The Three-Day Week of January to March 1974, introduced to limit electricity consumption, and thus conserve coal supplies which were severely reduced due to industrial action, meant that non-essential commercial users were only allowed to consume electricity for three days each week.

The Three-Day Week was one of several measures introduced in the United Kingdom by the Conservative Government 1970 – 1974 to conserve electricity, the production of which was severely limited due to industrial action by coal miners.

To reduce electricity consumption, and thus conserve coal stocks, a series of measures were announced on 13 December 1973 by Heath, including the " Three-Day Work Order ", more commonly known as the Three-Day Week, which was to come into force at midnight on 31 December.

Mr. Clark's studies taught him that the only way to conserve the vitamins in the whole grain was prompt use of the flour.

However, perhaps the first organised attempt to conserve cultural patrimony was the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in the UK, influenced by the writings of John Ruskin the society was founded by William Morris and Philip Webb in 1877.

The term conservative was meant to signify that Jews should attempt to conserve Jewish tradition, rather than reform or abandon it, and does not imply the movement's adherents are politically conservative.

Climate also affects the supply of fuel for cooking ; a common Chinese food preparation method was cutting food into small pieces to cook foods quickly and conserve scarce firewood and charcoal.

As many of these detrimental effects have done irreversible damage to hellbender populations, it is important to conserve the remaining intact populations through protecting habitats and — perhaps in places where the species was once endemic and has been extirpated — by augmenting numbers through reintroduction.

He was able to conserve some of the precious ROM space by interleaving some of the assembly language code.

The neutrino was postulated first by Wolfgang Pauli in 1930 to explain how beta decay could conserve energy, momentum, and angular momentum ( spin ).

This was done in order to conserve opcode space, and the registers are therefore randomly accessible only for either operand in a register-to-register arithmetic instruction ; ST0 must always be one of the two operands, either the source or the destination, regardless of whether the other operand is ST ( x ) or a memory operand.

It is thought that because in Roman times iron was rare, the nails were removed from the dead body to conserve costs.

Their intent was " to restore and conserve the natural surroundings of the Falls of Niagara, rather than to attempt to add anything thereto ", and the report anticipated fundamental questions.

In January 2006, it was announced that Heath had left £ 5 million in his will, most of it to a charitable foundation to conserve his 18th century house, Arundells, opposite Salisbury Cathedral as a museum to his career.

Haig's purpose was to maintain continual pressure on the enemy, while Joffre and Foch preferred to conserve their strength in preparation for a single, heavy blow.

Thereafter, the periapsis was allowed to rise ( to 2290 km at maximum ) and then fall, to conserve fuel.

The Refuge was formed in 1992 to conserve habitat for two endangered songbirds: the Golden-cheeked Warbler and the Black-capped Vireo and to preserve Texas Hill Country habitat for numerous other wildlife species.

Much of it was dug up and dismantled by the Irish government from the 1950s — 1970s after being deemed uneconomic, however there remains local advocacy groups who wish to conserve and restore parts of it.

In order to conserve rail transport during World War II, the 1943 Spring Training was limited to an area east of the Mississippi River and north of the Ohio River.

A painstaking process was used to conserve as many original component parts and systems as possible and restore the rest using original documentation from the Fuller prototyping process.

Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1980 to conserve and manage habitat critical to migratory and resident wildlife for benefit of present and future generations.

In order to conserve rail transport during World War II, the 1943 Spring Training was limited to an area east of the Mississippi River and north of the Ohio River.

Historically, optimal encoding was not only worthwhile from an efficiency standpoint but was also common practise to conserve valuable memory, external storage and processor resources.

) This was primarily because London had less access to fresh water ( and thus a greater need to conserve water ).

His staff explained that this was done to conserve fuel by not having to fly the usual Boeing 707 Air Force aircraft.

The elastic recoil helps conserve the energy from the pumping heart and smooth out the pulsatile nature created by the heart.

The few surviving bacteria conserve their energy and stored nutrients during the passage through the stomach by shutting down much protein production.

Because such waves conserve the amount of energy they transmit through any spherical boundary surface drawn around their source, and because such surfaces have an area that is defined by the square of the distance from the source, the power of EM radiation always varies according to an inverse-square law.

During the first decade of operation of the Internet ( by the late 1980s ), it became apparent that methods had to be developed to conserve address space.

Water cisterns two-thirds of the way up the cliff drain the nearby wadis by an elaborate system of channels, which explains how the rebels managed to conserve enough water for such a long time.

Their temperature control mechanism relies on action by the bird, which uses its wings to cover the naked skin of the upper legs and flanks to conserve heat, or leaves these areas bare to release heat.

If amino acids are present in the environment, microorganisms can conserve energy by taking up the amino acids from their surroundings and downregulating their biosynthetic pathways.

They can be used effectively to control erosion and recycle and conserve water and nutrients by building them along contour lines on slopes.

This culminated in the ' Green ban ' movement of the 1970s led by the Union movement to conserve the heritage of Sydney.

To conserve energy the cooling air is not refrigerated but is cooled by being passed through a labyrinth of pipes buried under the house at a depth where the temperature remains suitable all year round.

They may also be controlled by room occupancy detectors to conserve energy,

It is also sometimes used by diving enthusiasts, particularly those using rebreathers, which conserve the breathing gas at depth much better than open circuit scuba.

Such address overloading enables virtual web hosting, commonly used by large web hosting services to conserve IP address space.

The cathedral houses one of the nation's premiere textile conservation laboratories to conserve the cathedral's textiles, including the Barberini tapestries to cartoons by Raphael.

When driving on a highway, convoys are also useful to conserve fuel by drafting.

The national park authorities have two roles: to conserve and enhance the park, and to promote its use by visitors.

To conserve water, air-breathing chelicerates excrete waste as solids that are removed from their blood by Malpighian tubules, structures which also evolved independently in insects.

Arcology is envisioned by Soleri as a hyperdense city, designed to maximize human interaction ; it should maximize access to shared, cost-effective infrastructural services, conserve water and reduce sewage ; minimize the use of energy, raw materials and land ; reduce waste and environmental pollution ; and allow interaction with the surrounding natural environment.

This difference is possibly due to the need for moths to conserve heat during the cooler nights, or to confound echolation by bats, whereas butterflies are able to absorb solar radiation,