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organ
(redirected from vestigial organ)

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Hazlett, who served as chief economist at the Federal Communications Commission in the early '90s, calls over-the-air TV broadcasts "a vestigial organ that is massively costly to the country not to be using for things like mobile phones and wireless Internet.
A mandatory digital broadcast tuner would be a costly vestigial organ in the sets used by millions of American cable and satellite viewers.
Despite the earnest efforts of a competent supporting ensemble, all the other characters inhabiting the stage are like vestigial organs the playwright has stuck onto the body of the play to create a dramatic structure that simply doesn't work and isn't needed.
 
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