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Typically, there's a general contractor who is responsible for coordinating the efforts of all the different contractors: an architect to draw the plans, an earth-moving company to dig the foundation, a plumber, a carpenter and so on.

So why doesn't the general contractor pick just one company to do all the work, like, say, the architect?

The general contractor selects experts because it takes years to learn and master how to do each of the tasks it takes to build a house or renovate a kitchen, some of them requiring special training.

A little over 100 years ago, in 1915, Einstein published his theory of general relativity, which is sort of a strange name, but it's a theory that explains gravity.

While a patient is under general anesthesia, electrodes deliver a series of mild electrical pulses to the brain.

And we tend to fall in love with somebody from the same socioeconomic background, the same general level of intelligence, of good looks, the same religious values.

Ten years after the original, miraculous year that I described, Einstein was putting together the pieces of his theory of general relativity, his greatest achievement.

So he's laying down the theoretical foundation for the laser beam, and then, while he's doing that, he moves back to general relativity, and he's refreshed.

In the 2013 general elections in Pakistan and the local elections in 2015, there were less than 100 women voters in Dir.

I'm proud to tell you that this year, during the general elections, there were 93,000 women voters in Dir.

I have three kind of general things I would like to say, three consequences of this.

To find out, I spent two and a half years observing dozens of residents and surgeons doing traditional and robotic surgery, interviewing them and in general hanging out with the residents as they tried to learn.

These "why" questions, particularly in genetics and the study of history in general, are always the big ones, the ones that are tough to answer.

Now, if we consider a different ray of light, one going off like this, we now need to take into account what Einstein predicted when he developed general relativity.

In general, seek out quiet spaces, especially on the weekend or when you're on vacation.

In general, noise reduction at the source makes the most sense, so whenever you're looking to buy a new car, air-conditioning unit, blender, you name it, make low noise a priority.

Because if our goal is to seek a deeper understanding of the world, our general lack of moral diversity here is going to make it harder.

percent of the general fund towards nutrition services.

South Africa in general, but the Cradle of Humankind in particular, contains numerous sites where hundreds of thousands of fossils have been found.

Invented in the early 20th century by Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach, the Rorschach Test is actually less about the specific things we see, and more about our general approach to perception.

Well, the argument in "The Blank Slate" was that elite art and criticism in the 20th century, although not the arts in general, have disdained beauty, pleasure, clarity, insight and style.

And then when he won the general election, he stunned the nation even more by appointing each of these three rivals into his Cabinet.

Not as great a general as Napoleon, not as great a statesman as Frederick the Great."

I was very lucky that, when I worked for Oxfam and other big charities, I could read lots of big reports on what influenced politicians and businesses and the general public, what campaigns worked really well, which ones didn't.

Are there any general conclusions that arise?

That's one general theme.

A second general theme is that there are many, often subtle environmental factors that make some societies more fragile than others.

So, that's one general conclusion about why societies make bad decisions: conflicts of interest.

So the truth in general is that the kinds of controversies that you would probably think we have within the Wikipedia community are not really controversies at all.

One small part of this E8 shape can be used to describe the curved space-time of Einstein's general relativity, explaining gravity.

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