Dr. HAYES: Well, it's very complicated, why the - and I appreciate my colleague also chiming in, but some of it is they have been exposed to often - and had the leisure time try to pursue healthier pursuits.
Nintendo and Sony are fighting the old war while the guerrilla attacks from mobile and social game companies steal a few seconds more of the consumer leisure time with each passing day.
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Mr Gershuny (who was not at the conference) points out that in Britain, as in many other developed countries, there has been a steady increase since the 1960s in the amount of leisure time spent outside the house.
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What is the value of the loss of leisure time if some of the new spending results in the employment of previously idle resources?
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Beyond this, the world market for films will continue to grow with the increase in leisure time and income, and with cinema building and the spread of television ownership.
The recession squashed leisure travel at the same time as budget-conscious travellers began going online to research, plan and book trips.
But the ability for consumers to actually have the money and leisure time to actually be consumers plummets.
Even as sites like Google-owned YouTube have emerged as viable entertainment options, the move is a nod to a basic truth of leisure time: The estimated 4 billion television users worldwide is still a much bigger customer base than those using the internet.
Adult hardback books, meanwhile, are off 1.5% since 1997, a sign of the increasing amount of people's leisure time eaten up by the Web, DVDs and the proliferation of television channels.
Eternal happiness guides towards divinity but unfortunately missing out because we have been mechanized by the prevailing environmental factors , not finding leisure time at home and in the society which is corroding the efficiency and draining out the potential energy.
Seven months after it closed the ruling Labour group lost control of the city council for the first time in 28 years with the leisure centre seen as a key factor.
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According to the relocation services company Interdean International Relocation, work and leisure time rarely overlap for the Swiss.
Prosperity, wider education, the onslaught of international media, instant telecommunications, travel and more leisure time have opened up the eyes and minds of the discerning electorate not only in Singapore and Japan, but all over the world.
"While television is primarily about our leisure time, the Internet is already transforming work, school, and play, " Cole says.
"Even as travelers age, they will continue to embrace travel as an opportunity to revisit their hedonistic youth and to spend lavishly, enjoying their leisure time to the full, " global travel and tourism research manager Clement Wong said.
We look at our business and say, well, we could either abandon (the leisure-side) over time, as there will always be an efficient, lower cost producer, or we could get into it in a much more meaningful way.
To the extent the individuals consider recessions to be a period of increased leisure, the bulk of the leisure increase shows up as an increase of time in these two categories.
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"They can access the leisure centre, but if you don't have pocket money at the time there are some free things that the leisure centre put on but there is nothing else on Plas Madoc, " he said.
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My economy is full of frictions that I as a member of the free agent nation struggle to deal with in the time I can allocate to work and leisure.
During their working years, men now have more leisure time than in the past.
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Leisure Time Tours at the Capri Tiberio Palace, Capri, Italy .
Unpaid time doing housework has declined more among women than work has increased, meaning that they too have more leisure time than in the past.
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Despite an ever-increasing number of accomplished female athletes, and despite the legion of female sports fans with both discretionary income and leisure time, women have yet to be regularly recognized as valued consumers, as valued as the men targeted by unimaginative, sexist campaigns.
Then there's the active local population that pours their leisure time and dollars into mountain biking, skiing and nightlife.
This leisure time includes being on the internet (not for work), playing games, relaxing, reading, exercise, watching TV, socializing and a few other things.
The life of the sarariman, Japan's devoted company employee and symbol of its post-war economic miracle, leaves little time for leisure or the family.
The Department of Community, Culture and Leisure (DCCL) said the impasse is a proposed increase in driving time.
In her leisure time, she can download the same books and films.
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The company's last president, Katsuaki Watanabe, tried to keep out of the limelight during his stint, spending his leisure time singing in a men's choir.
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The exhibition, which also includes video and audio interviews, looks at the different jobs at the airbase, the living conditions and how people spent their leisure time.
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