Loyalty programs can show that a person is not a useless customer, if the firm knows how to use the information.
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The April jobs estimate range survey that between 15, 000 and 215, 000 jobs were created is so wide as to not only be useless but dangerous as well.
Given this lack of seriousness, it may be time for a reappraisal as to whether the alliance as currently constituted is largely useless if not an actual impediment to our safety.
Like most drive wiping devices, the Guard Dog employs massively powerful magnets that not only render hard drives useless, but VHS tapes, DAT tapes, ZIP drives, and any other magnetic media to boot.
My entire Steam list (yes, I actually took the time to check to see what worked and what did not) has bee rendered useless, Origin dead, and any and all other games aside from emulators crash instantly.
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But not handy enough to justify totally useless degrees and tens of thousands of dollars of debt.
Mr Cervi said he tried to reassure his wife over the phone and dialled 999, but said he felt "useless" he could not help more.
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Obviously the report does not take the simplistic approach that all regulations are bad, just as not all federal spending is wasteful and useless.
"I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction, " he says.
And not being especially fond of perfectly-worded, useless questions, we advocate for an end to that sort of data.
In this rare type of recession, monetary policy is useless because people with negative equity will not borrow, no matter what the interest rate.
One of the most useless pieces of advice out there is to not take work personally.
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However, they do seem to be "useless, " says Goldstein, who was not involved in the study.
If they do not, they may find that those drugs have become useless.
Even Joseph Juran, one of the two American post-war germinators of the quality idea (the other was W. Edwards Deming), considered that quality circles were pretty useless if the company's management was not trained in the more general principles of total quality management.
This does not surprise environmentalists, who have long argued that any policy of pollution-reduction that does not include a threat of punishment for non-compliance is useless.
Like rationality, self-interest (even when broadly defined) fails to capture some aspects of social behaviour, but not so many as to render models based on the notion useless.
The union on Friday asked the state Public Employment Relations Board to intervene and settle the issue, but the city labeled the request one of several "useless PR stunts" and said the board did not have jurisdiction.
Sure, part of the bill will pave the way for some of the freed up spectrum to get earmarked for emergency services to use, but it's not like failing to render everyone's analog box completely useless is really going to endanger public safety.
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"If Bill de Blasio spent more time reading The Wall Street Journal and less time writing us useless letters, he would know that the City is not even considering doing the things he urges us not to do, " mayoral spokeswoman Julie Wood said in an email.
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Useless courses would naturally disappear and non-academic people would not be made to look stupid but would instead be able to go down a career path they actually enjoy.
And, he stresses, the volume of often useless data generated by social media users during outbreaks of contagious diseases should not be viewed as a problem.
Whether his comments were mind games or not, they certainly seemed to do the trick in Phillip Island as Pedrosa was absolutely useless in the wet and finished 15th.
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He seems not to recognize that all the index funds and carefully benchmarked renditions of the entire market are useless if no one does the fundamental analysis that yields accurate valuations for the companies.
Although electrospun bovine serum albumin does not actually break up into droplets, the resulting threads have been so short and irregular as to be useless.
Branson would not be who he is today if he decided to play it safe and put up with the grueling and useless days of schooling.
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