Thesaurus / inefficient
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Execs also believe that speed as well as fewer in-person meetings will remain as flying across the country when you know you can get something done over Zoom may be seen as inefficient and unnecessarily expensive now.
‘WE HAVE THE CAPABILITY’: HOW THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS HAS ACCELERATED ADVERTISING’S SHIFT TO AGILITYKRISTINA MONLLOSSEPTEMBER 7, 2020DIGIDAYThe IEA notes that the best technology available is more than twice as efficient as the average of what’s actually in use around the world, and three times better than the most inefficient products on the market.
AIR CONDITIONING TECHNOLOGY IS THE GREAT MISSED OPPORTUNITY IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGEJAMES TEMPLESEPTEMBER 1, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWUp until this capture, we’d placed our noose carpets along the riverbank in areas we hoped the owls would land, which was inefficient.
THE QUEST TO SNARE—AND SAVE—THE WORLD’S LARGEST OWLJONATHAN SLAGHTAUGUST 28, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEIt is economically inefficient to preserve jobs in companies that are unlikely to survive the structural changes of the fourth industrial revolution.
‘WE WILL DO THIS TOGETHER’: GERMANY WILL CONTINUE SUBSIDIZING WORKERS’ WAGES THROUGH THE END OF 2021DAVID MEYERAUGUST 26, 2020FORTUNEIn fact, in some ways, Xi Jinping himself was picked because of the party’s fear that, in the period after SARS, it was losing control of parts of society because it was seen as corrupt, as inefficient, as incompetent.
WILL COVID-19 SPARK A COLD WAR (OR WORSE) WITH CHINA? (EP. 414)STEPHEN J. DUBNERAPRIL 23, 2020FREAKONOMICSIn 1997, Ed Glaeser did his own analysis of rent control in New York City, trying to determine just how economically inefficient it was.
WHY RENT CONTROL DOESN’T WORK (EP. 373 REBROADCAST)STEPHEN J. DUBNERMARCH 12, 2020FREAKONOMICSThe use of grout is, therefore, a sign of inefficient workmanship, and should not be countenanced in good work.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 4, PART 3VARIOUSThey continued to be of some service to the community in the inefficient condition of the public police.
THE INFLUENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH GILDSFRANCIS AIDEN HIBBERTThe last governor was kind, but inefficient, and some months ago was sent to the West Indies, where he is officially buried.
IN AFRICAJOHN T. MCCUTCHEONWas our devotion paid to the wretched, inefficient, clumsy contrivance, which this new doctrine would make it?
KEY-NOTES OF AMERICAN LIBERTYVARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO INEFFICIENT
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