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  • EDITED: The "Unproductive" rating on your post was for the offensive suggestion that appealing to racism was the republicans "only hope."

    Happy Hour Roundup 2009

  • Comments I consider to be ungrounded racist conjecture I am happy to rate as "Unproductive"

    Happy Hour Roundup 2009

  • I rated it "Unproductive" because Hastert's sexual orientation isn't the issue.

    NY-26: Reynolds Interview Raises Fresh Questions 2009

  • Unproductive behavior includes a research focus on lucrative copycat drugs or lifestyle drugs at the expense of drugs that would be more socially useful but not as profitable.

    Robert Naiman: Brazil Should Lead on Access to Essential Medicines Robert Naiman 2010

  • Unproductive behavior includes a research focus on lucrative copycat drugs or lifestyle drugs at the expense of drugs that would be more socially useful but not as profitable.

    Robert Naiman: Brazil Should Lead on Access to Essential Medicines Robert Naiman 2010

  • Unproductive behavior includes a research focus on lucrative copycat drugs or lifestyle drugs at the expense of drugs that would be more socially useful but not as profitable.

    Robert Naiman: Brazil Should Lead on Access to Essential Medicines Robert Naiman 2010

  • Read More from Careers How to Save an Unproductive Day in 25 Minutes Finding Focus And Avoiding Distraction How to Negotiate Your Salary Like an FBI Agent Of course, once you realize that you probably won't succeed, or that success isn't worth the unhappiness your project is causing you, it shouldn't matter what the sunk costs are.

    Quit: Do It Now Heidi Grant Halvorson 2012

  • Unproductive meetings, products that break, pollution, inequity, even war and poverty are the symptoms of poor design, design that is also usually devoid of social innovation.

    Jeffrey Hollender: What the World Needs Now: Social Innovation Jeffrey Hollender 2011

  • Unproductive citizens of the welfare state, whom Ms. Rand dubbed "parasites," "looters" and "moochers," lobbied politicians to regulate businesses, confiscate wealth and destroy productivity.

    Call It 'Atlas Snubbed' Al Lewis 2011

  • Unproductive behavior includes a research focus on lucrative copycat drugs or lifestyle drugs at the expense of drugs that would be more socially useful but not as profitable.

    Robert Naiman: Brazil Should Lead on Access to Essential Medicines Robert Naiman 2010

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