Could a nation facing huge trade deficits make its cash cards useless for buying imported products?
Those gaps exist in part because America has urged its allies to avoid useless duplication.
But a tool is useless without its handle, the thing your customers can grasp.
The transaction had felt flirtatious to him, and the atmosphere of the downtown, beneath its drooping festoon of useless cables, seemed festive.
But they are also aware that lecturing the Kremlin about its behaviour at home or abroad is useless.
Having that many outfielders who are that useless is a problem in its own right, but also a symptom of something else, like an inability to develop or acquire certain kinds of talent.
Out of necessity, India is emerging as a model for tackling these problems, both because its companies have become expert in turning useless graduates into useful ones and because it has allowed industry to take the lead in creating a huge new programme to tackle skills shortages.
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They argue that a gun separated from its ammunition, disabled or locked away is useless in an emergency.
Even media studies, long the butt of every joke about useless academic qualifications, has smartened up its act.
Right now the default Corel FTP site is pretty useless, since it is constantly at its limit of 300 users.
As with its little brother, though, the flash was borderline useless -- washing out anything in the foreground and casting the background into almost complete darkness.
What particularly disturbs me here is not the fact that the SEC, which has all sorts of problems with its main mission of uncovering fraud, has unleashed another useless and costly disclosure rule on firms at a time when they struggling to make money and provide jobs.
After several blocks I came across a Wells Fargo bank branch lit in the full blaze of noon, its wide space and swaths of red and yellow bathed in useless light, as it is all through every night when there is power.
"It is a message to Bernard Arnault that it will be useless to pursue a takeover attempt because the family has relinquished its right to sell, " says Patrick Albaladejo, executive vice president for strategic development and image and close adviser to Thomas.
It soaks up its own weight in sweat, which quickly converts to ice, and the resulting solid frost armor is worse than useless when it comes to insulation.
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