Some of this story is told in a patchy but useful book by Herbert Inhaber, Why Energy Conservation Fails (Quorum, 1997).
Honoring the dynamic tension between asset enhancement and liabilities reduction is a simple but useful way of starting conversations about important topics within companies.
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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.
Some 13% think they are useful, but not easy to use, while another 9% think they are easy to access but not useful.
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.
Money is not wealth but a useful unit of account tracking our human transactions.
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W. Bush appointed presidential commissions to examine the failed programs, but nothing useful came from either.
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Such an armada might not, however, be necessary to produce a more modest but still useful effect.
The implication is that methods and models are neither deity nor demon, but are useful metaphorical accounts of how people can change.
It was quite entertaining at the time but proved useful during birth.
You've got the core of the chromosome, and then there are arms which are not essential but do useful things, like making antibiotics.
Temperature has its weaknesses, but is useful for indicating comfort, and the costs to maintain that comfort, while people are indoors where humidity, sunlight and wind matter less.
DisplayMate points out that it provides full HD in a 5 inch screen, which is not only impressive but also useful because so much video content is now HD.
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Inappropriate for most weddings but perfectly useful for spies.
It repackages Google's search results, but with useful tweaks.
David Field, professor of neonatology at the University of Leicester, said the US findings did not give the green light for using nitric oxide treatment, but were useful pointers to further research.
Mascarenhas was eventually caught by Patel at third man and the Kiwis took late-order wickets, but a useful 15 off 10 balls by Graeme Swann at the end helped England up to 184-8.
The SEC's position is somewhere in the middle, that board independence has nothing to do with improving fund performance but is useful in eliminating conflicts of interest--that is, in keeping the business honest.
The credit goes to the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, which in 1937 pushed through laws ending the growth, trade and consumption of all forms of cannabis, including the inert but commercially useful hemp plant.
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.
The survey wasn't designed to determine causes but is useful in assembling a "more complete picture of autism" and in helping communities plan services for children, said Coleen Boyle, director of the CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities.
In the video after the break you can see the concept being illustrated with playful examples that interact with the program, but more useful applications include the ability for users to pull up subtitles for public information videos, or overlay sign language.
The original grand vision of Tobii's founders was to put eye-tracking technology into every computer, but there are some that wonder if eye-tracking might be the next Bluetooth, useful but not widely used.
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But most native English-speakers opt for Afrikaans, said to be easy to learn, rather than a useful but harder African tongue.
Such precise control over the material's structure makes possible materials with useful but unusual properties.
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