In a report last July on the Sky Express crash, the National Transportation Safety Board found that ineffective government oversight allowed the Charlotte, N.

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The Patriot missile, retrospectively found to be ineffective in 1991, has been improved considerably.

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The Justice Department found the ban ineffective.

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The study found other treatments both expensive and ineffective.

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Despite starting the research on 100 college students with the hypothesis that multitaskers had some special abilities, the study found that multitaskers were actually quite ineffective at managing information, maintaining attention, and getting results.

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Scientists have found that the genetic mutation which renders codeine ineffective is much more common among northern Europeans, than those who hail from the Mediterranean.

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An expensive and common procedure treating back pain from osteoporosis turns out to be ineffective, no better than a fake surgery, two major studies have found.

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It found that the routine the tug crew followed before towing or entering fog was "ineffective", with the watertight engine room door left open and the crew not being used in the most effective manner once in the fog.

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During unannounced inspections in April and May, CQC staff found unreplenished medicine supplies meaning some residents had to go without treatment, poor record keeping and ineffective monitoring of accidents.

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This was despite repeated clinical trials which have found that homeopathic medicines - which contain heavily diluted traces of the substance causing the illness - are ineffective.

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