This isn't exactly a remake of the 1950 film starring Clifton Webb as an efficiency expert who liked to test his theories on his own huge family: Mr. Martin plays a football coach who gets a new, time-consuming city job and Ms. Hunt is an author on a book tour, and both could use some time-management guidance.
Before you agree to any new time-consuming task, ask yourself if this must be done at all, and if so, does it really need to be done by you.
In Minnesota, carrying out a shutdown — and a relatively ordinary one, as these things go — has turned out to be a whole new, time-consuming government function, including convening the special hearings to weigh exceptions to the shutdown rules.
Learning new concepts and methods in a new field is time consuming.
It is well known that developing a new drug is a time consuming and expensive process that can take 12 15 years.
They proposed no grand new time-consuming, budget-breaking monuments, but a suite of modest new bridges, along with the renovation of some great historic ones, amid a variety of green spaces.
He argued that the ruling could add new, time-consuming elements to many cases, prompting lawyers to inquire, after trial, into a jury's reasoning, and leading to a rash of appeals.
Worst still, they said, in extending the protest period, the Florida Supreme Court and the Gore campaign became embroiled in new time-consuming arguments about whether the Florida justices had usurped power delegated to legislatures by the United States Constitution.
A few years from now — after the facilitator has gotten the community's input, the monitor's agenda is in place, the new, time-consuming stop-and-frisk form is available, and the Police Department is geared up to train its 27,500 front-line officers and detectives — the problem may already have fixed itself.
More administrative work New time-consuming duties have been added to the teaching work.
While talking about changes in VET teachers' daily duties the teachers interviewed highlighted four aspects: More administrative work New time-consuming duties have been added to the teaching work.
