LONDON — Nokia, the struggling world leader in mobile phones, said on Friday that it would discard its own cellphone operating system and begin using software made by Microsoft, in an alliance to shore up the halting efforts in smartphones of two market leaders.
A novel about a man who becomes obsessed with a former Holocaust denier because he believes it might help him turn his life around -- it's a project strewn with so many pitfalls, intellectual and moral, that most writers would nervously discard it and turn to something safer.
When I was a young cook I would look at a recipe and if it listed an ingredient that I didn't have or didn't like I would immediately discard it and move on.
I would totally discard it as a non-issue if it had not come from the foreign minister of the self-proclaimed leader of Europe [please be honest and admit] which also poses as America's foremost ally in Europe.
But no: It was brown butter, complete with all the not-quite-burnt particles that many people would discard, and it was delicious.
But recently the story has come under fire from a number of prominent economists, and some of them would like to discard it altogether.
"Originally, Amtrak said the Acela Express was supposed to travel between New York and Boston in 2 hours and 55 minutes, with further improvements in time," said Mr. Vranich, who was a member of the Congressionally appointed Amtrak Reform Council before resigning in July, asserting that Amtrak was a money pit and that the only effective reform would be to discard it.
Rather, if it continues to advance understanding of evolution, even when found wanting or in need of qualification, then it would be wasteful to discard it.
If systems biologists regard holism as simply the study of larger units, then it is simply a slogan, and it would be best to discard it before it creates divisions where none are necessary.
