Many of the old-fashioned, frugal housekeeping techniques she remembers so well from her childhood are familiar to me, too.
But other companies, such as General Electric and Tata's chemicals arm, have applied frugal engineering techniques to produce cheap products with great success.
Bossa nova rhythm and harmony are implicit in much of Mr. Horta's playing, but not bossa nova's frugal guitar technique: he often strummed all six strings, leaving one or two unfretted, wresting complex harmonies and letting the low strings ring out.
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The technique of "frugal innovation" – doing more with less – first developed in India and then taken up by Western industries, has much to teach us.
Shortening the extraction time and lowering the solvent requirement along with maintaining the quality of the product were the frugal aspects of this technique.
These techniques may be highly effective (fast and frugal decision making) (Goldstein and Gigerenzer, 2002), or may introduce bias.
If the credit crunch has put paid to the age of the summer blockbuster and the studio-backed "indie" movie, perhaps Cassavetes's improvised, on-the-hoof techniques will be the template for a new frugal film-making era.
Space and resources, not least water, are at a premium - hence the development of techniques such as aquaponics, a variant of the water-frugal plant-growing technique of hydroponics.
Siemens and GE (Ishrak's former employer) call it "frugal innovation," and it's things like basic amenities like light and clean water that are created through cutting-edge techniques but made available for microscopic prices — the only prices impoverished communities in rural Somalia or India can afford.
One of Bin Laden's wives, who survived the attack on the compound and was interviewed by the commission, revealed another technique: he wore a wide-brimmed cowboy hat when outside. 4 Osama was a man of frugal tastes.
