But it is very useful background noise.

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This might make sense to accountants, but it is not a very useful way for investors to value businesses.

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It is going to be very useful.

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It is just not very convincing, or useful.

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Once you get used to it, the new stuff is extremely cool and very useful.

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But it is still a useful vote bank in a very close election.

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Getting involved in social action of some sort is also very useful, as it leads people to feel they are doing something on a larger level, Pearlman said.

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Mr. ANDREW FIRE (Scientist, Stanford University Medical School): Of course, you know, therapy in monkeys is very useful, but in people it's going to be another question.

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However, Obama and Congress still have an opportunity to do something very useful: Clean up the law so it is simpler and smarter.

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But the basic point of the FT article still stands: the PPI scandal might be bad for the banks' reputation, and their balance sheets, but it is now putting money in people's pockets at a very useful time.

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While the color offset is fine for viewing baby's play habits, it's not very useful when trying to identify the colors of a perpetrator's clothing to police.

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My testing shows that this signal is this is backward-looking and not very useful, but since a large number of people believe it, they act on it resulting in a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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