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Those two economies require very different skills, and as it happens, women have been much better at acquiring the new set of skills than men have been.
And you'll see on the vertical your skill at acquiring a second language.
In short, they are acquiring the status that they had a million years ago, 10,000 years ago, 100,000 years ago.
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Just keep in mind that acquiring preemptive knowledge about emerging technologies is the best way to ensure that we have a say in the making of our future.
But also, more recently, we started acquiring video games, and that's where all hell broke loose in a really interesting way.
But we are acquiring our critical dimension also in design, so maybe one day we'll be able to acquire also the guns.
The reason it's different is that, just in the past few years, our machines have started demonstrating skills they have never, ever had before: understanding, speaking, hearing, seeing, answering, writing, and they're still acquiring new skills.
Normally, acquiring moral behavior is simply part of growing up, like learning to speak.
He dreamt of acquiring land, riches and power through military conquest.
And I guess it won't surprise you to learn that we start acquiring that right combination right at birth.
Think about the changes that occur in the brain of a child through the course of acquiring their movement behavior abilities in general.
Or acquiring their native language abilities.
Even I knew that the task of going out and acquiring Uzis (for murder) is a task that should never come before borrowing someones car for the day.
I like this movie and have watched my copy twice since acquiring it a few weeks ago.
Scarlett ages gracefully, acquiring wisdom beyond her years in the end.
Among the changes, Blade is now most importantly half vampire, therefore acquiring "all of their strengths, but none of their weaknesses."
The structure of the movie fits that description: a brief history of man as beast, until we become truly man by mastering weapons and acquiring reason, then a long sequence about man (the rope, as it were), and then a brief glimpse of the overman.
DreamWorks whether wanted to save money on acquiring voice talent, or really wanted to create an animated episode of National Geographic; either way, they succeeded in delivering a rather bland and boring movie.
TCM came through by acquiring this wonderful, silent, comedy/drama for television.
In viewing TBS's newest attempt at infusing their comedic stature into an original series, "10 Items or Less" shows that perhaps Mr. Turner should stick with acquiring sitcoms and cartoons as the foundation for the network's motto of being 'Very Funny'.
The scant few teenagers who went to see "976-EVIL" in 1989 probably had no idea who Sandy Dennis was (just as the kids who first saw "Carrie" didn't know who Piper Laurie was), but the veteran actress manages to bring a few minutes of class to an otherwise lousy, fifth-rate screamer about a nerdy high school kid acquiring demonic powers from a satanic phone number.
According to a recent survey, a majority of Russians believes that acquiring wealth requires criminal activity and political connections.
Faced with a country whose leader is bent on acquiring nuclear weapons, the EU’s leaders are simply dithering, fearing that the fire next door in Iraq could somehow spread.
And, if Iran succeeds in acquiring long-range ballistic missiles, the security threat will become global.
In science, uncertainty is a powerful incentive for acquiring knowledge; indeed, it is the primary motivation for research, which is inherently uncertain.
Surpluses are used to pay off debt, and the deficits are financed by acquiring debt, leaving the debt-GDP ratio constant over the cycle.
Companies exhibit similar behavior when it comes to acquiring innovative technologies, adhering to ineffective, restrictive processes, despite an ostensibly obvious alternative: the efficient systems that manufacturers use to secure inputs for production.
But aggressive follow-up therapy will be required to prevent the remaining Al Qaeda cells from metastasizing by acquiring more adherents who believe in violence to achieve the 'purification' and empowerment of Islam.
With limited, if any, hard-currency (US dollar or gold) reserves on hand, and little prospect for acquiring dollars through export earnings, European economies attempted to shrink their current-account deficits by compressing imports from other (mostly) European countries.
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