But, a couple of weeks with the gorgeous, if questionably useful device, has started to produce some truly exciting results.
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Spending a quarter of a century building something and then scuttling it looks bad, even if the useful science that has been done on board could be written up on the back of a postage stamp.
These are allies who not only posess the most deployable military forces in Europe, should America need them, but also have influence in parts of the world, from Europe to the Middle East and Asia, that will be equally useful if America's diplomats are to turn the coalition of sympathisers into something more useful and enduring.
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If you hear a traffic report that the road ahead is blocked, it is only useful if you haven't already passed the last place that you could divert to avoid the problem.
Anything humans can make is considered patentable, if it is useful and passes the obviousness test.
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The mob's behaviour might still be useful if it acted as a contrarian indicator.
The scale involves asking questions such as if they feel useful, loved and been interested by new things.
Pahlka started her project thinking it might be useful if government tapped open source developers to create better applications.
It's useful if you're buying books while sitting on the beach in Italy.
But that AAA would only really be useful if it were used to back the guarantee to the EFSF.
Consulting can be especially useful if you are looking for a way to keep your skills sharp and valuable.
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She offers a sort of entertaining, if not terribly useful, way to search.
This tool also brings up search results from Google Drive, which is useful if people also use Google Docs.
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But I could see this site being useful if it partnered with OkCupid, Match, EHarmony, or some other dating site.
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There's even a model that meets MIL-STD-461F standards for electromagnetic protection -- useful if your day job involves battling superheroes.
Shafi thought it would be useful if companies were able to establish relationships with high potential people below that top executive tier.
He also announced some useful if belated practical steps to arouse interest.
Research is also being conducted to determine if thalidomide is useful in the treatment of AIDS and arthritis as well as other cancers.
This is especially useful if there is Child Tax Credit that becomes Refundable Child Tax Credit when you add the Retirement Savers Credit.
However, they then looked at whether analysts were still useful if investors also relied on past changes in share prices to guide their expectations.
The historical data used to predict recessions in the past are less useful if a new shock cannot be offset with fiscal and monetary policy.
On cross-examination, prosecutor Joe McGettigan, who opposed Mr. Amendola at trial, focused on whether the documents would have been useful if he had had more time.
Sir Mervyn said that lending more money to Greece, the eurozone's current strategy, is only useful if it buys time to somehow make those debts affordable.
That is, our new economics is terribly useful if we assume that politics and politicians (or even public policy making) can be made rational, perfect and efficient.
As the researchers themselves admit, the data would be more useful if they included more than the first-year salaries of those graduates who remain in state to work.
It's good to be efficient, because a huge payroll is even more useful if none of it is wasted, but it isn't necessary, at least in the Bronx.
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Asimo, by contrast, is an ornate, expensive and complicated piece of machinery that really only seems useful if you need a machine that can climb a stair for you.
HGS, gets human antibodies out of the mice and, if these prove useful in a test tube, makes human monoclonals directly from XenoMouse for further testing as potential drugs.
But their juxtaposition provides even the hardened student with some new perspectives, and there are useful if brief looks at more recondite questions such as Israel's relations with the Gulf states.
Figuring out how to do the laundry, cook a basic meal or even wait for a handyman "are not crippling responsibilities" but rather "minor life skills" that can prove useful if the housekeeper cancels.
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