Sentences with phrase «much purpose today»

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Carmakers» ultimate objective, Lanctot said, is to build a database of consumer preferences that could be aggregated and sold to outside vendors for marketing purposes, much like Google (googl) and Facebook (fb) do today.

Christianity is a rather simple thought virus (meme) by today's standards, the USA government uses much more complex thought viruses today, so do large corporations for marketing purposes (simply because on 75 % of the people they WORK).

Now we hear much about «canonical» criticism, whose purpose is to see why and how the given material has been used to establish a series of «authorized» or «canonical» books which the Christian Church has accepted as constituting the Bible as we know it today.

But it has another purpose, too: to make sure you start on your science career with your eyes wide open, and with an awareness of the realities of today's job market, so you can evaluate the risks and decide how much risk you are willing to take on.

But as Charles Barone of Democrats for Education Reform notes today, the letter doesn't actually mean much of anything, largely because Duncan isn't requesting those states — including the most - egregious offenders, Louisiana, South Dakota, and Indiana (the last of which should know better)-- to revise how they calculate graduation rates for accountability purposes, or to make graduation rates a more - important factor in their accountability indexes.

Interesting point in a story in today's NY Times about «purpose built devices» which seem to have the upper hand but become irrelevant much more quickly.

As you would imagine, this is a recipe for disaster - which is pretty much what's been going on since hedge funds have mutated from their original purpose (to hedge against down markets), and have proliferated to the point of being the world - eating monsters of today (credit default swaps debacle version 3.0).

Much of peer review today is manufactured for the purpose of political argument; not scientific argument.

One of the drawbacks of today's «information society» is that so much of the information is pure crud — flashy, perhaps, attention - grabbing by design, but ultimately completely worthless for just about any useful purpose.

The purpose of the project is to «engage in research to develop technologies that foster the development of a global energy system where greenhouse emissions are much lower than today.»

«The looming question in the case was not so much the outcome but the Court's rationale... Today, the Court took that very signifiant step, holding that «when public employees make statements pursuant to their official duties, the employees are not speaking as citizens for First Amendment purposes, and the Constitution does not insulate their communications from employer discipline.»