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  • Yes, because of the legendary efficiency of your non-ability management (hired and promoted on the basis of anything but efficency), there is a Global Warming fighting surplus of prune mush.

    Victory Coffee - (04/07/08) 2008

  • I posted a few weeks ago about the quantifiable effects of multi-tasking (short answer: they're not good) and bemoaned my non-ability to do one task at a time.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Amber 2007

  • Jason: That is were I faced my giant, big, overwhelming fear of comedy - of being judged for my ability - or non-ability - to do that.

    Zorianna Kit: Interview: Actor Jason Ritter on his career, his insecurities and life with & without his father. 2009

  • I posted a few weeks ago about the quantifiable effects of multi-tasking (short answer: they're not good) and bemoaned my non-ability to do one task at a time.

    Flowers? What flowers? Anne-Marie 2007

  • But I just couldn't get over the caramel issues and my non-ability to read.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Sara 2007

  • But I just couldn't get over the caramel issues and my non-ability to read.

    Failure is not an option, and cursing is required : Milk Chocolate and Caramel Tart Sara 2007

  • Most young writers undergo the same first agonies of composition: the vainly sought simile, the sentence that will not turn nicely, the tiresome word that crops up too often, yet for which there seems no adequate substitute; the sudden lack of ideas, or the non-ability to clothe those one has in suitable language.

    The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story Angela Brazil 1907

  • You see their non-ability to count up the time I have spent on earth obliges them to accept me at my own valuation!

    The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance Marie Corelli 1889

  • Their removal produced severe problems with the software, especially occassional logouts and the non-ability to comment on tickets.

    phpBB.com IPB_Refugee 2010

  • Their removal produced severe problems with the software, especially occassional logouts and the non-ability to comment on tickets.

    phpBB.com IPB_Refugee 2010

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