The analogy is useful because real-life recessive genes, such as those for eye color, hair color and other traits, follow this same set of rules.
What Google gets from Buzz is a new means of organization, one that should make Google an even more useful part of life--with the not-incidental effect of improving its ability to sell advertising on its search results and mail.
In practice, however, it is a formula for condemning America's armed forces to operating obsolete equipment long after its useful service life is ended -- and inviting others to perceive and perhaps to act upon exploitable weaknesses on the part of the United States.
Although she would like a new car, she decides that her five-year-old sedan has several years of useful life in it.
Those abilities (we can name this meta-competences) will be useful all along their professional life.
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And hosting these students gives the U.S. an opportunity to show them American life and values in action, a useful myth-dispelling exercise.
Anyone who has taken a life-saving medication or paid for a useful service, for example, has left behind a profit for the provider and is thankful for the benefits received.
Such technology could be useful in power-sucking data centers and handheld devices with limited batter life, such as smartphone sand tablets, obviously.
Useful or not, life vests are a legal requirement on ocean-bound flights.
In theory, this is an annual write-off that adds up to an asset's cost over its useful life.
E-waste is electrical and electronic equipment that is at the end of its useful life.
Work-life management experts Tony Schwartz, David Allen, and others have useful techniques for setting up routines to get more done.
James Christie, it was said, could sell fog to a Londoner--a useful skill for the man whose name has since become synonymous with the business of furnishing the well-heeled life.
"We regularly identify apps that our owners rely on as part of their everyday life, and adapt them for an in-vehicle experience they'll find safe, useful and engaging, " said Phil Johnston, Product Manager for the BMW Group Apps Platform from the BMW Group Technology Office.
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