• This may or may not prove a useful thing to know on certain Saturday nights.

    NEWYORKER: The Disconnect

  • So the President feels very strongly that this was a useful thing to do.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Sort of a lazy man's social phone, but we reckon that can be quite a useful thing for the targeted demographic of college students.

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  • It would be ironic if it took a stockmarket crash to convince New York's politicians that the private sector might just be a useful thing.

    ECONOMIST: New York��s infrastructure

  • It's symmetry that the banks should therefore not only make good the damage caused by the economic crisis but should also perpetually become a useful thing in society.

    BBC: Robin Hood banking tax 'would raise billions'

  • United, while not exactly contrite, can nevertheless sense which way the wind is blowing, which is a useful thing for an airline, and has reinitiated contact with the aggrieved musician.

    FORBES: United breaks guitars

  • "We live in an ever smaller global community and we probably are at a point where we believe having some language skills is a useful thing - it's what I would call a vocational skill really, " he says.

    BBC: 'Gaming' the school league tables?

  • But there was a decision made in this case that having an ambassador there was a useful thing to have and has been useful in communicating directly precisely because we can speak very clearly in this case regarding our opposition and concern about the behavior of the government against its people.

    WHITEHOUSE: White House Press Briefing

  • As a liberal, I cannot walk the same distances as my anarchist friends, but I do appreciate and enjoy their critique, and I think that regardless of whether you are a liberal, a libertarian, or an anarchist (of whichever stripe) understanding that critique and internalizing it as much as possible is a useful thing.

    FORBES: Blogging 'The Conscience of an Anarchist' by Gary Chartier

  • And there is no agenda, there's no goal in terms of budget or any other issue, except to have that kind of conversation, which I think he finds to be a useful thing to do in terms of, in some ways, creating a better environment for the kind of work that the White House and the Congress need to do together.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • For curbing bad guys, the speed and visibility of the Internet can be a very useful thing.

    FORBES: Six Keys to Managing Your Reputation on the Web

  • There is always a tension between having a common means of exchange, a useful and good thing, and having to have the same interest rate, the same external currency conversion rate, not necessarily a good thing.

    FORBES: Yes, We Did Know the Euro Was Going To Fail

  • This will be something for government as a whole to consider and it may well be that a campaign is the sort of useful thing that could occur.

    BBC: Minister: 'Lighter later' campaign may find favour

  • If you prefer the second theory, then you might consider grades a useful instrument of positive or negative reinforcement, but the only thing that matters is what students actually learn.

    NEWYORKER: Live and Learn

  • But mobile money and other new ideas that could help the poor (see article) provide a useful reminder that financial innovation in itself is not always a bad thing.

    ECONOMIST: Telecoms

  • My experience trying out the procedure, and enlisting friends to report one of my status posts (without the final step of actually contacting a crisis counselor not a good idea to waste their time) was that the whole thing is useful but kludgy.

    FORBES: Suicide Prevention Comes to Facebook: A Life-Saving Option With A Dark Side

  • For those fairly confident that you won't be taking Divineo up on this questionably useful mod, you should still click on through for a live action video of this thing rocking out, but be very sure that you adore Metallica first, and don't say we didn't warn you.

    ENGADGET: Divineo offers up LCD-infused Xbox 360, practicality in doubt

  • For one thing, a lot of what makes it into these not-quite-fact-checks is useful information that provides important context about what politicians are saying.

    FORBES: Fact-Checkers as Civility Police

  • They all thought computing was just a thing for nerds, and it was a list of functions that could be performed that would be useful.

    BBC: The year in business: 2011

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