drive (something) into the ground

1. To manage or maintain something very poorly, resulting in its destruction, failure, or loss of functionality. If you would just remember to get your oil changed, you wouldn't keep driving your cars into the ground. This is the fourth time he's walked away from a company he helped drive into the ground. How could they put that imbecile Tony in charge? He's going to run this department straight into the ground!

2. To continue to discuss or address some issue or topic that is no longer of any use or relevance; to belabor something. We've all moved on from that problem, so there's no use driving it into the ground. It was enough for him to chide me for the mistake once, but he drove it into the ground again and again over the next few weeks. I'm sorry if I'm driving this issue into the ground, but I just can't let her negligence go.

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Take a look at the drive wheel hub for oil leaks and loose or missing mounting bolts.

Clearing the way

Tasked with coming up with an emissions drive cycle and curious about the magnitude of a problem known as "cold start," they asked the EMT's inventors to drive the device on the dyno and report back.

Present at the creation: Dr. George Gelb and his colleagues created a device called the "Electro-Mechanical Transmission." you may know it better as "hybrid drive."

Finite Solutions Inc, 4769 Highland Park Drive, Slinger, WI, 53086-9441 tel: 262/644-0785 fax: 262/364-2537#

General manufacturing, engineering & maintenance

It is a romantic drive through fragrant vineyards and orchards that bloom near the sculptured cliffs of Niagara Gorge.

Where and how to hit the road: exciting driving experiences that take you out of cruise control

There is a common misconception that native Fibre Channel devices can outperform SCSI drives. The reality is that the type of external interface used by the drive does not change its ability to write or read data to tape.

Native Fibre Channel tape vs. Fibre Channel-to-SCSI converters

Prior to the introduction of the notebook-use disc drive, Panasonic will ship samples of the half-height (41.3-mm) desktop version in October and start volume production by January 2006.

Panasonic to Release New Blu-ray Disc Drives for PCs and Non-Cartridge Blu-ray Discs Next Spring; New Optical Disc Drives Support Single- and Dual-layer Blu-ray Discs, All Recordable DVDs and CDs

"The strength of Momentus 5400 Full Disk Encryption is the fact that it is hardware-based, performing all of the cryptographic functions within the drive," said Daniel Good, vice president, advanced market concepts, Seagate Technology.

ServGate becomes first UTM vendor to standardize integrated HDDS to Seagate's Full Disc Encryption technology

"Being able to save pictures on my drive has really paid off," said Schuetz.

Third Marine Aircraft Wing (Jan, 7, 2005): thumb drives save time, memories

We need a 4,000-hp shredder drive and are very price conscious.

Driving questions: selecting a shredder drive involves staying current with AC/DC differences

Knoedler's CMG drive consists of four three-phase AC motors that transmit power via a pinion shaft to a central gear with a hollow shaft and thrust bearing.

Extrusion

A hydraulic direct drive system consists of a sound insulated power unit (electric motor, pump, oil tank/filters and a control system) connected by flexible hoses and/or steel pipes to a high torque, low speed (variable) hydraulic motor (figure 1).

Impact of maximum rotor control on mixing

While backups are traditionally the mainstay of recapturing and restoring lost data, they are not foolproof for restoring failed drives; the last day's data is generally missing and the damaged portions of the drive that are faithfully being backed up are of no value when restored.

Averting disaster with redundant hardware

The price is easy, too: $150 for the drive and $30 for each tape,

Running out of storage space

Randall Schapiro, neurologist and director of the Fairview MS Center in Minneapolis, says "probably most people with MS can drive without much difficulty."

Is there driving after MS?