Home economics and business management have Lillian Gilbreth in common, and a lot more besides.
"Home economics, woodwork and metal work was commonplace in schools two decades ago, " Mr Davies said.
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The one and only time I ever made my own clothing was in grade 8 home economics.
According to the testimony, Brothers applied to be a "64, 000 Question" contestant as an expert in home economics and psychology.
It turns out the top earning gaming managers, post-secondary home economics teachers and art directors surprisingly make well over six figures.
From the outset subjects such as home economics, woodworking, physical education, and typing have had a place in school curricula alongside reading, writing and mathematics.
Myfanwy Stubbs, who used to be a full time home economics teacher, said she believed it would take time to change children's relationship to food.
California is the best-paying state for post-secondary home economics teachers.
It rents fields nearby for football and basketball, and, like other schools in the chain, sends pupils away to one of two specially built facilities for a week each term for home economics, woodwork and art, rather than providing costly, little-used facilities in the school.
Examples of hearts-dominant founders profiled in the book include Guy Laliberte, who parlayed his vision for a revamped circus into the billion dollar Cirque du Soleil giant and Doris Christopher, the home-economics teacher who believed every home chef should have professional grade tools.
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You remember that old home-economics class they used to teach in high school.
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The op-ed editors would never accept an article arguing, say, for the return of high school home-economics courses so that girls would learn to cook.
In short, Mr Prodi, often portrayed as a crumpled-looking professor more at home teaching economics in his native Bologna than playing politics in Rome, has been a good deal tougher and cannier than he looked.
While Mr Bowman, who is in charge of manufacturing, is pleased and proud, he is quick to stress the return home is about economics, not patriotism.
She had a posh education in the United States, studied economics back home and worked for a time as a teacher.
In any other business it would be a home run, but the twisted economics of dial-up access have left the New York City telecommunications giant disappointed.
Problem was, she didn't want to give up the visionary stuff either, and so was flying to Davos to opine on global economics when, back home, fundamental decisions needed to be made about, say, the PC business.
Having Goldman as the lead and getting 50% of the economics would be such a home run for me.
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Throughout his life, from a poor home in Paris through night-school classes in economics to his pre-Brussels spell as France's minister of finance, he has been a pragmatist who has got things done.
According to data analyzed by Capital Economics, the 12 biggest publicly traded home builders controlled 632, 864 land lots at the end of the first quarter of 2012, compared with 1.8 million six years ago.
While Mr Levitt wanders freely among sumo wrestlers, game-show contestants and other inhabitants of the outer fringes of economics, Mr Harford takes care of the home turf scarcity, competition, taxes and trade.
It was those qualities that drew friends of his to suggest he should stand for office as mayor in his home town of Lloido soon after he had finished studying economics and business at a nearby public university.
Women bought most of the products consumed in the home, but were ignorant of how they were made or the economics of their marketing.
Otherwise, in their view, economics as a science might as well pack up and go home.
With a relatively low unemployment rate (6%) and rising home values, the area has turned into a poster-child for Keynesian economics and liberal sensibility.
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"This launches the recovery of not only the city and its economics, but paves the way for people to begin to come home because it provides the funding that we need for things like schools and hospitals and police, " he said.
According to Ed Stansfield of Capital Economics, an economic consultancy, the change will benefit about 300, 000 home-buyers, mainly in the northern parts of the country.
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But home-based phone reps--there are about 100, 000--disrupt the economics of offshoring.
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