The problems, they say, ranged from life-threatening dangers to what seemed idle efforts at humiliation.
This type of careful personnel planning reduces the chance that expensive capital equipment will stand idle and that effort, time, and materials will be wasted during start-up and regular operations.
Understanding how light moves is fundamental to many fields, so it isn't just idle curiosity driving the efforts of Jinyang Liang and his colleagues — not that there'd be anything wrong with that either.
The effort borrows the idle time of computers around the world after hours, on lunch breaks, between mouse clicks to analyze small chunks of radio telescope data.
The Pupyong plant, where the workers marched, had been idled on Thursday in an effort to reduce inventory, and management hopes to resume operations there on March 6.
For some time now, Sirius XM has been making serious efforts to activate idle OEM-installed radios in used cars.
And it will take effort to cast off the idle inertia and fear of awkwardness that keeps us from communicating.
Last month, TVA announced plans to ramp up energy efficiency and demand response efforts by 1,900 megawatts and idle 1,100 megawatts of coal capacity by 2015.
Far more effort could be made to sell idle state assets such as land.
However, they do so via a speed-up behavior (i.e., by reducing their service durations) instead of an effort to lower their average bed idle time.
Efforts are now under way to convert idle regasification terminals into liquefaction facilities, in order to export LNG.
