Under a Russian-US deal struck last month, Syria must render useless all production facilities and weapons-filling equipment by November, a process begun over the past several weeks.
The inexorable logic of G.D.P. growth thus encourages useless and pernicious production.
What's desperately needed is an updated and up-scaled version of the 1970s plan pioneered by Mike Cooley and the Lucas Aerospace shop stewards, to convert from the production of useless armaments to making socially useful products.
He created a full-length military coat, jodhpurs and other pieces beautiful to look at, if useless outside an "Anna Karenina" production.
Too bad about the production's useless, less political first half-hour, but the audience is seated cabaret-style and drinks are served (1 30).
The announcement showed that the oil industry does not know what to do with all the gas it is able to produce in shale fields, which were considered almost useless until a decade ago when new production techniques, including horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, were first employed in a major way.
Never the less, if a response surface analysis were used to optimize the process, a lot of useless runs should be scraped, production stopped, etcetera.
With arsenic forcing the production of largely useless telomerase in cell lines that simulate acute promyelocytic leukemia, the chromosomes in cancer cells fuse together, causing the cell death that helps fight the cancer.
I was useless as far as milk production was concerned, but my wife appreciated having another adult -- who didn't have to drive to work in the morning -- suffer frequent night awakenings with her while she half-consciously breastfed our premature, underweight twins.
One main reason: they feared they would end up paying for wartime production facilities that were useless in peacetime -- just as they had in World War I.
