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While consumers are spending less on toilet paper, they remain fussy – in theory at least – when it comes to paper quality.

They feel much less pain in the process.

The least that can be concluded from this research is that companies need to think harder about managing teams.

Shoppers in the UK are spending less money on toilet paper to save money, research has shown.

Product transitions take much less time now than in the past.

One in 10 buyers rank toilet rolls made from recycled paper among their top considerations, highlighting how overall the environment is much less of a consideration for shoppers than product quality.

In a study of 120 teams of senior executives, he discovered that less than 10% of their supposed members agreed on who exactly was on the team.

Even if your personal reinvention is less drastic, we think there are lessons from her experience that apply.

But at least, she says, they can maximize the odds of success.

Mules have strong muscles like horses; but they eat less, can work longer, and are gentler, like donkeys.

A tour boat turned o v e r o f f t h e c o a s t o f Nicaragua, killing at least 13 people and leaving more passengers missing, official said.

Yet the cost we project for saving civilization would amount to less than $200 billion a year, 1/6 of current global military spending.

What kind of care facility old people live in may be less important than we think.

Today, when time zones have less and less meaning, there is little tolerance for offices' closing for lunch, and worsening traffic in cities means workers can't make it home and back fast enough anyway.

This is Aesop, the fabulist ( ' , 寓言家 ), the man of these charming little tales, often told in terms of animals and animal relationships, He says.

They were less likely to report symptoms of depression than those in the other facilities, for instance, and less likely to be bored or lonely.

The system Medicare developed to rate nursing home quality is of little help to finding a satisfactory place.

The study shows that those living the longest are more outgoing, more active and less neurotic ( ' , 神经质的 ) than other people.

The cost for saving our civilization would be considerably less than the world's current military spending.

More people who lived in cities and suburbs said they wanted to try driverless cars than those who lived in rural areasWhile there's reason to believe that interest in self-driving cars is going up across the board, a person's age will have little to do with how self-driving cars can become mainstream.

Indeed, we have made substantial progress in some parts of the world on at least one of these—the distribution of family-planning services and the associated shift to smaller families.

I am about to make things more complicated by suggesting that what kind of facility an older person lives in may matter less than we have assumed.

Even if there is no concrete benefit paid in response to your good deed, at the very least, the doer of the good deed has the opportunity to enjoy a kind of spiritually enlightened moment.

College graduates, for example, are particularly interested in driverless cars compared with those who have less education: 59 percent of college graduates said they would like to use a driverless car compared with 38 percent of those with a high-school diploma or lessWhere a person lives matters, toIt will not necessarily reduce road accidents.

But what effect does your personality have on your longevity ( ' , 长寿)? Do some kinds of personalities lead to longer lives? A new study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society looked at this question by examining the personality characteristics of 246 children of people who had lived to be at least 100.

But an accumulating body of research indicates that some distinctions between one type of elder care and another have little real bearing on how well residents do.

As I was considering all this, a press release from a respected research firm crossed my desk, announcing that the five-star rating system that Medicare developed in 2008 to help families compare nursing home quality also has little relationship to how satisfied its residents or their family members are.

An elderly person who describes herself as in poor health, therefore, might be no less depressed in assisted -86 living ( ' , even if her children preferred it) than in a nursing home.

The report warns that 200 million poor workers are at risk of joining the ranks of people living on less than two dollars per day in the past three years.

In some departments, either the chairman or the director of graduate studies serves for at least the first semester as a new student adviser.

I don’t know about perfecting but they want at least to be able to communicate decently.

But many tech home   remedies can be explained by a little science.

We can lead people to eat less while helping the restaurant business.

The students who held a fixed mind-set, however, were concerned about looking smart with less regard for learning.

The secret to eating less and being happy about it may have been cracked years ago—by McDonald's.

That would get you back in the restaurant—and make you eat a little less.

Service quality has little effect on tip size.

Research shows that managers who have a fixed mind-set are less likely to seek or welcome feedback from their employees than are managers with a growth mind-set.

People should eat much less if they wish to stay healthy and happy.

Pay a little more upfront for your beer or burger.

One of the prizes used was a lottery ticket ( ' , 彩票), with a $10, $50 or $100 payout, and this was as effective as a tangible gift in persuading people to eat less.

For instance, talking about mathematical geniuses who were more or less born that way puts students in a fixed mind-set, but descriptions of great mathematicians who fell in love with math and developed amazing skills produce a growth mind-set.

Consumers, in the U.S. at least, are acting cautiously with the savings they're getting at the gas pump, as the memory of the recent great recession is still fresh in their mind.

Consumers have more money in their pockets when they're paying less at the pump.

Attributing a bad grade to their own lack of ability, those with a fixed mindset said that they would study less in the future, try never to take that subject again and consider cheating on future tests.

A good system is one that keeps that worst-case setting as improbable as possible while also offering strong protection in the event of a less-extraordinary attack.

A gamification strategy that is not sufficiently thought through or well tailored to its players may engage people for a little while, but it will not motivate people in the long term.

If you spend a little time digging for the right part-time jobs, you’ll save yourself time when you find a job that leaves you with enough time to get your school work done, too.

Did you know that besides larger places like France and Germany, Europe is home to several extremely tiny countries? One of these countries contains less than a square mile of land.

At least, the American  side of the falls.

Young people do less cooking at home than the elderly these days.

You just have to do a little thinking ahead and redefine what qualifies as dinner.

Which is nothing more or less than excellent service, if you have the money.

They get less sleep on public holidays.

They found clock timers to be more efficient but less happy because they felt little control over their lives.

The little boy walked out of the school with his head and shoulders hanging down.

Task timers are happier and more creative, but less productive.

She criticized me when I included little-known references and professional jargon ( ' , 行话 ).

In critique, however, we are forced to depart, to give up the perfection we thought we had achieved for the chance of being even a little bit better.

If you eat three meals a day and behave like most Americans, you probably get at least a third of your daily calories ( ' , 卡路里 ) outside the home.

Her release from prison has drawn little attention.

Canada got the least sleep of the year the night it beat Sweden in the Olympic hockey ( ' , 冰球 ) final.

Average people probably sleep less than the rich.

At least 65 million people in the United States have a criminal record.

"One of the risk factors for premature deaths is the air we breathe, over which individuals have little control," he said.

"This is Aesop, the fabulist, the man of these charming little tales, often told in terms of animals and animal relationships," he says.

A 9-year-old girl in New Mexico has raised more than $500 for her little brother who needs heart surgery in Houston,Texas this July.

A little extra height brings a number of advantages, says Elio riboli of Imperial College.

Addison witulski's grandmother kim Allred said Addison probably overheard a conversation between family members talking about the funds needed to get her little brother to treatment.

As I was considering all this, a press release from a respected research firm crossed my desk, announcing that the five-star rating system that Medicare developed in 2008 to help families compare nursing home quality also has little relationship to how sa

Decades of working over coal fires in tight, closed spaces with little fresh airto ensure his dishes would not get col had fatally damaged his lungs.

I just draw little lines and nonsense really.

I was a little scared at first because he used a smooth edged tool to scrape the skin on my neck and shoulders.

I was hesitant because I knew so little about it and have never tried it before.

If you spend a little time digging for the right part-time jobs, you'll save yourself time when you find a job that leaves you with enough time to get your school work done, too.

In critique, however, we are forced to depart, to give up the perfection we thought we had achieved for the chance of being even a little bit better.

In fact, sometimes I draw a little, too.

In the back room of the little bakery, his interest in design and his baking talent combined to work wonders—he shaped delicious masterpieces out of flour, butter and sugar.

I've got a little put aside for a rainy day, but I might need to earn a little more before we go.

James pushed forward, making it to Alcatraz Island and back in a little more than two hours.

like good little scientists, children are always testing their child-sized theories about how things work.

Prior to the new study, little was known about the risks of getting directly infected by common respiratory viruses, such as the flu or common cold, on an airplane, the researchers said.

That means there's little money around for investment that would make cities liveable and more productive.

The boat, traveling between Nicaragua's Big Corn Island and Little Corn Island turned over Saturday near the larger island.

The frozen oranges and apples are a little cheaper, and fruits are really good for the brain.

They sleep very deeply and need little or no food.

Turkish authorities have just sunk something a little different than a ship, and it wouldn't normally ever touch water, an airbus A0.

Unfortunately, there is little that can be down to relieve muscle soreness.

While there's reason to believe that interest in self-driving cars is going up across the board, a person's age will have little to do with how self-driving cars can become mainstream.

deprive colleges of the right to manage their facilitiesmake workers less motivated in performing dutiesrender a number of campus workers joblesslead to the privatization of campus facilitiesThe outsourcing plan is not yet finalized.

Writing in the journal, the scientists describe how the storks from Germany were clearly affected by the presence of waste sites, with four out of six birds that survived for at least five months overwintering on rubbish dumps in northern Morocco, instead of migrating to the Sahel.

Working-class children are happier, more independent, complain less and are closer to family members, Ms.

Unfortunately, the current low prices for oil, gas, and coal may provide little incentive for research to find even cheaper substitutes for those fuels.

The video challenge does not put individual students on the hot seat—so it's less intimidating by design.

The reason is that when carbon is priced, those emissions reductions that are least costly to implement will happen first.

The cycle continues: Poorer parents have less time and fewer resources to invest in their children, which can leave children less prepared for school and work, which leads to lower earnings.

Social scientists say the differences arise in part because low-income parents have less money to spend on music class or preschool, and less flexible schedules to take children to museums or attend school events.

Physical punishment is used much less by well-educated parents.

Of families earning less than $30,000, 59% of children have done sports, 37% have volunteered and 41 % have taken arts classes.

Of course, much of this argument in the 1930s-40s was advanced because there was little or no experience in justifying apparel ( ' , 服装) on the basis of utility.

Most Grand Tourists, however, stayed for briefer periods and set out with less scholarly intentions, accompanied by a teacher or guardian, and expected to return home with souvenirs of their travels as well as an understanding of art and architecture formed by exposure to great masterpieces.

Less-educated parents, and poorer and black and Latino parents are more likely to believe that there is no such thing as too much involvement in a child's education.

Even people whose data are less popular can benefit.

Economic reasoning shows that the least expensive way for each country is to put a price on carbon emissions.

Discipline techniques vary by education level: 8% of those with a postgraduate degree say they often beat their children, compared with 22% of those with a high school degree or less.

But efforts are in place to expose more black, Hispanic, and low-income students to advanced math, in the hope that the demographic pool of high-level contenders will eventually begin to shift and become less exclusive.

71% of parents with a college degree say they do it every day, compared with 33% of those with a high school diploma or less.

We need to accept that fact across much of the planet, so waste with little or no treatment will be used in agriculture for good reason.

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a vast four-year global study which reported its initial conclusions earlier this year, found reasons to believe that managing ecosystems sustainably—working with nature rather than against it—might be less profitable in the short term, but certainly brings long-term rewards.

That is far less likely to happen if Congress also adopts strong pay-go rules requiring that any increase in payments to providers be offset by new taxes or budget cuts.

Southern states without strong teachers' unions have schools at least as awful as those in union states.

Perhaps there is less to fight about, with the country in a period of tranquility and the dangers of drug abuse and other unwholesome behavior well known.

Just having a strong teacher for one elementary year left pupils a bit less likely to become mothers as teenagers, a bit more likely to go to college and earning more money at age 28.

It will make the farm produce less competitive on the market.

It is also troubling that voting rates among our youngest eligible voters—18- to 24-year-olds—are way down: Little more than one in four now go to the polls, even in national elections, compared with almost twice that many when 18-year-olds were first given the vote.

It contributes little to the elimination of inequality.

Fair competition might create a strong incentive for insurers to charge less.

Clickthrough rates have been high so far ( ' , around 3-4%, compared with less than 0.3% online), but that may be a result of the novelty.

But we also found little interest in civic life beyond the tight circles of their family and immediate friends.

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequality from one generation to the next.

Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented ( ' , depending on the student's values), and being more respectful of the Earth, animals and other people.

While yoga and meditation ( ' , 静思 ) are scientifically proven to reduce stress levels, these programs do little to target the root causes of burnout and disengagement.

Those simultaneous challenges appear less overwhelming with increasingly better answers to a centuries-old question: how to make power portable.

They slept six hours a night or less.

They have little responsibility for public health problems.

These less- stressed workers gained an average of 62 minutes per week of productivity.

There is also very little detail on who will provide the funds or, importantly, who is responsible for their provision.

The most climate-vulnerable countries in the world have contributed very little to creating the global disease from which they now suffer the most.

The employees were less likely to leave their jobs, resulting in reduced turnover.

Studying at university will only become less attractive if employers shift their focus away from where someone went to university--and there is no sign of that happening anytime soon.

Schoololeavers may moan, but they have little choice but to embrace university and the student debt that comes with it.

Research finds that if employees suffer from high stress, they will be less motivated, less productive and more likely to quit.

Perhaps the reason why so many universities offer their students so little is they know studying at a top university remains a brilliant investment even if you don't learn anything.

No wonder it has become fashionable to denounce many universities as little more than elaborate con-tricks ( ' , 骗术).

Less than an hour away by snowmobile, Chinese labourers have updated the Great Wall Station, a vital part of China's plan to operate five bases on Antarctica, complete with an indoor badminton court and sleeping quarters for 150 people.

It has little to do with the quality or taste of cigarettes.

It has little impact on their decision whether or not to quit smoking.

It has just grown up a little.

If going to university doesn't work out, students pay very little--if any--of their tuition fees back: you only start repaying when you are earning ￡21,000 a year.

At least three Russian stations are already operating in Antarctica, part of its effort to challenge the dominance of the American GPS, and new stations are planned for sites like the Russian base, in the shadow of the Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity.

And while you may forgive your smartphone an occasional fault, you probably have less patience for error messages from your door lock.

And while assessments vary widely, geologists estimate that Antarctica holds at least 36 billion barrels of oil and natural gas.

Almost half of graduates--those who go on to earn less--will have a portion of their debt written off.

The third element of love in Sternberg’s theory is what he calls decision commitment, the decision that one is in a love relationship, the willingness to label it as such and the commitment to maintain that relationship at least for some period of time.

The purpose of today’s lecture, as you have seen from the title and the abstract, is to examine in more detail the problems facing small- and medium-sized enterprises which arise at least in part from having to adapt to rapid advances in technology.

In ponds closest to the colony, the result showed there were far more pollutants than the ponds less affected by the birds.

With little else to go on, they were asked to estimate Mr.Williams's salary, professional standing, and educational background.

They tend to offer too many less challenging courses.

They may have to use less effective drugs.

The shift, little noticed outside the medical establishment but already controversial inside it, suggests that doctors are starting to redefine their roles, from being concerned exclusively about individual patients to exerting influence on how healthcare dollars are spent.

Tennessee State's overall graduation rate is a tiny 39 percent, but at least it has a smaller gap between the outcomes for first-generation students and those of their peers.

So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? What explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the single strongest correlate of upward mobility.

Perhaps many teachers have too little time to allow students to form and pursue their own questions and too much ground to cover in the curriculum.

Overuse of less effective medicines.

Many large institutions keep this kind of data secret—or at least make it incredibly difficult to find.

Kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education came on campus with little academic know- how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation.

For students who have been coasting through college, and for American universities that have been demanding less work, offering more attractions and charging higher tuition, the party may soon be over.

But the most pervasive problem is less obvious: our own behaviour.

As a result, Black people are thought of a less competent and as having colder personalities.

Charles, as a singer, do you ever make yourself cry when you sing? I wonder if you can tell me a little bit about your job as a radio announcer.

And breakfast time arrived, and the coach driver had arranged for us to stop at this little cafe.

Another study also found eating a high-fat and high-sugar breakfast each day for as little as four days resulted in problems with learning and memory similar to those observed in overweight and obese individuals.

But compared with apes and monkeys, we have very little.

But I stopped after I showed my wife a little section.

But the first bite was a pleasant surprise, a little dry and lacking of taste, but at least a wing didn't get stuck in my throat.

Can you tell us a little about that?

Even parents who can see that a trip is little more than a party or celebration may well feel guilt that their child is left behind.

kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education came on campus with little academic know-how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation.

For instance, a research group here at Arizona State University recently claimed their developmental small CubeSats could cost as little as $3, 000 to put in orbit.

However, at a time of financial crisis, funding diminished and little changed.

I think she is to be commended for making an effort to include anecdotes about little known female scientist.

I was a little surprised to be invited, to be honest.

I wonder if you can tell me a little bit about your job as a radio announcer.

If going to university doesn't work out, students pay very little—if any—of their tuition fees back: you only start repaying when you are earning £21,000 a year.

If you eat two eggs topped with a little bit of cheese and an orange on the side, you already have 22 grams of protein.

It is also troubling that voting rates among our youngest eligible voters—18- to 24-yearolds— are way down: little more than one in four now go to the polls, even in national elections, compared with almost twice that many when 18-year-olds were first giv

It's a little dry and salty.

Matter and the now more exotic anti-matter would have had little space to avoid each other.

Moffitt said it's still unclear why some children have better self-control than others, though she says other researchers have found that it's mostly a learned behavior, with relatively little genetic influence.

Most large supermarket chains have cured ham in little packets.

Next, Twenge's team dug a little deeper into the data on screen time.

No wonder it has become fashionable to denounce many universities as little more than elaborate con-tricks.

Of course, much of this argument in the 1930s-40s was advanced because there was little or no experience in justifying apparel on the basis of utility.

Our customers come in and enjoy their food and drinks, while little rabbits play about and brush against their legs.

So Frankie in both real life and in the TV show lives in New York city, is a comic, is divorced, and has two little daughters.

Sometimes a young child may get overexcited and be a little too rough, but it's never a serious matter.

Teachers and students alike have experienced the curious paradox that beginners, as a rule, tend to think too little about what they are doing because they think too much about what they are doing.

That costume is often referred to as the most famous little black dress of all time.

The idea of one going in my mouth made me feel a little sick.