DirectBuy had no reason to object to a settlement that offered a two-month extension to existing customer memberships and nuisance-value fees to the lawyers.
Most of us think of them as simply a nuisance - but for some cutting-edge scientists, fruit flies are nothing short of potential lifesavers.
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Nuisance - captures incidents where an act, condition, thing or person causes trouble, annoyance, irritation, inconvenience, offence or suffering to the local community in general rather than to individual victims.
Usually the scattering of energy is considered a nuisance -- whether driving in fog or poor reception from a cell phone tower -- and most techniques either try to avoid it (by turning on fog lights) or reduce the impact of scattering (by selecting energy for the phone only from direct paths).
For decades gas in remote locations was flared off as a nuisance by-product alongside more easily shipped oil.
Following a free-kick where Gary Cahill made a nuisance of himself, Lee Chung-yong beat the Everton defence to a header and Sturridge was free to smash in from the angle.
Those days are long gone: the administration now finds him an unco-operative nuisance.
Mr. Stewart is sometimes able to pack one week's worth of clothes in a handbag, avoiding the nuisance of long check-in lines at the airport.
Depending on your math and service plan, the price of sending a simple SMS text message can range from a minor nuisance, to high-tech highway robbery.
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Other figures show that begging and vagrancy cases are down by 80% in the drink-free zone and anti-social nuisance and noise rates have fallen by 10% and 15% respectively.
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Darren Fletcher patrolled the midfield with purpose, Carrick picked passes for fun, Valencia was a constant nuisance down the right-hand side, while Rooney's performance will cause the Wigan defence nightmares for months.
The NFL is four years away from its 50th Super Bowl, which means it is already trying to plan around a peculiar self-inflicted marketing nuisance: How can the world's most powerful sports league get around putting a big, fat "L" on hundreds of thousands of souvenir T-shirts?
America's insistence, whenever possible, on enclosing smokers in small glass-sided cubicles already protects non-smokers from both nuisance and any risk.
Manno also said that he and Osmus considered Martin a nuisance who peppered them with unwanted e-mail.
The original church was ordered to be rebuilt by da Gama soon after his second return from India in 1503, at a time when his growing sense of self-importance was becoming a nuisance to the authorities.
Debt-recovery procedures are another nuisance.
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Surveys also showed users were becoming more tolerant of spam, seeing it as "an acceptable nuisance rather than a cause for abandoning e-mail".
How nice at the international airport to be spared the nuisance of those arrival and departure cards, and--wow!
Mr Poots said it was a large and complex bill covering matters as widespread as anti-social behaviour, dog fouling, noise nuisance from burglar alarms, and graffiti.
Police said there was a 57% reduction in "youth-related annoyance" compared to the three months before the trail, and a 51% fall in all anti-social type incidents, including drink-related offences, criminal damage and noise nuisance.
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He still commands the loyalty of about a quarter of the DPJ's 289 lower-house MPs, which gives him plenty of nuisance value.
Burly journeyman Dele Adebola proved to be a nuisance for defenders Danny Gabbidon and Herita Ilunga, while man-of-the-moment Lewis McGugan and Chris Cohen were beginning to combine well for the visitors on the right.
So the state of Rhode Island, with lead paint in 60% of its 415, 000 homes (the national average is 25%), changed tactics and brought a public nuisance case against Sherwin and two other past producers of lead-paint pigment.
Enterprising trial lawyers convinced Rhode Island and several municipalities to sue lead-paint companies under the theory their products created a nuisance by spreading lead in housing where children could ingest it and suffer brain damage.
Indeed, street-level harassment is like traffic for drivers, an unavoidable nuisance women confront whenever they leave the house.
Wal-Mart used to take a hard line on what its executives viewed as nuisance lawsuits.
The firms and Mr Hudson, 63, of Main Street, Sutton-on-Derwent, were each found guilty of two charges of causing statutory noise nuisance in breach of a noise abatement order.
The stand had gone beyond nuisance value for England when Bresnan cranked up his speed and pegged back Johnson's off-stump to silence a growing swell of approval from the Australian spectators.
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