In a victory for all of us who find the idea of trying to trademark generic-sounding terms tedious — and a victory, too, for those who actually work in the world of social enterprise — Salesforce.com has announced that it has withdrawn its applications to trademark the term "social enterprise," originally filed earlier this year in the U.S., UK, Australia and Jamaica.
And despite his passion for the material, his coldly academic prose is as tedious as a term paper.
It explains lower Chinese prices largely in terms of a tedious accumulation of minor cost disadvantages borne by Indian industry (see chart).
However, the inclusion of interaction terms is a tedious process.
Transdermal drug delivery experiments are often tedious and time consuming in terms of sampling, labor, etc.
However, the procedures for collecting anthropometric data are tedious, complicated and costly in terms of labor, time and financial resources.
This is true if one restricts oneself to the expansion to order Ω0 i.e. the linear-noise approximation; this is commonly the case found in the literature since the algebra becomes tedious if one considers more terms.
There is, of course, plenty of urgent discussion going on at the moment about how to better communicate the climate change message following the events of recent months, such as the hacked/stolen/leaked/[for the purposes of avoiding a tedious debate, insert your own term] UEA emails, which have caused public confidence in climate science to nose dive.
"It's very tedious work in the long term to change things.
The bad news is, the trend occasionally throws up (and I use that term advisedly) derivative, tedious, plodding fare like "Rosemary's Baby," the NBC remake that airs Sunday and provides an object lesson in how to waste a good premise and a decent cast.
