Time is, as we all know, money. Such valuation of time leads people to
extreme efforts to [?] their use of time. Some people obsess over
knowing the exact time. They buy clocks and watches that automatically
[?] themselves over the Internet or by radio waves. These measurements
allow them [?] accuracy in dealing with time. Regardless of how
one tracks time, most people share a common goal: They want to use time
effectively. Since about 1982, this efficiency has increased [?] each year,
thanks to computers and their ability to multitask. In multitasking, a computer executes
several different tasks in [?]. Rather than being set [?], each task is given a
priority in the computer’s operating system, and time is spent in [?] to the
priority of the task. The computer executes different [?] of tasks at different
clock cycles, thereby increasing the [?] of output from a process.