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• a  not producing or capable of producing
  elimination of high-cost or unproductive industries
• s  not producing desired results
  the talks between labor and management were unproductive

• Once they become unproductive, many of the animals are sold by their owners, mostly subsistence farmers, and marched off to slaughter houses.
• Vilsack suggested that second-generation biofuels like cellulosic ethanol manufactured from switchgrass could solve the problem, particularly if it were grown on unproductive .
• As Britain's top civil servant in Northern Ireland, he had been participating in exploratory and unproductive peace talks between Catholic and Protestant leaders in Belfast.

• productive

News & Articles

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• $77k for most unproductive lawmakers' gathering in Wash. state's history
  The Legislature's first overtime session this year was the most unproductive gathering of lawmakers in state history. That doesn't mean it didn't cost taxpayers.
  June 14, 2013 - KATU Portland
• $77k for most unproductive lawmakers' gathering in state's history
  The Legislature's first overtime session this year was the most unproductive gathering of lawmakers in state history. That doesn't mean it didn't cost taxpayers.
  June 14, 2013 - KOMO Seattle
• Special session tally: 30 days, 0 bills, $77,000
  The Legislature's first overtime session this year was the most unproductive gathering of lawmakers in state history. That doesn't mean it didn't cost taxpayers.
  June 14, 2013 - Seattle Times

Quotes

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• John McCain in Coon Rapids ECM Publishers
  Both Senator Obama and I promise we will end Washington's stagnant, unproductive partisanship,said McCain.
• Tiki Barber in Forbes
  It was a pretty pitiful performance all the way around,Barber said. "I'm shocked our running game could be this unproductive."
• Sarah Palin in AFP
  It is because I love Alaska this much, sir, that I feel it is my duty to avoid the unproductive, typical politics-as-usual lame duck session in one's last year in office,said Palin, who was the state's youngest governor and first female governor.