Google got rid of a host of unwieldy and barely used products and features in 2011.
As dot-coms collapsed, Google took over cheap office space, barely used Aeron chairs, dozens of servers and platoons of out-of-work programmers.
Construction took three years and countless man-hours, as machines were barely used.
The 1789 law was barely used until the 1980s, when enterprising lawyers dusted it off to sue corporations over human-rights abuses in foreign countries.
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Cassidy said in an interview that in the United Kingdom, where UFT is approved, it is barely used, and Cutsem said in his presentation that it was probably the preferable agent.
In parceling out the airwaves, the FCC devotes skimpy spectrum to the booming market for 200 million cell phone users in the U.S. yet preserves barely used bandwidth for old UHF channels.
More important, both are enmeshed in the squabble over video on demand, or VOD, which allows customers to view a new, or barely used, film in the nest of their own home.
But Shapiro says autobiography--a term that wasn't part of the language until the 19th century--was barely used in any kind of work in Shakespeare's time save for the odd sermon or other religious writing.
Many people lacked basic skills or education and had barely ever used a telephone, much less a computer or sophisticated factory equipment.
Investors in infrastructure also want long-lasting projects with stable cash flows, which means they will probably leave it to the government to build stadiums that may barely be used after the 2016 Olympics.
In an economy where income per person used to rise by barely 1% a year, today's growth rates feel like a miracle.
This year 55.3% of respondents said they used Facebook for recruiting, barely up from 54.6% last year.
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And why should the red tape and lessons of a hundred-year-old industry be used to regulate one that has barely begun?
However, the contract was scrubbed as it was realized that it would be an embarrassment to have an 80, 000 seat stadium used by a team that can barely muster a crowd of 10, 000 per home game.
The technique, dubbed optogenetics, is barely five years old and, so far, has been used only on laboratory animals.
Reared in the honest precincts of New England, she could not get used to Texas place-names that advertised mountains that were barely more than hummocks or supposedly mighty lakes that would not have qualified as a pond back home.
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