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And as we were preparing to come back from the burial, the cars stopped at the bathroom to let folks take care of themselves before the long ride back to the city.
In the process of preparing this, we looked at how some other cultures around the world deal with this period of time, because here in the Western world, less than 50 percent of us live near our family members, which I think is part of why this is such a tough period.
DM: For me, my mother was preparing [me] when I was a child to become a doctor, but I really didn't want to.
The babies in the United States are getting a lot better, babies in Japan are getting a lot worse, but both of those groups of babies are preparing for exactly the language that they are going to learn.
In preparing for TED, I discovered this diary page in an old journal.
I believe that when you train your employees to be risk averse, then you're preparing your whole company to be reward challenged.
It's almost like we've been preparing for it our whole lives.
They've actually built two cities already in China and are preparing the third.
And my friend was preparing this big bowl, and I said, "What is it?"
And the business organizations thought we were onto something in terms of a way of preparing children much better for real-life work today.
In this context, when you don't know if the potential enemy is preparing for defense or attack, and if the weapons give an advantage to attacking, then this environment is most likely to spark a conflict.
We are now preparing to fight quantum with quantum.
They're preparing themselves for the kind of world they will encounter on the other side of the womb.
While I was preparing my dog for the run, a man was finishing drinking at a bar, picked up his car keys, got into a car and headed south, or wherever he was.
That's the average amount of time the American family spends preparing, eating and cleaning up after meals per day.
The first stage was completed at home, which consisted of marinating the chicken, grilling the chicken, amassing it and preparing it to be transported to the lab.
We've gotten good at predicting and preparing for storms before they take innocent lives and cause irreversible damage, but we still can't do that with water, and here's why.
When time horizons are long and nebulous, as they typically are in youth, people are constantly preparing, trying to soak up all the information they possibly can, taking risks, exploring.
Shukran! (Applause) What I'm going to do is to just give a few notes, and this is from a book I'm preparing called "Letters to a Young Scientist."
We were thrilled to have that kind of audience, and just a bit terrified that we hadn't finished preparing the class yet.
While I was preparing to write my student note for the Yale Law Journal on mechanical restraints, I consulted an eminent law professor who was also a psychiatrist, and said surely he would agree that restraints must be degrading, painful and frightening.
I'm looking for a third way: I'm preparing to get Alzheimer's disease.
So I'm preparing to get Alzheimer's disease.
But also, it gave the Chinese a national public sphere for people to, it's like a training of their citizenship, preparing for future democracy.
And we've been flying into disaster areas since this past January, setting up software, training residents and licensing the software to areas that are preparing for disasters.
Death is something that we're often discouraged to talk about, or even think about, but I've realized that preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do.
Companies make their expensive executives spend ages carefully preparing forecasts and budgets which are obsolete or need changing before they can be published.
We should be preparing at every scale and at every opportunity.
Second, preparing for heat and drought.
Because we know that the fathers are even leaving with this one thought: What type of woman am I preparing to put in the world?
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