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But there are other things that people believe that are significant, like the efficacy of homeopathy, or that evolution is just, you know, sort of a crazy idea by scientists without any legs, or, you know, evolution, all that sort of thing, or global warming.
And that's not just about me, that's about so many other Michiganders, U.S. citizens, who don't understand why what they are is so much more significant than who they are.
It's not a new product or a new process but a new way to organize work, and the most significant management innovation to come out of India, invented by the Indian offshoring industry is what we call the global delivery model.
That has significant implications for us.
You can see that that peak happens a couple of years later in boys relative to girls, and that's probably because boys go through puberty a couple of years later than girls on average, and then during adolescence, there's a significant decline in gray matter volume in prefrontal cortex.
In other words, everything you need to do in order to remember the rule and apply it seems to be fully developed by mid-adolescence, whereas in contrast, if you look at the last two gray bars, there's still a significant improvement in the director condition between mid-adolescence and adulthood, and what this means is that the ability to take into account someone else's perspective in order to guide ongoing behavior, which is something, by the way, that we do in everyday life all the time, is still developing in mid-to-late adolescence.
It may not be pushing the boat out too far to suggest that many teachers are losing significant life expectancy by teaching in environments like that day after day.
When you're in the low-power pose condition, only 60 percent, and that's a whopping significant difference.
I believe that we are at the start of a collaborative revolution that will be as significant as the Industrial Revolution.
We cannot take the information from past trials and put them together to form statistically significant samples.
So they were asking questions that were significant to expert scientists.
And this leads me to the third, and in my view, the most significant shift in development: open governance.
Today, I'm inspired by these changes, and I'm excited that at the World Bank, we are embracing these new directions, a significant departure from my work in Uganda 20 years ago.
Very significant mark.
Voice: I think you got your birthday wish.MT: And that actually leaves me with the last, and most important card of all: the one with this very significant mark on it.
Ladies and gentlemen, and more importantly, Mo Bros and Mo Sistas — (Laughter) — for the next 17 minutes, I'm going to share with you my Movember journey, and how, through that journey, we've redefined charity, we're redefining the way prostate cancer researchers are working together throughout the world, and I hope, through that process, that I inspire you to create something significant in your life, something significant that will go on and make this world a better place.
It's about each person coming to this platform, embracing it in their own way, and being significant in their own life.
It creates economies of scale, significant and long-term resource investment, the expertise of many different kinds of people and different kinds of minds, and for individuals, consumers, it's bringing the standards, rules and recourse that we really want as consumers, and this is kind of bound up in a brand promise, and the companies are providing this on a platform for participation.
Because he had just invested a significant amount of money in my college education.
I got my first piece of significant fan mail, where this kid loved Monkey Boy so much that he wanted to have a Monkey Boy birthday cake.
The high degree of interconnectivity of the top players in the core could pose a significant systemic risk to the global economy.
What you find is nine countries around the world that have significant native populations which speak both futureless and futured languages.
CA: But that was a significant percentage of the revenue of the company at that time.
EM: Well, we've made significant advances in the technology of the airframe, the engines, the electronics and the launch operation.
When Al Gore was Vice President, his team had an idea for deregulating a significant portion of the telecommunications industry.
And so it is especially significant that the university I now lead, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, UMBC, was founded the very year I went to jail with Dr. King, in 1963.
And what is significant about the program is that we learned a number of things.
What was significant was that the faculty member was observing every student to understand who was really involved and who was not and was saying, "Let me see how I can work with them.
Now hours per person are shrinking, first because of the retirement of the baby boomers, and second because there's been a very significant dropping out of the labor force of prime age adult males who are in the bottom half of the educational distribution.
James Comer says that no significant learning can occur without a significant relationship.
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