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Targeted ads, I think, are useful because I don't want to see all the crap. I'm not interested in buying a Mercedes Benz, but I am interested in buying a new MacBook Air. So if organizations like Facebook can actually make the ads more relevant to me, if they know what I am interested in, I have no problem with that.

Not that a B.F.A. in theater arts has been the most useful degree one could ever acquire.

The ballot is only useful as a screen from arbitrary power.

Students will learn skills that are useful in all majors. Students majoring in communications and organizational development could really benefit from this course.

Still, there may be technologies that are very useful in identifying people over the age of 18 because they have all kinds of identifying characteristics, while those same tech may be useless for 12- and 13-year-olds.

The biggest hurdle is those that have relevant information may be afraid to come forward, ... PC makers may have a lot of useful information, but if they rely on Microsoft, there may be some reluctance to come forward. Hopefully, this will show the government is serious and those companies will go forward.

That is particularly useful for those creating service and training manuals, online brochures, and catalogues.

The big pharmaceutical companies are set up to handle blockbusters with their massive sales forces, and I don't think they have done anything to really address this future in any useful way.

It's really useful to talk these things through informally, without commitment, without being reported as your government position. I think the mutual understanding is growing, even if the mutual acceptance is not necessarily growing.

The new contract would be more useful for hedging purposes.

A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited, and defined, and by which these powers are distributed among several departments, for their more safe and useful exercise, for the benefit of the body politic.

nominee with relevant non-judicial experience would bring a different and useful perspective to the court.

All our art programs have maintained a close working relationship with the museum during Michael's tenure. It's extremely useful for us to have a museum of this quality in the city because the VCU School of the Arts only has a small resident collection of its own.

Does the difficulty in ensuring each and every employee of such companies is not tied to insurgent groups and not potentially providing useful targeting information to these groups argue against continuing to employ such firms unless there is no alternative?

Despite a lack of hints from the company, we believe it is useful to hypothesize on new initiatives Apple may have in the works and take a look at which initiatives, if any, make sense for the company, ... We believe Apple has a foundation in place to be the hub for consumer digital media.

The new Sprint-cable partnerships will forever transform what used to be merely a cell phone into an indispensable third screen in customers' lives, ... With the convergence of technologies and capabilities accelerating, we will create personalized content, useful innovative applications and easy-to-understand navigation required by consumers.

It's pretty rough, I just wish they would leave me alone. I'm just trying to be a useful citizen. I've got to live with it.

It's up to you to decide if you want to commit to being part of the community. We want to be useful whether you choose to be a part of the community or not.

At this time, it's probably most useful to encourage that discussion to continue rather than weighing in on every possible proposal.

I want to be able to take a laptop computer and make another laptop computer, not a speed bump. The dream with our technology is to be able, at low cost, to recover the polymer in its originally useful form.

I wanted to write a beautiful book that was useful to other people who find themselves in the same position.

I wanted to set this up as I think it would be a useful exercise for councillors from the local areas discuss issues of concern with the gardaí, ... It would also be useful for the gardaí as there are areas where our views would prove useful to them.

The message was certainly delivered in forceful terms that this was certainly not a useful thing.

It is the task of theologians to establish the limits of justice and injustice regarding the intrinsic goodness or wickedness of an act; it is the task of the observer of public life to establish the relationships of political justice and injustice, that is, of what is useful or harmful to society.

It's been very useful for those students who are shy and may not participate in face-to-face classroom discussions.

It's very useful for people with high-profile jobs.

The vehicles are replaced based on the useful life cycle of the equipment.

The U.S. have taken useful steps ... there is much more to do.

It will be useful to the world at large in addition to the markets because that will give a feel for the first time about how, in general, the world thinks Iraq is going.

They are keeping the source code, (which) means that their product becomes wrapped in it and encapsulated, and in a sense (this is) going against the ideals and benefits of what made Linux useful to them in the first place.

They are not suspects, but we would like to talk to them - they do have some information that can be useful to us,

They are not toys. They are very useful tools that save you a lot of money.

Iran considers pursuing unconditional talks with the three European countries useful and welcomes it under the current circumstances.

In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.

Clearly, financial guidance would be very useful at this stage since we're really shooting in the dark. If we get nothing more than financial guidance that would all be just a bonus to me.

Clearly I'm going to crash the spacecraft anyway, ... We're trying to do the most useful thing scientifically.

I honestly think anthropology is one of the most useful fields a fantasy writer can study, more so even than history.

I often heard how advancements due to NASA research and development help mankind enormously and, if you live in an icy part of the U.S., this is further proof of the accuracy of that statement. NASA technology played a key role in the development of this very useful product.

If you want to know how a horse has run in wet weather, click and it's there. On the grass, at a certain distance, and so forth. It is useful for both the experienced player and the novice.

In theory this is useful but in practice I would not expect more than changes at the margin.

In my view, the Supreme Court would benefit from the addition of a justice who has real experience as a practicing lawyer. The current justices have all been chosen from the lower federal courts. A nominee with relevant non-judicial experience would bring a different and useful perspective to the Court.

But it's a useful way of increasing sales and drawing attention to literary fiction, which is no bad thing.

Because the sales are so big, surely as a state we can afford to stay out of some unique, sensitive and useful places and still have a big volume of gas leasing.

Behavior is mutable. It changes from place to place. It's like accents, dialect - it varies from one area to another. But there are universal truths about what it means to be a human being. All the other stuff is like applique. Learning that was interesting to me and probably useful for becoming an actor.

Behaviors such as those observed during our study provide a useful and sensitive tool for gauging the effects of recreational activities on wildlife. If bird behavior can be carefully quantified, then management strategies can be developed before these and other potentially harmful activities result in long-term negative consequences to bird populations.

Before you take the data from this study and say 'we should leap out to say this proves we should have national licensing and registration' it would be useful to know one of the things they didn't look at, which was. 'Does licensing and registration also depress gun ownership by law abiding people?

By soliciting input from a diverse mix of OEMs, EMS providers, suppliers and R&D institutes, we help ensure that the roadmap will be useful to industry. We are also actively recruiting participation from Europe and Asia to make sure that we have a global perspective.

By the definition accepted in the United States, any person with even a small amount of Negro Blood... is a Negro. Logically, it would be exactly as justifiable to say that any person with even a small amount of white blood is white. Why do they say one rather than the other? Because the former classification suits the convenience of those making the classification. Society, in short, regards as true those systems that produce the desired results. Science seeks only the most generally useful systems of classification; these it regards for the time being, until more useful classifications are invented, as true.

I didn't set out to be an icon, to save the lesbians of the world. But women were hungry. We were starving for someone who talked about what we were thinking and feeling. And somehow I stumbled into a clearing -- here are some things I found that maybe would be useful -- and I flew them out like model airplanes.

Clearly with any set of results it is possible to put a spin on, but the underlying figures don't lie. We sought to involve leaders in information technology to make the results as useful as possible.

General aviation will be particularly useful in security work, traffic control, organization of events and medical assistance during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing .

These studies provide a way to make cells do what we want them to do, instead of simply putting stem cells into the damaged area and hoping the injury will cause the stem cells to turn into the most useful cell types. It really changes the way we think about this problem.

These two companies give a must-have lesson for all retailers. Shaper Image has seen sales jump in the double-digits because they keep innovating and offering new, fun and useful products.

These pills can be useful pills, but they don't match up to the hype we've had that they really cure the illness.

They were toast, pretty much done. Most of the harbors were at the end of their useful life.

It's a model that's very useful for a very narrow set of U.S. interests.

It was a complicated situation for us as we had many players injured. But it was a useful match.

A plane is not just a big toy but a useful thing. You can use it for travel, research and of course fun, like sightseeing.

A new resolution is neither useful nor necessary,

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations

Anywhere you have an active level of climbing, you're going to see fixed anchors. There are different kinds of fixed anchors, from a bolt drilled into a rock or an old-time piton hammered into a crack. It's everything from the actual hardware to nylon webbing wrapped around an outcrop. They provide protection for climbers and are particularly useful when you're coming down or rappelling.

After some initial discontent, there was general agreement that it was useful to think more carefully and consistently about our grading practices.

A very useful increase in customer footfall in Central London has helped to generate this exceptional rate of growth. This in turn reflects the ongoing recovery from the events of last July which retailers will be doing their best to sustain.

a very useful instrument in bridging differences between the two countries.

The briefing focused on the Treasury's authorities to combat illicit finance and the tools we utilize to protect the U.S. financial system, and afforded a useful opportunity to clarify numerous issues.

A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cotton cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing before the separation of the useful and the beautiful.

The frontal offset crash tests aren't providing consumers with much useful information anymore.

The current RFID initiative is distorted by the push from the retailers to have a useful system in large volumes in a short time.

The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.

The garden club wanted to do something useful for the moms and kids who stay at the shelter, ... We put Sara's garden right next to the vegetable garden and the purpose of the garden is to provide an opportunity and place for clients to have a quite and restful place to focus on nature and flowers.

The Grow Green program, which is a joint program of Extension and the City of Austin Watershed Protection Development Review, has produced a free guide on weeds that's available to anyone with an interest in gardening. It's a nice, full-color publication with lots of useful information for home gardeners.

The important thing is for students to know that it's OK to fail. Failure teaches success you don't have to aim for law school or medical school as alternatives for living a full and useful life.

The U.N. has proved to be a useful tool for the U.S..

The information will be useful in terms of who encounters these birds in the future, where they go, maybe also how long they live.

The DNA test was useful for discounting these urban legends,

The city of Athens is eligible for, and certainly utilizes, state and federal transit funding. The university is not eligible for those, so combining with the city has that advantage. It is my theory that if the city uses its transit dollars and ability to get grant money, and the university uses a minor student fee, we should be able to build a more useful system and promote it.

The challenge we face is distinguishing between useful envisioning of the future as something to be created, versus expecting things to evolve according to our preconceptionsand then feeling victimized when events don't unfold as we expected.

And it was from this desire to serve the church in the most useful and efficient way that the vow of special obedience to the pope was born.

The Truck Stick is a bit gimmicky, but it's useful in short yardage and goal line situations.

A computer can be a useful and indispensable tool. But if we allow it to devour our time with vain, unproductive, and sometimes destructive pursuits, it becomes an entangling net.

For at least another hundred years we must pre­tend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.

It's a local company with some useful code, engineers who obviously have skills and background and experience in the type of systems management that HP has. We don't know the terms of the deal, but it probably was not all that expensive. It looks to be a good deal for HP.

It's one of those balancing acts, those judgment calls where you want to provide your constituents with information that may be useful to them, but you try to do that without being criticized as being too political.

At last the IEA is doing something useful apart from the collection of statistics. Better late than never.

There was a lot of really useful stuff here. I'm planning on coming back next year.

There's always talk, 'Let's build an open-air football facility some place,' ... Could that happen someday? Probably. But I would think the Dome would have to probably reach the end of its useful life.

It's useful to raise admission standards, but we need to be sensitive. We need to make sure IU stays a diverse place and stays a place that rewards people who come here to work hard.

It's useful to remember where we were in 2003 with liberation. In 2003, Iraq had the highest debt ... as a share of gross domestic product in the world. And today about two-thirds of that debt has been written off as a result of the support by the international community.

It's useful to think of the imagination as an aspect of the body because it seems to have processes of its own that are obscure to us.

It's useful to validate specifications as they go through standardization.

It's useful when a problem comes up that you have no experience of. You then have somebody you can refer to, ... The workplace would be a far nicer place if people said 'thank you' a bit more often.

It might be useful for someone at home or traveling, but not at the mosque. Everyone here already knows what time prayers are.

It might be at such an astronomical price that it won't be a very useful service.

It really helps if you know your subject matter immediately. I find that enormously useful because then you can concentrate on all the usual novelistic things - the character, the plot and so forth - and you don't have to spend an enormous amount of time learning another trade, essentially.

It's a really great thing for volunteers to have. It makes them more useful during a disaster. When I went to Mississippi for Katrina, there were times down there when they didn't have enough drivers.

As much as it eats you up inside not to play (quarterback), you've got to understand the circumstances, ... If I can make myself useful to this team, that's another day of experience I'm getting. I'll do whatever they need me to do for that.

As useful as it may be, in the end, I don't think technology can ever fully express what people are feeling in their hearts.

As well as helping Aaron prepare Justin is very useful to the Wales squad, as he is the only one who can push back Kevin Evans (heavyweight hope). As a reward, Justin will get four days holiday in Thailand after Aaron moves on to Australia on March 9.

Economic policymakers face enormous uncertainty. Economic models provide a set of useful tools to frame future outcomes, but as we were reminded repeatedly during our efforts to forecast the economy in 1974 and 1975, models can go off track in myriad ways, ... Objective and thorough analysis ... is the most effective counterweight to this challenge.