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They are also spending more time working with each other rather than reporting upwards.

The bulk of the research shows that there may be a pause, or a shifting of gears in the 40s or 50s, but this shift can be exciting, rather than terrifying.

Penny-pinching UK consumers choose cheaper products from discounters such as Aldi and Lidl rather than luxury alternatives.

However, as Amy Edmondson of Harvard points out, organisations increasingly use team as a verb rather than a noun: they form teams for specific purposes and then quickly disband them.

And the quit rates were particularly convincing given that before the study started, most of the people had said they'd rather cut down gradually before quitting.

Rather than superpower conflict, countries unable to cope with food shortages now constitute the main threat to world security.

Tips benefit the boss rather that the employees.

Such children believe challenges are energizing rather than intimidating ( ' , 令人生畏); they offer opportunities to learn.

Rather, it is to recognize that in America's vast criminal justice system, second chances are crucial.

Building on a child's ability to feel joy, rather than pushing it aside, wouldn't be that hard.

Becoming educated should not require giving up joy but rather lead to finding joy in new kinds of things: reading novels instead of playing with small figures, conducting experiments instead of sinking cups in the bathtub, and debating serious issues rather than stringing together nonsense words, for example.

This finding supported ConAgra’s decision to position the product against other high quality frozen dinners, rather than as a diet or health food.

But their beds were provided by private individuals, rather than a hotel chain

And there are environmental benefits, too: renting a car when you need it, rather than owning one, means fewer cars are required and fewer resources must be devoted to making them

Several hours after a meal, people's hunger levels were predicted not by how much they'd eaten but rather by how much food they'd seen in front of them in other words, how much they remembered eating

It wasn't that Kodak was blind to the future, said Rebecca Henderson, a professor at Harvard Business School, but rather that it failed to execute on a strategy to confront it.

If you'd rather hide your actions, that's an indication that you're taking a risk and rationalizing it to yourself.

Boys at single-sex schools were said to be more likely to get involved in cultural and artistic activities that helped develop their emotional expressiveness, rather than feeling they had to conform to the "boy code" of hiding their emotions to be a "real man"

Singaporean head chef Tommy Teh Kum Chai offers daily specials on a blackboard, rather than sticking to a menu.

To this end, we walk the dog, play golf, go fishing, sit in the garden, drink outside rather than inside the pub, have a picnic, live in the suburbs, go to the seaside, buy a weekend place in the country.

These days, children are robbed of these ancient freedoms, due to problems like crime, traffic, the loss of the open spaces and odd new perceptions about what is best for children, that is to say, things that can be bought, rather than things that can be found

However, we spend money on drugs rather than on green places.

The increasing emphasis for the growing population of old people is in quality rather than quantity of years

The paper provides support for newer forms of psychotherapy (心理治疗) that urge people to accept their negative thoughts and feelings rather than fight them.

Goldberg calls the problem a disorder rather than a true addiction

He finds it rather unbearable.

But I'd rather spend my college days funding out how children learn.

He would rather have a meal an hour later

He would rather get a less demanding job.

Most of them were rather conservative.

"This finding supported ConAgra's decision to position the product against other high quality frozen dinners, rather than as a diet or health food.

Becoming educated should not require giving up joy but rather lead to finding joy in new kinds of things: reading novels instead of playing with small figures, conducting experiments instead of sinking cups in the bathtub, and debating serious issues rath

Chris Koch, who teaches "History of Broadcast Journalism" at Montgomery Community College in Rockville, Maryland, points out that reporting is about investigation rather than the memorization of minute details.

However, as Amy Edmondson of Harvard points out, organisations increasingly use "team" as a verb rather than a noun: they form teams for specific purposes and then quickly disband them.

Imagine a world where building the tallest skyscraper wasn't a race of height, but rather one to collect the most solar energy.

In a recent art assignment, a middle school student depicted an overburdened child who was being scolded for earning an A, rather than an A+, on a math exam.

In Beijing, one registration office had about 300 couples seeking to get married the day after the changes were announced, rather than the usual number of between 70 and 80.

In other words, it refers to anything that is acquired or learnt, rather than instinctive or natural.

Increasingly, researchers have begun to look at the quality of relationships, rather than at the frequency of contact, between the elderly and their children.

People aren't kidding when they say they love their dog or their dog loves them, but were rather ignorant about the nature of the relationships that form between dogs.

Post wants to make clear that she's not talking about legal rights, but rather personal preferences.

Rather than offer evidence for categorizing brains as "male" or "female, " research shows that brains fall into a wide range, with most people falling right in the middle.

Rather, the point is to use the results of this study to open up meaningful dialogues on implicit gender bias, be it at a departmental level or an institutional level or even a discipline level.

Rather, they saw a large chocolate cake and they each were given a slice.

Rats are often associated with spreading disease rather than preventing it, but this long-tailed animal is highly sensitive.

Rats are often associated with spreading disease rather than preventing it, but this long-tailed animal is highly sensitive Inside a rat's nose are up to 1, 000 different types of olfactory receptors whereas humans only have 100 to 200 types.

Researchers found it was a change in eating habits rather than breakfast itself that induced weight loss.

She is not doing this to drive you crazy; rather, she is learning that her desires and yours can differ, and that sometimes those differences are important and sometimes they are not.

So it may seem rather strange that I have returned to college to finish the degree I left undone some four decades ago.

so, I'm really enjoying it and I can' t wait for my next session, although the lessons are rather expensive.

Such children believe challenges are energizing rather than intimidating; they offer opportunities to learn.

The food-as-medicine movement has been around for decades, but it's making progress as physicians and medical institutions make food a formal part of treatment, rather than relying solely on medications.

These emails are often informative rather than personalized correspondents requiring a response or action.

This finding supported ConAgra's decision to position the product against other high quality frozen dinners, rather than as a diet or health food.

Though Chasin says the focus of the work is on the activity of writing, rather than the text that ends up getting written, some of the work that comes out of the sessions has stuck with her.

While some, like Maeda, emphasized the value of the degree rather than the education itself, others still see college as a way to gain new perspectives and life experiences.

Within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, anything goes mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.

When we ask teens to choose a hero, they usually select an older family member rather than a remote public figure.

Virtually all experts agree that the fee-for-service system—doctors are rewarded for the quantity of care rather than its quality of effectiveness—is a primary reason that the cost of care is so high.

The one in the House bill would have to negotiate rates with providers, rather than using Medicare rates, as many reformers wanted.

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.

Rather critical.

One main factor that has driven up medical expenses is that doctors are compensated for the amount of care rather than its effect.

One boy said, I'd rather be concentrating on artistic efforts than saving the world or something.

My own research at the Stanford Center on Adolescence uses in-depth interviews with small samples of youngsters rather than large-scale surveys.

The problem isn't the technology itself, but that the technology is being used to create more flexibility for the employer rather than the employee.

Rather than just dazzling with a high cool factor, there is a focus on the practical.

In a competitive work environment, employers are able to use technology to demand more from their employees rather than motivating workers with flexibility that benefits them.

Even utility companies, which have long viewed batteries and alternative forms of energy as a threat, are learning to embrace the technologies as enabling rather than disrupting.

Rather than merely asking about something they wanted to try, they tended to include both cause and effect in their question.

But the Food and Drug Administration has not approved Avastin for use in the eye, and using it rather than the alternative, Lucentis, might carry an additional, although slight, safety risk.

Indeed many organizations also useinstitutional or prestige advertising which is designed to build uptheir reputation rather than to sell particular products.

Instead of having a literal meaning, it docs something - conveying an attitude — just like the -ed ending conveys past tense rather than "meaning.

Rather than pay up or work out a settlement, Bowman decided to appeal—all the way to the Supreme Court.

Social learning theories contribute to our understanding of why we behave as we do, but much of the emphasis is on early socialization rather than on what occurs throughout life.

Democrats and Republicans can and will take sides on a number of issues, but a more crucial concern is that both are basing major policy decisions on guesstimates rather than looking at the vast wealth of raw data with a critical eye and an open mind

The result is a sort of high-quality, unusually rigorous coffee-table book, designed to be dipped into rather than read from beginning to end.

It focuses on theory rather than on practical skills.

It stresses competition rather than cooperation

It's rather remarkable for the fact that although it's extremely big, it's supported by just six rather slim legs.

I myself find them rather uncomfortable to sit in for very long, but people were used to more discomfort in the past.

Well, that's a good question, because the basic idea of chaos theory is that there aren't any "models" as such— there aren't guaranteed forms, but rather patterns of change in development

Rather than relying on how others classify you, consider how you identify yourself

I'd rather not make it something formal and structured.

When you reach your top height, do light activities rather than sleep too much

It seems people would rather give up something else than the big trip," he says.

It seems to me that creative writing is a process of revelation, really, rather than of creativity in the ordinary sense.

"By taking upon the role of adviser rather than decision maker, one does not suffer the consequences of decision fatigue," he says.

"Presumably it's because it's simple and easy to write a prescription and consider a patient case closed rather than investigate further," Polman says.

"Whole foods are always the best option rather than adding supplements," he says, noting the FDA does not regulate supplements as rigorously as foods or drugs.

Data reveals that economic inequality rather than family income might affect people's well-being.

For instance, years with a larger increase in online usage were followed by years with lower well-being, rather than the other way around.

Hacker's argument has met with opposition from other math educators who say what's needed is to help students develop a better relationship with math earlier, rather than teaching them less math altogether.

Harris says that American education is suffering from an epidemic of "fake math"—an emphasis on the rote memorization of formulas and steps, rather than an understanding of how math can influence the ways we see the world.

I explained to my student that I actually thought he was rather more confused than I was, and I argued back.

In a competitive work environment, employers are able to use technology to demand more from their employees rather than motivating workers with flexibility that benefits them.

Initially, rather than appointing a general contractor to run the project, the corporation decided to manage it themselves.

Is there anything you consider a burden rather than a privilege?

Last year, MATTEL also gave Barbie a flat foot rather than forcing her to be in heels all the time like the original Barbie is.

Londa Schiebinger, a professor of the history of science at Stanford University, called this passage rather astonishing.

Look, I'm terribly sorry to drop in this time on Friday, Paul, but it is rather important.

Provided you have not cheated by consulting an atlas, you will notice something rather surprising— the two lists will contain roughly the same number of states, but they will not be identical.

Rather than adding other metals, they developed a complex mechanical process involving repeated heating and very severe mechanical deformation, known as temp-forming.

Rather than just dazzling with a high cool factor, there is a focus on the practical.

Respondents' minds tended to wander more when they felt upset rather than happy.

Seek out your teammates purposefully rather than jumping on every new group project opportunity.

since the middle of the 20th century, though, things have turned the opposite way—these days, punishing hours at your desk, rather than days off, are seen as the mark of someone important.

So far, the main thing many large retailers have done in response to all this is to open online stores, so people will come to them directly rather than to Amazon and its smaller online rivals.

So they are likely to remain rich peopled playthings rather than practical transport solutions for the masses.

So we must aim to complement the rationality of the machine, rather than to compete with it.

Still, most people would probably rather feel a positive emotion than a negative one.

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

The problem isn't the technology itself, but that the technology is being used to create more flexibility for the employer rather than the employee.

There are more than plenty in our city, and we felt they are all rather similar to each other.

This sounds like so much hot air, but the near $13 billion fortune this entrepreneur has amassed comes from practical achievements rather than hypothetical ones.

virtually all experts agree that the fee-for-service system— doctors are rewarded for the quantity of care rather than its quality of effectiveness — is a primary reason that the cost of care is so high.

When Tm doing something I'd rather not do, or when I'm someplace I'd rather not be, I use my phone to port myself elsewhere.

within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, "anything goes" mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.

You weren't born with attitudes; rather they are all learned, and this happens in a number of ways.