dead-ends

• “All of the engine design programs-such as COBRA, STME-were also dead-ends.”

  NASA Watch: June 2009 Archives

• “But watching trolls like Ed tie themselves up in knots to get out of their rhetorical and logical dead-ends is one of the great pleasures of this blog!”

  Matthew Yglesias » Unemployment Forever

• “He began his search in 1907, but encountered countless setbacks and dead-ends before he finally, uncovered the long-lost crypt.”

  The Murder of King Tut by James Patterson & Martin Dugard: Book summary

• “Subtract a few who are dead-ends — such as John McCain, who faces a tough primary in Arizona — and that leaves the White House zeroing in on several others, including Dick Lugar, Judd Gregg and Lisa Murkowski and a couple of newcomers: Scott Brown and George LeMieux.”

  Obama Targeting (FORMER) Immigration-Enthusiast GOP Senators–But They’re Feeling The Heat

• “Both proved dead-ends: his aspiration to star in football ended with an injury and "then I was back to being nobody again"; his hopes to star as a * Green Beret in Vietnam* dissolved after he fell out of a”

  Heroes or Villains?

• “For example, not all artworks can be viewed in high-quality detail--Google, and the museums, have decided for you--and as not all rooms in the museums have been mapped, users can sometimes run into dead-ends, unable to move forward into the next gallery.”

  The Huffington Post: Google Art Project Aims To Redefine Museum Experience--But Has Some Rough Edges

• “So after a fortnight's search, waylaid by whispers, clouded memories and dead-ends, we have photographic proof of King Olav at Selhurst Park.”

  The Guardian: King Olav, Crystal Palace, Erik Thorstvedt and the eviction of Cromer | The Knowledge

• “Part of writing this book felt like detective work 101, just following every lead, most of them being dead-ends since I'm dragging up a case that was closed a half a century ago.”

  A Conversation with Tom Reiss

• “However, on the specific question of how many published studies should be replicated, an answer other than “100%” is quite defensible: some published experiments are dead-ends (research questions that should not be pursued further), and some are just bad experiments (experimental designs that in hindsight were deeply flawed).”

  AGU Day 3 part B: Data Provenance and Open Science | Serendipity

• “To head off this malaise Gates urged the cadets to take career risks, taking assignments that in the past might have been seen by their peers as career dead-ends.”

  The Washington Post: In one of final addresses to Army, Gates describes vision for military's future

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