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The International Handbook on Innovation
... whose research made possible medical transplant technologies, has written
that scientists interested in important discoveries require important problems. “
Dull or piffling problems”, he says, “yield dull or piffling answers” (Medawar, 1979
, p.
Larisa V. Shavinina, 2003
And at the end of the day, Billy just might get to save the world—or go down trying. From the Hardcover edition.
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Harrap's essential English Dictionary
piffle 716 pillar box piffle /'pifal/ noun (uncount; informal, derogatory) You can call
something that someone has said or written piffle if you think it is nonsense or
rubbish: He talks a lot of piffle, [same as rot] piffling /'piflin/ adjective (informal, ...
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Law and Disorder: Confessions of a Pupil Barrister
'It must be a great comedown, OldSmoothie, to have had to come to Willesden
and fight with the baby Bar on such a piffling case as this one.' I don't know
whether OldSmoothie had deliberately provoked such a remark but I wouldn't put
it past ...
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Macromedia Studio MX 2004: Training from the Source
Piffling. 5) To see the other two screens, click the keyframe in Frame 2 in the
timeline, and then click the keyframe in Frame 3. Fach time you click a different
keyframe, you see a different screen. 240 Recognizing the dangers traditional
farming ...
Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell, 2004
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The Audience in Everyday Life: Living in a Media World
They are an activity that was made possible only by Internet communication, and
by the particularly collaborative, female style of groups like DQMW-L. A Sacred
Place In reflecting on their community, DQMW listers. Piffling. a. Gytor-Quilt*. /I.
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Medieval Texts & Contemporary Readers
piffling. shift. wmss. in. ths. Iropt. and. mast. overtly. rarrcfitive. of. these.
rereadings. In what seems a literary retraction, Virgil tells the story of Manto and
the founding of Mantua, his own birthplace, in terms that expressly deny the
version of the ...
Laurie Finke, Martin B. Shichtman, 1987
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The Logical Trader: Applying a Method to the Madness
The daily pivot range must engulf the high or the low made in the first hour. • At
the end of the first hour, the market must have made an A up or an A down. •
Further, at the end of the first hour, the. Piffling. II. Together;. ACD. ana. Pivot.
Ranges. "i.
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Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations: A Collection ...
Dull or piffling problems yield dull of piffling answers. It is not enough that a
problem should be “interesting” – almost any problem is interesting if it is studied
in sufficient depth.... No, the problem must be such that it matters what the answer
is ...
Carl C. Gaither, Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither, 2012
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The Image of Aristocracy: In Britain, 1000-1300
A king of Glamorgan or Gwynedd would seem piffling by comparison. The
English and Normans undoubtedly considered the Welsh claims to kingship
piffling. Geoffrey Gaimar, who composed his French Estoire des Engles (History
of the ...
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Show us the TPP
Or the upcoming Shenhua coal mine should they be in the slightest discomfitted by silly little things like citizens objecting or piffling sovereignty. «Crikey, 七月 15»
Apprenticeship could be real key to Skill India's success
In India, the number is a piffling 280,000. This can change. Last year, lawmakers passed the Apprenticeship (Amendment) Bill, 2014, which ... «Hindustan Times, 七月 15»
Here's Everything You Need To Know About Sandra Bland
Yes, it is, and especially when you look at the many high profile cases of black men in particular being killed by police for a relatively piffling ... «The Debrief, 七月 15»
Should power and water increase next?
First, cheap power and water, in tandem with piffling prices for petrol and diesel, mean we use up more oil than necessary. This is a resource ... «The National, 七月 15»
2015 Ford Mustang GT 5.0 Convertible
The ventilated leather seats are not only comfy, but their cooling effect can actually be felt- not like the piffling stream of air you feel on seats in ... «Carpages.ca, 七月 15»
Cut-throat cloud pricing not as cut-throat as you'd think
But 451 Research's Cloud Price Index shows that in reality the cost of running a typical webserver has dropped a piffling 2.25 per cent since ... «The Register, 七月 15»
Behold the rise of the joke candidate, from Andy Burnham to Donald …
... he had been joking. There are piffling little political gags like Burnham, of course, and then there are side-splittingly, ribcage-shattereringly, ... «The Independent, 七月 15»
Volkswagen Passat: car review
... be a plug-in petrol-electric hybrid and a super-efficient Bluemotion version which will do 78mpg and emit a piffling 95g/km of CO² emissions. «The Guardian, 七月 15»
The Pedant: Any grammar quiz will be a hoary collection of peeves
Scoring 28 out of 28 in a piffling test of someone else's linguistic superstitions is as nothing to me. Whenever I see a grammar quiz online I have ... «The Times, 七月 15»
Gramofon review: The Spotify streamer to own
For this piffling amount of money you're getting a Wi-Fi music streamer that's primarily designed to stream Spotify tracks over a Wi-Fi connection ... «Alphr, 七月 15»
