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People need to deal with international colleagues and if you know an individual and you can remember his face during a telephone discussion, that's a useful side effect.

I think what we're all learning now is that stem cells, regardless of source, are simply far more flexible and consequently far more useful than we had ever dreamt,

Janus particles may be useful for directed drug delivery.

I'm still waiting on official Katrina evacuee demographics. I think that it's going to be pretty useful data, because it will serve as a source of how many people can potentially become homeless.

I think it would be useful for the community if there was some way somebody could buy it and preserve the building, ... On the other hand, the district is in the position where it needs to get a fair market return on the building.

It does create a lot confusion and leads to different sides telling different stories -- not useful for making good public policy for the labor market,

I was just e-mailing a few friends about events that were useful or fun and now my friends of 20 or more have become a mailing list of 7,500 people and a virtual community of at least 10,000 people.

I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.

John Edgar Park introduced me to the gentle art of recreational lock-picking. It's fun and potentially useful to know how to tickle tumblers in the right way to open door locks and padlocks.

Journalists' notes are incredibly useful for historical perspectives.

I think the availability of these new products, especially without a doctor's prescription and the costs associated with that, will be a very useful tool for the millions and millions of smokers in the United States who desperately want to give up the habit.

It is more useful to have an aluminum-based vehicle because it will pay over time. The last part for aluminum to conquer is the car body, but that is the most difficult.

It is a very useful tool for students to view job postings for part-time and full-time jobs.

Resources in space may one day be useful in space. But you're not going to revolutionize the economy on Earth.

Overall, we see the year ahead as one with great potential. The tourism infrastructure is growing, and the region is gearing up for events such as the Beijing 2008 Olympics. We hope that national tourism organizations, policy makers, tourism operators and regional merchants will find this information useful in better understanding travelers' concerns and thereby stimulate even more business for this most exciting part of the world.

Our plan is to reward experts in their fields along with regular users who've proven they can share useful and popular material. By elevating them to Featured Finder status and giving them the advertising revenue produced by their pages, it's a win-win for everyone.

Owner input would be very useful -- the sooner the better, and hopefully baseball understands that.

Our work suggests that interventions might decrease the mortality of caregivers. Interventions are likely to be useful in certain diseases, such as stroke and dementia, and the timing of such interventions might be matched to the riskiest times for caregivers, for example, just after the hospitalization of the spouse.

Our study indicates that cancer remains an important contributor to overall mortality in these men, particularly those with high Gleason score and high serum PSA. These data will be useful for men with localized prostate cancer choosing between aggressive treatments such as surgery or radiation, observation and androgen deprivation therapy.

It is not useful for me to comment on it.

It is now possible to abolish work and replace it, insofar as it serves useful purposes, with a multitude of new kinds of free activities. To abolish work requires going at it from two directions, quantitative and qualitative. On the one hand, on the quantitative side, we have to cut down massively on the amount of work being done. At present most work is useless or worse and we should simply get rid of it. On the other hand -- and I think this the crux of the matter and the revolutionary new departure -- we have to take what useful work remains and transform it into a pleasing variety of game-like and craft-like pastimes, indistinguishable from other pleasurable pastimes, except that they happen to yield useful end-products.

I think it's one of the big winners out there in terms of something that might be useful for people if they're willing to practice it.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

I take the view that anything you can do to relieve suffering or improve human health will usually be widely accepted by the public - that is to say, if cloning actually turned out to be solving some problems and was useful to people, I think it would be accepted.

I think it's great idea. Take something old, create something useful out of it.

I think it's a quite useful paper. The (island) response is fairly minimal.

True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense

To look for bin Laden now is as useful as detaining nuclear scientists after the creation of the atomic bomb.

We can stand up and tell people they ought to be keeping up-to-date with patches, but in the real world, that's not particularly useful advice. There are just so many of them.

The problem - the greatest inefficiency of the process - is that you also wind up with a substantial quantity of medium-weight products that are not useful and you are stuck with them. What we are now able to do with our new catalysts is something no one else has done before. We take all these undesirable medium-weight substances and convert them to the useful higher- and lower-weight products.

We are in talks with Bangladesh who have expressed an interest, but we are still awaiting a programming schedule. It would be a useful warm-up for us going to Canada and we would welcome that.

(The) application far exceeds what is required by the ordinance and some of the information serves no useful purpose,

where we get an accurate and useful result for everybody.

Most books set in England between 1800 and 1840 have a 'Regency' feel. The reason that era is so useful for romance authors stems from the wide-ranging social changes that were occurring over that time, and the parallels, or echoes, those create with our time and the lives of our readers.

You can drag something onto a page, preview it to see what it looks like, tweak it and put it into production very quickly. You can do very useful things with not a lot of lines of code.

We in the over-30 range tend to turn to e-mail as a first choice. Teens do use e-mail, but they use it strategically. There are certain things they think e-mail is useful for and certain things that they don't.

We joined that coalition since the country was under attack, now we are more useful as the opposition,

You know, it's really useful on tour to have episodic things going on, especially things that make you laugh. Cartoon's definitely fit the bill.

Metal truss bridges were being replaced left and right. They had, according to many engineers, served their useful life." ()

We are basically hoping he survives and that he has some kind of ability to get some rehab so he can have some useful function again. But we are talking about the basics, we are talking very basic things. The complexity of this man, and what he did for a living, this is not to even be considered now. This is absolutely unrealistic at this time.

We have to raise the attention with this tower issue with the FAA. I'd like to bring a new tower to the valley because it's the right thing to do. The life cycle of this is beyond its useful life. No one is suggesting that this will happen overnight.

Without a Dr. King-like figure, we lack the capacity to create that personal connection, not just within our own community but with folks on the outside. Someone with that kind of visibility is really useful in terms of educating people.

We hope that the Dalai Lama will come to the right judgment of the situation, reverse his position (on independence) and really do something useful and beneficial for the country and for his ethnic group in his lifetime,

When talking about equipment, it's important to look at what kind of equipment the fund will be buying, ... It may be the kind of equipment with a long life that doesn't become obsolete over time. An airplane, for example, lasts over the long term and has a good resale value, but computer equipment may have a shorter useful term.

We believe the proposal could be a useful attempt to break the stalemate. We hope all parties involved will give play to their wisdom so that talks can resume.

That was a very useful thing, and is something that was very much appreciated.

What we can measure is how hard we are trying. Measures of effort may be a more useful indicator than estimated rates of species loss. For example, we can measure the number of new protected areas being established and ask if they have sufficient budgets.

The Onscreen Financial Statement converts data into useful and actionable business information. Managers can identify and assess vulnerable areas for one or all of their stores. It helps them to keep pace with daily business activities and mitigates negatives month-end impacts.

There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

We're always willing to talk about how to make reports like this as useful as possible.

Today's college students realize the value in gaining real-world experience while they're still in school. The contacts they've made early in their careers will be useful in networking their way into jobs.

You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself one and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.

This staff draft is a very useful starting point in the process,

Tracker takes the pain out of spreadsheet collaboration. We are not out to replace Excel, which is a popular and very useful application. The idea is to make it more useful by turning it in to an application for tracking data.

We presently don't have fully validated imaging or biomarker measures that can help us monitor the development or progression of Alzheimer's in living people. This study represents one step in the progress being made toward identifying clinically useful biological measures for Alzheimer's disease.

We are concerned that much of the emphasis in this legislation focuses on horses already out of the barn, ... We believe that legislation will be most useful when, along with an appropriately designed notification standard, it also creates incentives for business to adopt practices that protect data and obviate the need for notification.

We are pleased that Thomas Equipment Incorporated has chosen to list at the American Stock Exchange. We hope the company will find our services useful as it strives to meet its objectives in the marketplace.

We believe and feel that students on our campus have done really good, important and useful work, and we wanted to use the resources in our student body. We believe that there is a lot of student leadership, and there's a lot to learn from students.

The Democrats should concentrate instead on how to spend money - lots of it - in smart, socially useful ways that help struggling wage earners.

The defeat will wake us up and should act as a useful lesson that we can't relax.

We are making the prescribing information much more targeted and useful for physicians. The prescribing information over the years, as we learned more and more about medicines, has become very congested and complex. We've heard from physicians it's hard for them to find the information they need.

Where would we be without inhibitions? Theyre quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.

We want to accelerate the adoption of new technologies in useful situations so that our customers can get these new capabilities deployed as soon as possible.

The credit markets have been very useful guides to industry prospects. Whatever reassuring signals they are sending shouldn't be ignored.

With 10MB of flash, users will have the ability to store and update locally referenced information, and that will make the cell phone useful right out of the box.

We have been in contact with law enforcement officials to provide any information they may find useful in their investigation.

This suggests the technology may be useful in early diagnosis and in tracking people over time.

There has been useful work done. There has been a degree of progress but ... it's not all there yet.

There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a sublime madness, which in all its whimsy and pointlessness may depict the story of life - and indeed could be a useful model to keep in mind, seeing as so much of life's ambition comes unstuck or leads to nothing much at all.

We're trying to find uses for this land that's not useful for anything else.

We think this presented some very useful information and we're anxious to consider discussions on several topics that were raised in this report and not just increasing the minimum wage.

We think this will be a very useful tool, but you will have to give up some of your privacy. For many of us, that trade off will make a lot of sense.

We have no precedent to follow on the involvement of the independent counsel in our proceedings. However, it seems both useful and instructive that we should hear from him since he is the person most familiar with the complicated matters the House has directed us to review.

When he first started - Jim Henson, who created Bid Bird and Oscar - he said Big Bird was just a big, goofy guy. And it was - a script came along and I said, 'I think Big Bird would be much more useful to the show if he were a child learning all the things we were teaching in the show.' And so he didn't know the alphabet, even, for instance.

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The best armor of old age is a well-spent life preceding it.

Whether it's veterans' disability claims, infrastructure projects, dam safety, or helping our farmers, what I am focused on is being useful for folks in the Hudson Valley.

Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love.

What makes Hubble worthwhile, ... is putting in new science instruments that have state-of-the-art detectors to really make the leaps forward...what we call the 'science discovery factor.' Those are the things that are really going to make Hubble a useful and desirable space research vehicle beyond the 2008 time frame.

We find it ironic that we were kind of pressured to release these slots, and now they're apparently not useful to them (American) anymore. The marketplace changes so rapidly, almost on a daily basis, so I'm not entirely surprised. No one should be.

We find it very interesting and useful to talk to somebody with firsthand experience. Obviously, it helps our thinking.

We can deliver much more public value when we think across all platforms and consider how audiences can find our best content, content that's more relevant, more useful and more valuable to them.

Very few societies on Earth developed science as we know it today. On the other hand, the number is not zero - the Greeks, the Chinese, and the Maya did, among others. Once invented, science proved so useful that it spread like mold on a petri dish.

We're issuing this in the wake of some comments by President Chen in Taiwan that we don't want to be inflammatory or send the wrong signal, so we thought it useful to reiterate US policy on the subject.

We believe that part of innovation has to be the integration of useful technology into new and improved products.

And they bought an Owl, and a useful Cart,/ And a pound of Rice, and a Cranberry Tart.

And this information was very useful for them.

Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.

CRM is not going away. It has gone through a cycle of over-inflated expectations, to the sense that the software is not useful at all to a more mature stage, with companies always trying to improve their customer interactions.

Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him from having 1. the sense of romantic solitude (if he is worth anything he will develop a proper and useful solitude) which identification with the hero gives. 2. cant ideas of right and wrong, absurd systems of honor and morality which never will he be able completely to get rid of, 3. the attainment of ''ideals',' of a priori desires, of a priori emotions. He should amuse himself with fact only: he will then not learn that if the weak younger son do or do not the magical honorable thing he will win the princess with hair like flax.

Disclosures are only as useful as they are available.

DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

Don't get too caught up in the typical ideas of what makes a good drummer. Those things are sort of unattainable, and they're not always creatively your most useful things to know.

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Cough is very common in children. However, cough and cold medicines are not useful in children and can actually be harmful. In most cases, a cough that is unrelated to chronic lung conditions, environmental influences, or other specific factors, will resolve on its own.

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop.

What one knows it is sometimes useful to forget

Even in a healthy economy, you have layoffs, ... The Challenger number is more useful as a story telling device than an indicator.

Even in a healthy economy, you have layoffs. The Challenger number is more useful as a story telling device than an indicator.

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