Economizing

But we'll learn from the experience, and the cost of unmanned trips will go down, and the safety and success rate go up, as we get beyond the learning phase -- especially if we take the goal seriously enough to incorporate such ingenious long-term economizing ideas as those of Robert Zubrin. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I flatter myself that I am becoming quite efficient in economizing "– Susan had taken to using certain German terms with killing effect –" but one can exercise a little gumption on the quiet now and then. ❋ Lucy Maud (1921)

That kind of economizing would be unworthy of a revolutionary working class which thinks about today, but has the even more sacred duty of thinking about tomorrow, which thinks about the present generation, but thinks more about future generations. ❋ Unknown (1973)

It has not been this kind of economizing that has inspired the suggestions of the theses, but a genuine concern for savings, for production, for productivity, for the discipline of work. ❋ Unknown (1973)

That kind of economizing is a vice nourished in the hearts of the workers by the bourgeois and by capitalists. ❋ Unknown (1973)

And the Green/Robinson-Briggs administration argued to the state that this was an "economizing" move?) ❋ Dan (2008)

True, economizing was evident throughout Fashion Week: the models halved their catwalk fees, and a number of designers scaled back their presentations — Marc Jacobs, for instance, cut his guest list from 2,000 to 500, and decided to forgo his once de rigueur after-party. ❋ Unknown (2009)

With nearly everything electronic now tied to an ever faster Internet, the chips comprising this burgeoning paraphernalia must be capable of performing at higher data rates, while economizing on the electricity that makes them all run. ❋ Rick Whittington (2011)

True, by then everyone knew that some economizing lay ahead, even perhaps, worst-case scenario, something on the order of the 1991 recession. ❋ Unknown (2009)

True, it was his first meal in two days, and we were economizing on rent by sleeping in the parks. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A 50-grand Range Rover might seem like the answer to an economizing fashionista's prayer. ❋ Dan Neil (2011)

Knowing Julie Walsh and the passionate, thorough exhibits she presents I doubt this will be an economizing move. ❋ Paul Klein (2011)

Cathy Kaufman, a food historian who wrote the entry on napkins in "The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink," said she thought gradual acceptance of the fork a process not complete until the 20th century, general economizing on things like fabric and the fact that people no longer dressed elaborately for dinner, all contributed to the Great Shrink. ❋ William L. Hamilton (2011)

It was a night when he had taken her at the expense of a month's rigid economizing on food. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For example, tertiary recovery of oil or the economizing of shale gas recently. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On its recent quarterly results call, Darden Restaurants said that even though the company hasn't fully passed through food-price increases, customers have been economizing by cutting back on appetizers, drinks and desserts. ❋ Justin Lahart (2011)