have to live, and to hedge against the falling wages and unemployment which are always characteristic of a glutted labor market.

The Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom - based company now accomplishes the task in one - third less time with less labor by using an automated bulk bag weigh batching system with an integral flexible screw conveyor from Flexicon Europe.

The result of outsourcing is an improved quality of life for the farmer because they can focus more time on growing higher quality coffee and turning a higher profit with less physical labor.

The innovative container allows pizza shop employees to assemble boxes with less time and labor, and requires less shelf space compared to traditional paperboard boxes.

Tasks performed must take less time, labor and resources to achieve the same or better quality while also requiring less supervision.

For the first time in a while, there's something less than absolute labor peace in Major League Baseball.

Related to point # 2, in the Parenting as an Entrepreneur episode, Alicia Ybarbo said something that really stuck out to me — that women get very good at narrowing in on solutions and making split decisions because there is basically no time to labor endlessly over camp options or put up with working with someone crazy when there is a less crazy alternative.

Having a doula has proven to promote shorter and easier labors, an easier time adapting to motherhood with enhanced skills as well as less postpartum depression which is huge!

In households where the father works full time and the mother works part time or not at all, the distribution of labor when it comes to childcare and housekeeping is less balanced.

A labor that lasts less than 3 hours is termed «precipitous,» and for Liz and her husband Jason, their second child's birth took nearly half that amount of time.

This makes it less likely that you will have a miscarriage, reduces the time you will spend in labor, and makes it easier to return to your regular weight after the baby is born.

Expect several weeks to be a general guideline for healing from childbirth, but some women may need a little less or a little more time depending on how labor and delivery went.

All agree they must take on more patients to keep their practices lucrative, giving them less time to wait out a long labor.

The researchers defined active phase labor arrest as 1 cm or less of labor progress over 2 hours in women who entered labor spontaneously and were at least 4 cm dilated at the time arrest was diagnosed.

You can see how this is a lose / lose situation — hungry students have a harder time learning, and when kids skip meals which would be paid for by the federal government, the cafeteria brings in less money to help offset its fixed expenses like labor and overhead.

Either they start suddenly and are really forceful and short (6 - 8 hours from start to finish doesn't seem uncommon) so it's like having your first labor condensed into half or less of the time, or else you have on - off labor for days that annoys you and makes you think the baby is never actually going to come out but then all of a sudden things turn around and the baby's out in 1 - 3 hours.

On average, women who give birth with 24 hours of their water breaking are less likely to get an infection, meaning it can often be safer to induce labor if it hasn't began after this time period has expired.

Even as major media figures such as New York Times columnist and megaselling «flat - world» guru Thomas Friedman were trumpeting Gathering Storm's conclusions, experts in labor - power economics and research administration were voicing less publicized doubts about any purported dearth of well - trained U.S. science graduates.

It is cheaper and requires less labor than existing peptide purification methods, it can handle large batches of peptides at a time, and it generates less waste.

Then, even with a breech baby and my apprehensions about that, plus the fact that she wasn't even sitting on my cervix until that lovely time when I went from 6 - 10 centimeters in approximately 1 contraction, my labor was still a full 10 hours less than my other labors and not any more intense.

I labored this way for about an hour, though it seemed like less, as my perception of time was hazy at this point.

Information on the diets of vigorous individuals living during these times and following low - protein vegetarian diets was largely ignored.2, 3 The healthy active lives of hundreds of millions of less affluent people laboring in Asia, Africa, and Central and South America on diets with less than half the amount of protein recommended by Dr. Voit (and almost no meat), were overlooked when experts established protein requirements that still affect us today.3, 4

They get less results from working out, have a harder time doing physical labor, and have more difficulty performing sexually in the bedroom.

If the abundance of agriculture may be too much for some tastes, the film subtly reveals how farming methods grew increasingly industrialized over the years: Just as the armies of the Great War employed modern weapons like tanks and airplanes for the first time, so the Paridiers begin to use combines and tractors to yield more crops with less labor.

For the time and labor spent translating 200 pages (about the length of an average manga), less than $ 200 seems like a really terrible deal.

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a nation of remarkably productive, often well - paid workers who are becoming increasingly reluctant to pause from their labors and refresh their souls — a nation whose cash - drenched corporate employers typically don't pay for much time off (less than two weeks annually, on average), a nation whose globe - gripping federal government is the only one in the whole industrialized world not to legally require generous periods of paid kick - back - and - hang time — is a nation that's socially screwed up, particularly in comparison with European countries like France, which orders its citizens outside to play for the entire month of August and a few other weeks spread through the year.

I fearlessly assert that here the primeval forest can be converted into rich pasture and meadow land, into cultivated fields, gardens, and orchards, containing every variety of produce, with half the labor, and, what is of more importance, in less than half the time that would be required at home, even though there we had clear instead of forest ground to commence upon.

Although focussed on the UK, there is much surprising information, the first being that a major cost is the value of time that employed scientists spend reading the stuff (the time of the unemployed and retired, but Eli repeats himself, having lesser value), # 34bn, other free labor that has a real cost is # 1.9 bn for unpaid peer reviews.

Regular reference checks were less likely, but still probable, for skilled - labor, part - time, temporary, and seasonal positions.

By saving time on intensive labor hours spent reviewing resumes, sorting CVs, scheduling interviews and manually transferring candidates into different HRMS systems; an ATS can help yield higher - quality candidates for less over time.

Differential selection is measured by including respondent's gender (female; male), respondent's education at the time of entry into marriage (high school graduate; some college; college graduate), spouse's education at the time of entry into marriage (less than high school education; high school graduate; attended but did not complete college; college graduate), father's occupation (unskilled labor; farming; skilled labor; white collar; professional), and childhood health (fair or less; good; excellent).