Sentences with phrase «good old use»

The late author David Foster Wallace called it a «noxious puff - word [because] it does nothing that good old use doesn't do.»

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Morton used six tapes of interviews to write the biography, knowing that he was sitting on revelations that could tear apart the country's oldest and best - loved institution.

Freeland, a former journalist who would have been used to obfuscation in her old job, has become rather good at it in her new life as a cabinet minister.

So why are you still using an old POS system that «leaks» energy, slowing down your business and costing you money as well?

Too many companies get used to doing things a certain way, sometimes to their detriment — and your questions force a healthy re-examination of whether the old way is the best way.

If anything, the dry skin on the top and back of her head seemed to get markedly worse after using this soft scrubbing tool, and we discussed tossing it in favor of good old washcloths.

The NGRAIN system proved so popular with the F - 35 that it's now being used on older F - 22s as well.

In 2011, Mayor Michael Bloomberg hired the city's first - ever chief digital officer, Rachel Sterne, who was a 27 - year - old entrepreneur and Columbia Business School prof, to help the city use technology to better serve citizens and save taxpayer money by making services more efficient and accessible online.

Where they differ in particular is that they are applying technology to identify problems, and using good old fashioned engineering to solve them.

Hungarian residents put their old desktop computers and keyboards to good use this weekend.

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The reason it works is because there is some added intelligence to the communication, better tracking, and a smarter use of technology; email is getting too old and outdated.

Here's how you can put your old phone to good use.

My kids rarely use their phones for old - school phone calls, so they appreciate and respond best to quick messages about their day's activities.

«Our philosophy is, if someone has an old iPod and doesn't want to use it because they have a new one, well, let's put that iPod in the hands of someone who will use it,» Littlehale says.»

There's no need to sound the alarms and go into panic mode if you're still using good old - fashioned pen and paper signatures, but now is a good time to think about switching.

Ray notes that there are a few things to remember: «One, DO NOT be afraid of technology, INVEST in [it]; Two, BACKUP your technology [and] get experts to help you use it better; Three, STOP using old technology; Four, every six months consider refreshing your technology; Five, DO NOT just replace it but at least consider what's new.

There's plenty of blame to go around here — the (mostly) no - name cable makers for peddling junk, retailers like Amazon for allowing it be sold, the USB Implementers Forum for not getting the word out all that well — but the end result is anyone with a USB - C device having to take absurd precautions just to ensure they can use older accessories or spare cables without blowing up their phone.

He himself claimed to be» «an old school point and click prop trader» who had «always been good with reflexes and doing things quick,»» and the «Layering Algorithm» that he used was a customized version of «a program that allowed non-programmers to engage in automated trading using spreadsheet commands and functions.»

The success of the new phone did little to mollify investors who were anticipating far better sales of the older phone and were used to Apple's long - standing habit of blowing past Wall Street's expectations.

Currently, they're also not a very good option for an eCommerce store since they're using old outdated editing software for their store sites.

EZTrader has received some (pretty well - deserved) criticism in the past for having an old - fashioned platform, but during recent years the platform has been updated with a lot of modern and highly useful features that can be used to enhance the trading experience.

In the past, many employers used good old - fashioned punch clocks.

uBinary is a superb broker for binary options traders of all sorts, especially those looking for a better experience than they are used to with their old brokerage.

Chances are that this is what most of our grandfather's use or still use to shave their faces, but now many savvy men are starting to turn back the clock and picking up an old - school safety razor for themselves — and if you're smart, you'd do well to join them.

Investing in pieces of companies through the stock market as well as wholly owned subsidiaries using value investment methods; Buying old economy industries; Purchasing with the intention to keep not trade; Focusing on durable competitive advantages; Centralizing capital and reallocating to highest and best use; Being paid (with float) to hold capital to invest

Although there are lots of different link building strategies that are way more effective, lots of people still use good old link requests to get new backlinks.

As the old TV ads used to say, «an educated consumer is our best customer.»

On more reflection and using a good old hockey anology — Ottawa Labour Council 1 Canadian Taxpayers Federation 0

Instead, I use good old Google Sheets and MS Excel.

For now sticking to my sandalwood Taylor of Old Bond Street soap though (next to the Oscar shaving cream that I sometimes use as well).

In the old terms of service, app developers would not only get the data from the profiles of those using the apps, but from all of their friends as well.

He angered Jews by allowing wider use of the old, Tridentine liturgy, which includes a Good Friday plea that they be «delivered from their darkness» and also by lifing the excommunication of Holocaust - denying Bishop Richard Williamson.

Just because we use the same old traditional words while spreading hate and fear, it doesn't mean the content is good.

Also wanting some kind of credit for the good, yet having no guts to take blame for the evil and wrong is a tactic that is used by 3 - year olds.

are people so simple they crave the misguided beliefs of others to feel better about themselves or are we triing to understand the lunacy of our citizens to believe something as pathic as a 3000 year old IDEA in order to act properly when voting in those who will run this country for the next 4 years a.k.a. voting in one who using rational thinking and logic to make choices!

Old people are often stereotyped as not knowing how to use new technology, but 73 - year old artist Tatsuo Horiuchi knows how to use Excel Spreadsheets better than pretty much anyone because, yes, this is an Excel spreadsheet and it is, yes, the world's most beautiful spreadsheetOld people are often stereotyped as not knowing how to use new technology, but 73 - year old artist Tatsuo Horiuchi knows how to use Excel Spreadsheets better than pretty much anyone because, yes, this is an Excel spreadsheet and it is, yes, the world's most beautiful spreadsheetold artist Tatsuo Horiuchi knows how to use Excel Spreadsheets better than pretty much anyone because, yes, this is an Excel spreadsheet and it is, yes, the world's most beautiful spreadsheet...

I was not talking religion I very specifically used the word compassion, yet you feel you have to make you point vilifying someone's belief, gosh that is getting old with you... you can't even celebrate the fact that here is an example of a good deed.

There are a few books that are appropriate for kids to use for learning to read, but most of them are just good old read - alouds.

The word doctrine is therefore being used in a way that is flexible enough to accommodate the variety of biblical teaching on these and other subjects as well as the factor of development in some themes as we move from the Old Testament into the New Testament.

Well Bob, let me try to be brief... the old testament is the history of the nascient people of Israel, and tells the story of the hammering process God used to mold them into His people... They frequently adopted the gods of pagans and idol worshippers, and the OT describes how God so wanted them to be His people... So many of the old testament prophecies actually point to a coming Messiah.

So I say use our brains, pray and have some good old common sense which God gave us.http: / / www.aei.org/publication/a-nation-of-givers /

In lieu of spending the next 10 years becoming a fluent Hebrew - speaking Old Testament scholar yourself, I would suggest using some good ol' common sense.

A politics of using immigration to increase the ranks of the low - skilled, and then reducing the programs they will depend on when they are old and unable to do physical labor, might seem like good business to the affluent.

«I've learned so much in this course, and have used my newly learned skills to interpret some of my old dreams which have stuck in my head (for good reason, I'm assuming).

If one is to use the old testament as proof that gayness is bad, then one can use the old testament to show that slaveness is good.

But well known to some as the seasoned British poet and satirist, ten years older than Astrue, whose poems will break your heart in one line and chill you to the marrow in the next, and whose books Astrue used to keep on his nightstand.

This is an infinite which expresses itself in a narrative vision, not a predetermined narrative nor one which intends to include only a particular kind of people or a particular reality, but a story which is much more open than the old story used to be — a story, indeed, with many strands rather than with one, and a story which is not going to any predetermined place but which is constantly open to the best possibility that is relevant for it.

Rock formations have also been dated to be billions of years old in other parts of the world as well, of course, using those same radiometric dating methods.

-- somehow meteorites are used as confirming evidence the earth is 4.54 billion yrs old because evidence on earth can not be confirmed independently, so let's move to «indisputable» circular reasoning and say well if this meteorite is 4.54 billion years old then the earth must also be 4.54 billion years old, since the machine's measurements match.