"I'm confident that we can prove a lot of people who think we're a short-lived dead-end project wrong," Willgoose says.
Or, perhaps no one else in the lab would touch the dead-end project and you naively decided that taking on this train wreck of a project would please your advisor.
The quid-pro-quo of production ("labor for that which does not satisfy") and consumption ("that which is not bread") is in fact a dead-end project that only results in fatigue, disappointment, and despair.
Although ministers keep exclaiming that there is no more money for the greedy NHS, all over the service money is being lobbed at dead-end projects, new IT packages that will not work and expensive management consultants.
In my academic past, I had watched uneasily as colleagues were allowed to carry on with dead-end projects for years, all in the name of "academic freedom".
Dead-end projects, technical problems, difficult students, a lack of funding, reviewers who delay publications, competitors who scoop you, and personal hardships can eat away at enthusiasm over time, says Erwin Wagner, one of the vice-directors of the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) in Madrid.
But, by 1995, he found himself at a dead end with the project and left for the vice-presidency of his father's machine-tool company, in Michigan.
I was pretty sure this had to be a dead end – maybe a project Heller had worked on for a few days and abandoned, or maybe this was the wrong Joseph Heller altogether.
The most important thing to point out here is that the transcription proved to be a dead end in this project.
Although I contemplated leaving graduate school when my project hit a dead end, my thesis adviser and the graduate program director encouraged me to remain in school and try a different project.
As a graduate student in the department of biology, I did very well my first 2 years and passed my qualifiers, but my dissertation project was a dead end and my thesis advisor and I ended up not getting along.
