Meanwhile, he devotes just a few paragraphs to inflation's most crucial impact on the present.
At the same time, Yahoo devoted just a couple of slides to important strategies, like its costly Hail Mary project to create an entirely new mobile search experience to leapfrog competitors like Google, Apple and Amazon.
The millennium bug, after all, is just a bug, and squashing bugs is something IT departments do every day.Jim Bottome, IT director of British-American Tobacco, likens the millennium fix to another sort of major IT job switching from a mainframe computer to "client-server" PC software and says he devotes just a few days a month to overseeing the job.
So why, with such a major scoop in his hands, does Smith devote just a few lines in a blog post to it?
If we devoted just a tenth of the effort to controlling the equally dangerous misuse of legal prescription drugs, we would most certainly succeed.
And, as Alan Rubenstein of the PPF points out, British pension funds would have to devote just an extra 2% of their assets to infrastructure to raise the £20 billion the government is seeking.
Ms. Shannon then asked her how much she spent per week on services like psychotherapy, and suggested devoting just one of those hours, and its cost, to an engineer and sound studio.
The latest Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances shows that Americans invest their taxable accounts and their tax-deferred accounts their 401 k)s and Individual Retirement Accounts almost identically, devoting just over two-thirds of each to stocks.
According to Christopher Grampp, a landscape architect and historian in Oakland, Calif., the rest of us Americans are willing to devote just two hours a week to our yards.
If you devote just 10 minutes a day to it, though, you'll see results in no time.
