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The potential energy savings is very, very significant.
If people can find that that sub-prime product has been transferred across nations many, many times until it ends up in banks in Iceland or the rest in Britain, and people's ordinary savings are affected by it, then you cannot rely on a system of national supervision.
It took us 50 years to reach annual savings ratings of almost 10 percent.
Do you know why savings was so high?
What happened, though, over the course of the last 20 years, we went from a 10 percent savings rate to a negative savings rate.
What we're seeing is an uptake in the savings rate.
In fact, 11 straight months of savings have happened since the beginning of the crisis.
If just three percent of the carbon locked up in the arctic permafrost is released as the world warms, it would offset all the savings that we need to make, in carbon, over the next 40 years to avoid runaway climate change.
He had to mortgage all his life savings to make a bank loan.
Water savings can come from unexpected places.
Reserves are like savings accounts.
If it's so clear that these savings accounts are good for the environment and for people, why don't we have 20, 50 percent of the ocean?
It's the savings accounts versus the debit accounts with no deposits.
And because it's a savings account, it becomes an asset that she can borrow against.
I'm teaching them to force that savings habit.
And in the mean time, personal savings absolutely plummeted.
The savings ratio, net savings, were below zero in the middle of 2008, just before the crash.
This is people expanding debt, drawing down their savings, just to stay in the game.
And politicians call on us continually to draw down more debt, to draw down our own savings even further, just so that we can get the show back on the road, so we can keep this growth-based economy going.
It appears that Grant tries to scheme his best friend, Nigel Bruce, out of part of his life savings.
On the present days, Karen Tunny (Lori Heuring) has just lost her husband after a long period of terminal disease when the family savings have been spent in the treatment.
I call these films with Michael Caine his holiday house films as I always reckon he agrees to do them because he has seen a house he likes and doesn't want to spend his savings.
That the richer-than-God Brian Glazer didn't see the irony of having the "heroes" do exactly what the villain does - rob honest, hardworking people of their life savings - doesn't surprise me!
This amusing, sometimes poignant look at the Hollywood detective genre of the 1940's and 1950's stars Robert Sacci as an unnamed former cop who retires, uses his life savings to pay for plastic surgery to transform his image into that of his idol, Humphrey Bogart, then sets up shop as a private eye under the name "Sam Marlowe".
Johnny Halliday is very good as the charismatic Hud, a notorious hand with the gun returning to Blackstone to investigate the death of his brother, who was lynched by the townspeople for losing their savings.
The people who are praising this film are the real disappointments -- I am hoping at least that Leonard will see some good $$ out of this, as his life savings were embezzled away by a manager a couple of years ago and he's over 70 now.
He makes the mistake of also taking the life savings of the maid, whom he has promised to marry.
The story is set in the immediate post WW1 period and starts with two married London ladies who decide to pool their savings and enjoy a holiday together, away from their families, in a rented villa in Italy.
Otto is staying at the hotel because he only has a short time to live, so he takes his entire life savings and decides to live the rest of his life in luxury.
So, Claire begins to hire housekeepers with no known or remaining family, and kills them to appropriate all of their savings for herself - but not before burying them in her beloved garden and promptly planting pine trees over the graves.
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