Their work there was aimed at separating the light, fissile isotope of uranium (useful for making bombs and reactors), from its more abundant, but less useful, heavy cousin.
The offering is proof that while hard partying 20-somethings at start-ups such as Yelp may grab headlines, the new tech boom is creating real money for companies that may be less sexy but more useful.
But he says they are less useful for vegetables, which often carry less harmful bacteria.
Eventually you can get it all to work much like TiVo, storing and retrieving shows on the hard drive, but in more awkward and less useful ways.
Extremely useful still for freight but less so for the movement of people over long distances.
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Which would be the same data as the second but in a form, paradoxically, less useful to anyone.
Of course, these questions could have been resolved on Google in less than a minute, but they were useful questions (according to Coz), and, so far, Sasha had resisted.
Which is less catchy as a phrase, but has a longer useful life.
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This rendered the websites less useful than their potential for communicating logistics, but still provided some centralization of information.
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Moving toward a relative ratings system is not a silver bullet, but it may be a useful incremental step toward smaller, less damaging credit cycles in the future.
PRTs have been a useful improvisation in difficult circumstances, fairly effective in improving security but less so at development work.
Sure, digital tuning and presets make this less useful than it might have been a few years ago, but we like the idea of being able to scroll and randomly find a station we might like, without having to wait for a station break to find out where we are.
Safety campaigners have suggested lower speed limits make crashes less likely and less severe when they do happen but the figures have triggered a debate on how useful the restrictions are.
Current accounting rules allow retailers that sign certain long-term leases to omit the leased property from their balance sheets. (The basic rule is that omission is acceptable if the lease term is less than 75% of the useful life of the building.) But the Financial Accounting Standards Board may change that next year.
As markets tumble and commentators tear their hair, it is difficult to accept that Japan's recession may have useful side-effects of this kind but that makes it no less true.
This list is certainly less intrusive than the questionnaire my friend had me fill out, but it may be just as useful.
Another strategy involves using less energy (100 kV instead of the standard 120 kV), which is effective but useful only for patients who are not obese.
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