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And what happens then is not that our consciousness contracts, it expands, so that those three days in Paris seem to be more full of consciousness and experience than all the months of being a walking, talking, faculty meeting-attending zombie back home.
There are no contracts, no written contracts.
Now you think, "Close hand," and a little section of your chest contracts.
You think, "Bend elbow," a different section contracts.
These are the renting contracts, the package leaflet of the medicines.
So for instance, today, in Ghana, courageous reformers from civil society, Parliament and government, have forged a coalition for transparent contracts in the oil sector, and, galvanized by this, reformers in Parliament are now investigating dubious contracts.
When the agonist contracts upon electrical activation, it stretches the antagonist.
When it's not, it contracts.
And she was offered contracts as a model, at which point she teased me, when she said, "You know, I might have had a better chance as a model if you'd made me six feet one."
I think cyber is a threat in three ways: One way, and probably the most common way that people have heard about it, is due to the theft of intellectual property, so basically, foreign countries going in, stealing companies' secrets, and then providing that information to state-owned enterprises or companies connected to the government to help them leapfrog technology or to gain business intelligence that's then used to win contracts overseas.
In 1983, the National Basketball Association signed a groundbreaking agreement making players partners in the league, entitled to shares of ticket revenues and television contracts.
This alternative was conveniently lobbied by big building companies, because it meant 42 million dollars in contracts, and was also politically preferred, because it required no land expropriation.
And men lure young girls into sex trafficking situations with promises of modeling contracts, cell phones.
As epidermal cells divide to reform the outer layer of skin, the dermis contracts to close the wound.
The brighter the light is, the more your pupil contracts.
And only after they've maximized their utility do they then decide it's important to provide support to other social contracts.
They did it by focusing on the things that matter to their business, like wasting less energy and water in their manufacturing processes; like making sure the CEO contracts had the CEOs incentivized for the long-term results of the company and the communities they served, not just quarterly results; or building a first class culture that would have higher employee loyalty, retention and productivity.
As the bladder gets full, the detrusor contracts.
The LES contracts, squeezing the stomach entrance and creating a high pressure zone that prevents digestive acids from seeping out.
Over coming years, they're going to conduct our audits, and they're going to read boilerplate from legal contracts.
One of them is that you can build smart contracts.
We started to place our trust into black box systems of authority, things like legal contracts and regulation and insurance, and less trust directly in other people.
Blockchains allow us to write code, binding contracts, between individuals and then guarantee that those contracts will bear out without a third party enforcer.
But you use it every day, so I think we're sort of facing the same John Sculley idea of technology should either be invisible or beautiful, and blockchain is kind of neither of those things right now, so it's better suited for either really early adopters who kind of get it and can tinker around or for finding those best use cases like identity or asset tracking or smart contracts that can be used at that level of an enterprise or government.
A-listers, as we all know, can make demands in their contracts, particularly the ones that work on the biggest Hollywood films.
TIME Magazine calls it, right there on the screen, "The teeny tiny little print in contracts that keeps sexual harassment claims unheard."
Because of the commercial contracts that we sign with ministries of health, these networks are 100 percent sustainable and scalable.
Here you see a completed Peano-HASEL actuator and how it expands and contracts when voltage is applied.
We can also place a few such muscle fibers next to each other to create something that looks even more like a muscle that also contracts and expands in cross section.
To understand the roots of muscle fatigue, it helps to know how a muscle contracts in response to a signal from a nerve.
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