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I used to be a writer with superstitions worthy of a professional baseball player: I needed a certain desk chair and a certain armchair and a certain desk arrangement, and I could only get really useful work done between 8 P.M. and 3 A.M. Then I started to move, and I couldn't bring my chairs with me.

It would have been useful to have had a nomination of a successor prior to Jackson Hole because, in a way, Jackson Hole is a farewell to Chairman Greenspan.

You can teach someone to use Excel, but if they don't know a thing about math in the first place, then it's not a very useful tool,

While the Polaris vehicle could be useful in search and rescue missions, we are mindful of the fact that some might misinterpret acceptance of the vehicle as a tacit endorsement of smokeless tobacco products. That was never our intent. However, we concluded that it was best to remove all questions by withdrawing the request.

While these estimates could still potentially change, we thought it could be useful to forecast a base case for the impacted casinos, giving investors an idea of the

The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002.

We see these developments as tremendously useful in defeating the remaining lights class actions scattered around the country.

The stance the committee has taken probably provides a useful reminder that the easier interest-rate cycle has bottomed.

The software industry, in some cases, has reached a tipping point where new features provide marginal value to small business users. While it is important to continue providing useful new features, it is equally important to improve ease-of-use, so users can get more value out of the products than they have been able to in the past. Small businesses simply don't have the time or resources to worry about their technology - it's incumbent on vendors to build products that help the bottom line, not hurt it.

The tech companies in the East Bay perhaps had products that were more useful to general types of businesses than really cutting-edge Internet products. Companies may want to buy products they can use in their business operations than a technology that lets you smell things over the Internet.

These lists are useful because they highlight problems within the park system for the public.

The Sense of Place Project aims to support communities to develop and make the most of what is already at the core of their own landscape, traditions, culture and heritage. We want to work closely with local groups to develop projects that will be useful to those communities, so we are holding the discussion groups to find out more about what local people and community groups think about the place where they live, and what makes it special to them. In other words, what gives them a 'sense of place'.

We will look back on speech recognition software that became truly useful in the year 2000 as the real Y2K revolution.

I've never met an evangelist who gave up so easily and I hope she wasn't sent off for retraining when she reported back to HQ, sans convert but with some useful gardening tips.

The word question is derived from the Latin quarrier (to seek) which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions can be very useful guides. Most useful are open-ended questions; they allow for fresh unanticipated answers to reveal themselves.

It would be useful to lay down an internationally agreed set of goals, benchmarks.

It would be useful to the voters if Marc wanted to talk about the issues, but he's now proven he's incapable of civil debate. He's more interested in calling names. Holtzman is desperate for attention.

It was useful and helpful to know that they've moved this far ahead in their specific proposal.

It was very difficult to get comparable runs in during the morning session as there were plenty of red flags and a short spell of rain. We continued with our compound tests, however, as well as putting some very useful mileage on some revised clutch parts to prove their reliability.

We're placing them into good homes where they'll be loved and taken care of and used as a useful animal or just pets. The alternative is we either leave them on the range and they damage the public lands because they're overpopulated, or we put them into large-scale holding operations where they don't get used; they don't get touched; they just sit there.

Very little useful science got done in the space station. NASA never did the experiments needed to develop the technologies required for a genuine interplanetary expedition: centrifugal gravity to avoid bodily harm and a truly closed biosphere.

Useful lessons can be learned from our more successful local authorities - as you move into government, it is even more imperative to communicate speedily and persuasively with your members and your voters.

Useful though they are, the vast majority of dictionaries and encyclopedias are poker-faced pieces of work that stick to the facts and present them as soberly - and unstylishly - as possible.

We think it's very useful that people can go to the Internet and get a lot of information, but we think it's appropriate to draw the line where personal information is given at a Web site.

While it's true that some sites are significantly more useful than others, the industry has improved to a point where there are no bad manufacturer sites. This study again confirms that the more useful a site is, the more traffic it is likely to drive to dealerships. The automotive industry is providing better online shopping experiences to more shoppers than ever before, making manufacturer sites an increasingly important stop when researching a new vehicle to purchase.

There is a lot of work still to do, but after having already seen four applications build with the framework, it is clear that it already includes some very cool and useful modules.

Ultimately worms have the same issues as we do for getting their sperm and egg together, and hopefully that will be useful for improving our understanding of human infertility, giving us different insights into reproductive strategies that nature uses to get the sperm and egg together.

We wanted it to be useful to everyday New Englanders, ... We have the town common, weve got the Kennedy family, we have Revolutionary War heroes, we have great mills, we have New England inventors ... But then we have the very new - we have biotechnology and the computer industry.

We wanted something so people who are interested in the program can stay in touch. I think it's going to be especially useful for alumni who are out of the area now.

This new People Access Security Service, or PASS system card, will be particularly useful for those citizens in border communities who regularly cross northern and southern borders every day as an integral part of their daily lives. We're talking about essentially like the kind of driver's license or other simple card identification that almost all of us carry in our wallets day in and day out.

We had so many people offering to volunteer that we put up a database online. We identified people we thought would be useful and helped place them.

We are wasting our water mostly by putting waste into it. One cubic meter of wastewater can pollute ten cubic meters of water. Discharging wastewater into oceans turns freshwater into the less useful salty stuff, and desalination is expensive.

. . . provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

Public records are critical for the public's oversight. It's all potentially relevant and useful information to anyone at a certain point of their life.

People do pay more attention, and that's useful to me,

I've never been interested in philosophy, but some of Jung's ideas seem useful in helping people understand pictures and so forth.

With the combination of first-class technology and premium design, Samsung has led the industry by offering various features of mobile phones. With great improvements in mobile storage, Samsung will continue to introduce a variety of useful functions for mobile.

With the computer world changing so rapidly, we think computers are out of date in the business world when they are still extremely useful to kids.

Denver is the fourth fastest growing restaurant market in the U.S., and the Rocky Mountain region's online population is growing dramatically every year. Denver is a community who want immediately useful information. Permission-based email is the ideal way for dining hospitality providers to reach them.

Oil exporters have a lot of useful ways to spend the money,

Compare that to what SAP and Microsoft are doing jointly to provide some useful functionality and you'll see that Microsoft is retooling entire interface around Office and that is much more extensive.

Dean graduated from California two years ago and went into the Army, ... He's overseas now, and some of my other friends also have joined the military. My mother also got me interested by showing me pictures on the Internet of our soldiers and the conditions in which they are living in the Middle East. Their homes, in many cases, are in ditches and in the sand. I also learned that they really are in need of some of the basic day-to-day items most of us might take for granted, so I thought that would be the most useful thing to pursue.

At least you will know how useful the book has been.

as long as I feel it is useful to be here.

Zero-length arrays are useful only in cases where you have a large structure, which contains a field of dynamic length, and you need to share that structure across program or even computer boundaries.

A maintenance facility in India will be very useful for local carriers. If you have a local center, the cost of sending aircraft outside for major checks, which is considerable, can be saved.

A major problem with spectrographs is that they collect only a small percentage of photons from the target light source, which means that they are only useful to search for distant planets when mounted on relatively large telescopes.

They still have to have vision, the ability to undertake an ambitious project, to leverage resources, to manage financing. We thought it would be very useful for the students to look at a situation that was very different from the normal one.

They've been absolutely excellent and very productive as I hoped and expected ... we discussed a whole range of issues, ... I think we've been through all the issues that you would expect, plus some more. And I've found it a very, very useful meeting, indeed.

Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.

Salesforce.com and other CRM solutions would be really useful if they actually had customer data stored. But they only have prospects. There's no way to make a prospect into a customer unless you tie together ERP and CRM.

Our approach is simple: offer practical deposit and credit solutions along with sound financial advice as a way to help a business run more effectively. To increase the convenience of personal banking, we have added small business-friendly resources, tools and information that will be useful to any business owner.

Our customers want to focus on their core business whether it's manufacturing automobiles or building ships. We're responsible for the whole lifecycle of the chemical, from the time it's distributed to the end of its useful life when it's ready for recycling or some other type of treatment.

People Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

Fear can sometimes be a useful emotion. For instance, let's say you're an astronaut on the moon and you fear that your partner has been turned into Dracula. The next time he goes out for the moon pieces, wham!, you just slam the door behind him and blast off. He might call you on the radio and say he's not Dracula, but you just say, "Think again, bat man.

Federal agencies generate a wealth of useful consumer information. But consumers have to guess where the information is. With consumer.gov, the information will be in one place.

Enterprise search software is so clearly bereft of soul. Enterprise search has not been useful to users. It's not simple, comprehensive or reliable.

first step towards the end to violence and terror. It needs to be followed by other steps to dismantle the capabilities. But we certainly believe that that could be a useful step to see in the coming days.

First of all, we're quite proud to bring the 2006 print edition of The National Directory of Children, Youth & Families Services to the marketplace. For nearly 30 years the Directory has been a foundational resource that thousands of professionals across the country have utilized. And now that this same information is available for the first time as a Web-based resource, with all of the advantages the Internet offers, we're quite confident that industry professionals will agree our online version of the Directory is even more useful and beneficial in their daily work.

There was a huge boom in creating mainframe systems in the '60s and '70s, and we always felt they would be replaced, ... Much to our horror in some cases, today we've got 30-year-old systems that we thought would have outlived their useful life.

The physical formulas teach you how the world really works, which is extremely useful in video games. For example, knowing about magnetism is helpful in figuring out how the tank shells would fly in a video game.

There is no reason to use the combination therapy for primary prevention, whereas it might be useful in patients who have already had a heart attack or stroke.

The whole book was rather crude & hasty but how far it really was less useful on that account I don't know.

This combination of useful technology and luxury features will appeal to a wide range of customers who value high levels of safety, quality, performance and comfort in a graceful and elegant vehicle,

This can be very useful and appropriate for people who are still dealing with the aftermath of the hurricane since there is no cost to the resident to get rid of their garbage at the sites.

They were lengthy and they were incomplete and they weren't useful because they were very difficult to decipher as to what information they were trying to provide.

This gives these young coaches a chance to ask questions from the legendary coaches. It's a very useful tool. They will get the opportunity to find out how these programs were built and how to juggle multiple sports or to turnaround a program.

This information can be useful to engineers trying to design new bridges." ()

This isn't proof that they were used, but a likely suggestion. They were present in abundance at the dawn of time and could have been useful in creating the first life form.

You never want a situation where someone has a veto power, ... But having parents at the front end, serving on an advisory committee ... can be extremely useful and actually insulate districts against attacks on books because parents have been involved.

This is a question of the critics being useful to the studios. When it's youth movies, studios really don't want their weaknesses highlighted and would rather the critics ignore them. That's going to continue.

In basketball, you want the players to be at the right level of arousal. If they are pretty highly aroused, it is useful for doing certain things like jumping, running fast, playing intense defense. But when you step up to the foul line, you want to pull all of that down and get calm.

I'm sure there are going to be a lot of people who will be sad to see the U. Brew go. It's not just a place to get coffee; it's been extremely useful for small concerts and films.

In his current assignment, Mike has led the team that has helped GM gain back market share in California. He's built strong relationships with dealers and employees in creating marketing initiatives, all of which should prove especially useful as we focus on additional key markets where we need to improve GM's performance.

Information can be useful if you can do something with it. If your commute goes across the American Legion Bridge, there aren't that many other options -- you can go through downtown Washington or you can swim. We don't recommend swimming.

I mean, we're here to try and do something useful and help keep the Internet something fun and useful for us and have a good time while we're at it.

I'm not an extreme tree-hugger. I do believe trees grow and are a useful agricultural product that can be harvested without damaging the ecology and wildlife.

I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities.I failed history.

If people want to believe that our ancestors were riding around on dinosaurs or that the protracted, increasing, and devastating warming of the Earth is just nature doing its thing - I guess I feel I have more useful battles to fight.

I live by Edith Wharton's rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.

I lived in Shetland for a short while in the seventies and have been visiting ever since, so I have lots of useful contacts!

I'm happy I've been all my life with my nation, was respected and honored by my nation, could be useful and help my people.

If there's a way to solve the problem of actually getting all that information together and setting it in the hands of somebody who can make a useful decision, then it's a promising possibility.

If nuclear technology is useful for the United States, isn't it useful for other countries? We do not accept global nuclear and scientific 'apartheid'.

I like science fiction movies, but I think they are useful for giving us ideas and I think science fiction is very good at giving ideas.

I like scoring goals and creating plays, but I think I would be more useful at midfield, ... My brother always played defense, but last year, they asked him to play forward because we needed help there and we had a lot of good defenders.

I like 'nerves'! I like the word 'migraineur'. I like the word 'madness'. These are OK words. The 19th century had a very handy term: 'neurasthenic'. I think that's a very useful word. We all know what that means: it means extra-sensitive.

Improvisation has to do with exploring something like two brothers in a room together. You find out things about situations by discovering the things that they aren't saying. It's a way to explore scenes. Sometimes it's more useful than others, but it's always there to see if there's anything that you might improve.

I loved my time in Congress, but people who spend all of their time planning to run for office have very few useful skills to deploy when they finally get there.

In the first stage of boyhood, he is led from ignorance and 'innocence' into the world of knowledge, when he is accepted as a pupil by a Guru (Preceptor). After that, he has to serve the Guru and obey him, without feeling burdened and bound. In the second stage of youth, he has to share with society the means and measures for its progress and security; he has to start earning for his livelihood and spending his income with intelligent care; he has also the duty of providing examples to those younger than himself and guide them into socially useful paths. At the same time, he must follow the footsteps of elders and learn from them lessons for his own advancement.

In the last 15 years, 70 to 77 percent of all parents with children under 13 find this ratings system very useful to fairly useful ... in helping parents make their own decisions.

Insistance upon specifics at this stage, given the history of the relationship, may not be a very useful negotiating tactic.

If you have an aging bunker, you might be able to get a few more years of useful life out of it.

No, I'm not leaving the electric violin to Vanessa Mae. I'm still playing quite a lot of electric stuff. But only when there is a need for it. I like rocking out. And the electric violin is useful for many other things. It's useful for really good effects and it's also great for rocking out, with the drums and the bass, get into really heavy stuff. At the moment I'm not really doing any projects involving that thing.

No man of honor, as that word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste and temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, or to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his

I've learned a lot, ... a lot more than I thought I would. Some of the hazardous material information is even useful in the hospital's day-to-day business.

The Chinese understand that slave labour, which they thrive on, is not productive or useful to the economy if it is only extracted by torture.

I'm giving him a Useful Pot to Keep Things In.

I'm disappointed and I am surprised. I think it would have been useful to have an extraordinary category. Now it's going to be easier to make it sound like all this indirect stuff was a result of the attack.

I'm going to be practicing my Chinese before I go. Probably just in basic conversation around the house. I hope to gain useful insight that I can bring back to my peers and community. I want to be able to share my knowledge about China with the students in my school and tell them about everything I learned.