In the near future, what is arguably the most wasteful feature of L.A.'s streets — the overwhelming swath of parking spaces — could soon become one of its biggest open resources.
Today the U.S. Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit issued a landmark ruling that curtails one of the most wasteful and draconian features of our immigration lock-up system: the government's practice of putting immigration detainees behind bars for months or even years, without ever holding a bond hearing to determine if they should be locked up in the first place.
Fountains are another wasteful outdoor water feature, so in the past year Cisco converted 12 of its fountains into planter beds with drip irrigation and drought-tolerant plants.
Although I like a few of its features -- cuts to the wasteful, ineffective Medicare Advantage Program, I would not have voted for it myself were I a member of Congress.
Japan hopes to curb wasteful use of toilet paper with a poetry campaign featuring three "toilet poems," which will be posted in Japanese public restrooms beginning in February.
Patients seem to accept the levy because they are aware of increased financial pressure within the health services and acknowledge that wasteful use of drugs contributes to this problem, a feature that has also been observed in international populations [ 20, 35].
Within the context of family studies it is extremely wasteful to discard such quantitative information about the presence and extent of bipolar features and BADDS provides a simple approach to making simple but efficient use of such data.
Associated gas-saving features, including an automatic stop-start function for the engine that minimizes wasteful idling when the vehicle is stopped, are gaining popularity in hybrids and nonhybrids alike.
For one thing, the average may reflect many features of a market that is not working well, capturing much that is wasteful, ineffective, or inappropriate in a system providing care.
If the ideal set of features was known, these could be highlighted and those more likely to be wasteful of time and resources could be dropped.
