And those who have jobs spend little time at them, thanks chiefly to the 35-hour week.
Yet Kinsley pulls it off, thanks chiefly to a personality that you want to spend more, not less, time with.
The Buffalo Sabres edged the Toronto Maple Leafs 2-1, thanks chiefly to goaltender Ryan Miller, who stopped 34 shots.
In satellite radio, for example, Sirius has crept up on XM Satellite Radio thanks chiefly to its content, in the controversial form of Howard Stern.
The genre's most famous mobile games are missing, but thanks chiefly to Electronic Arts, great ones still await, like Need for Speed Shift 3D, Yahtzee, Tetris and Risk.
The jail's three cardinal rules - "No drugs; no violence; no sex" - are not unique to Grendon, but their enforcement certainly is, thanks chiefly to the inmates.
Yet thanks chiefly to the participants themselves, it also proved the search for romance to be one of life's great levellers.
Demand for gas has taken off in recent years, thanks chiefly to its greenness it burns far cleaner than oil or coal, making it ideal for new power plants from California to China.
Now farmers must rely on expensive credit from suppliers.Yet, once the credit problem is sorted out, reckons Mr Hafers, Brazil's farm output could "easily double" in five years, thanks chiefly to the scope for expansion in the cerrados.
But Westinghouse was far less profitable than GE, thanks chiefly to lack of a strategy and its weak sales and marketing.The most visible blunder occurred in Westinghouse's financial-services arm.
Atmospheric concentrations of GHGs have risen from around 280ppm two centuries ago to around 370ppm today, thanks chiefly to mankind's use of fossil fuels and, to a lesser degree, to deforestation and other land-use changes.
