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You could take the money you're spending on those unnecessary things and give it to this organization, the Against Malaria Foundation, which would take the money you had given and use it to buy nets like this one to protect children like this one, and we know reliably that if we provide nets, they're used, and they reduce the number of children dying from malaria, just one of the many preventable diseases that are responsible for some of those 19,000 children dying every day.
And then, as they got to the age at which many people start to think of retirement, they returned to them, and they've decided to cut back on their spending, to live modestly, and to give both money and time to helping to fight global poverty.
And after spending all my life wanting to do art, I left art school, and then I left art completely.
There were times when my projects failed to get off the ground, or, even worse, after spending tons of time on them the end image was kind of embarrassing.
It solves the same problem, but instead of spending several million pounds, you spend several hundred pounds.
And so I really think that we're going to be spending more time with robots like Baxter and working with robots like Baxter in our daily lives.
Instead of spending more time at sea, trying to catch the few fish left, they stopped fishing completely.
That's why they are spending unprecedented time and resources educating their own children.
The middle class is spending more on schooling too, but in the global educational arms race that starts at nursery school and ends at Harvard, Stanford or MIT, the 99 percent is increasingly outgunned by the One Percent.
She walks 50 blocks to and from work every day just to avoid spending money on bus fare.
Here I've been spending so much energy telling people stress is bad for your health.
In fact, I've been spending a lot of time on Internet dating sites recently, obviously for research purposes, and I've noticed that about 60 percent of the profile pictures on Internet dating sites contain the GPS coordinates of where the photo was taken, which is kind of scary because you wouldn't give out your home address to lots of strangers, but we're happy to give away our GPS coordinates to plus or minus 15 meters.
Working families, which are defined as earning between 20,000 and 50,000 dollars a year in America are spending more now on transportation than on housing, slightly more, because of this phenomenon called "drive till you qualify," finding homes further and further and further from the city centers and from their jobs, so that they're locked in this, two, three hours, four hours a day of commuting.
But actually, they're spending most of it in their homes, and home investment is about as local an investment as you can get.
It has huge implications, even with this whole notion that we have on where, when and why we should actually be cutting back on public spending and different types of public services which, of course, as we know, are increasingly being outsourced because of this juxtaposition.
This doesn't mean that Big Pharma is not spending on innovation.
In all these sectors, from funding the Internet to doing the spending, but also the envisioning, the strategic vision, for these investments, it was actually coming within the state.
I went to Notre Dame University and graduated with degrees in accounting and German, including spending a year of study in Austria.
Gorillas and orangutans, for instance, afford about 30 billion neurons by spending eight and a half hours per day eating, and that seems to be about as much as they can do.
I mean, there's prison costs, there's police costs, there's court costs, all these things that you're spending money on to deal with these guys.
Instead of just coming out of the prison with 46 pounds in their pocket, half of them not knowing where they're spending their first night out of jail, actually, someone meets them in prison, learns about their issues, meets them at the gate, takes them through to somewhere to stay, connects them to benefits, connects them to employment, drug rehabilitation, mental health, whatever's needed.
Because normal contracting for things, when you're spending government money, you're spending our money, tax money, and the people who are in charge of that are very aware of it so the temptation is to control exactly how you spend it.
We seem to be spending more and more money.
Some of my most wonderful memories of childhood are of spending time with my grandmother, Mamar, in our four-family home in Brooklyn, New York.
So we're spending an enormous amount of money and leaving most of the energy down there.
Who are you spending time with?
And I felt guilty about spending time on that.
We're never going to see the stuff outside, but by going to the South Pole and spending three years looking at the detailed structure of the night sky, we can figure out that we're probably in a universe that looks kind of like that.
CA: You're spending, like, a billion dollars a year in education, I think, something like that.
There have been a number of studies looking at how parents feel when they are spending time with their kids, and the answer often is, not so great.
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