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id_4700
Political transformation in Chile came about with the eradication of the Pinochet military regime in 1990 and the institution of a new democratically elected government led by Aylwin. The new government triggered economic growth. Aylwins government vowed to promote economic growth in parallel to the introduction of new...
There was no economic growth in Chile prior to Aylwin's government.
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id_4701
Political transformation in Chile came about with the eradication of the Pinochet military regime in 1990 and the institution of a new democratically elected government led by Aylwin. The new government triggered economic growth. Aylwins government vowed to promote economic growth in parallel to the introduction of new...
Chilean government believed the new social policies alone would sufficiently enhance economy.
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id_4702
Political transformation in Chile came about with the eradication of the Pinochet military regime in 1990 and the institution of a new democratically elected government led by Aylwin. The new government triggered economic growth. Aylwins government vowed to promote economic growth in parallel to the introduction of new...
Chile's economy peaked following the establishment of the new democratic regime.
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id_4703
Political, economic and demographic developments are combining to increase the wealth of individuals leading economies. These individuals take a much more active role in managing their personal financial affairs and in determining how their assets should be invested for their long-term benefit. As a result, we are seei...
Individuals cannot become affluent through inheriting old money.
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id_4704
Political, economic and demographic developments are combining to increase the wealth of individuals leading economies. These individuals take a much more active role in managing their personal financial affairs and in determining how their assets should be invested for their long-term benefit. As a result, we are seei...
Affluent individuals want to manage their own assets rather than use financial service providers.
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id_4705
Political, economic and demographic developments are combining to increase the wealth of individuals leading economies. These individuals take a much more active role in managing their personal financial affairs and in determining how their assets should be invested for their long-term benefit. As a result, we are seei...
Affluent individuals want to manage their own assets rather than use financial service providers.
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id_4706
Political, economic and demographic developments are combining to increase the wealth of individuals leading economies. These individuals take a much more active role in managing their personal financial affairs and in determining how their assets should be invested for their long-term benefit. As a result, we are seei...
Inherited old money will be completely replaced by new affluent money.
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id_4707
Pollution in the Bay POURING water into the sea sounds harmless enough. But in Florida Bay, a large and shallow section between the southern end of the Everglades and Florida Keys, it is proving highly controversial. That is because researchers are divided over whether it will help or hinder the plants and animals that...
Everyone agree with pouring water into sea is harmless enough even in Florida Bay area.
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id_4708
Pollution in the Bay POURING water into the sea sounds harmless enough. But in Florida Bay, a large and shallow section between the southern end of the Everglades and Florida Keys, it is proving highly controversial. That is because researchers are divided over whether it will help or hinder the plants and animals that...
Nitrogen was poured in from different types of crops as water flows through.
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id_4709
Pollution in the Bay POURING water into the sea sounds harmless enough. But in Florida Bay, a large and shallow section between the southern end of the Everglades and Florida Keys, it is proving highly controversial. That is because researchers are divided over whether it will help or hinder the plants and animals that...
Everglades restoration project can be effective regardless the cause of the pollution.
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id_4710
Pollution in the Bay POURING water into the sea sounds harmless enough. But in Florida Bay, a large and shallow section between the southern end of the Everglades and Florida Keys, it is proving highly controversial. That is because researchers are divided over whether it will help or hinder the plants and animals that...
Human has changed Florida Bay where old image before 1950s is unrecalled
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id_4711
Pollution in the Bay POURING water into the sea sounds harmless enough. But in Florida Bay, a large and shallow section between the southern end of the Everglades and Florida Keys, it is proving highly controversial. That is because researchers are divided over whether it will help or hinder the plants and animals that...
Tourism contributes fundamentally to economy of the Florida Bay area.
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id_4712
Poor farmers and poor food-exporting countries have for years suffered the disincentive of low food prices but recently they have seen their returns improve by an average of 20 per cent and this has brought real benefits to communities that rank amongst the poorest in the world. On the other hand, many, many millions o...
Rising food prices weigh more heavily in some places than others.
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id_4713
Poor farmers and poor food-exporting countries have for years suffered the disincentive of low food prices but recently they have seen their returns improve by an average of 20 per cent and this has brought real benefits to communities that rank amongst the poorest in the world. On the other hand, many, many millions o...
The main issue in the passage is rising food prices and how they create winners and losers.
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id_4714
Poor farmers and poor food-exporting countries have for years suffered the disincentive of low food prices but recently they have seen their returns improve by an average of 20 per cent and this has brought real benefits to communities that rank amongst the poorest in the world. On the other hand, many, many millions o...
Food subsidy programmes are intended to ease the pain of the effect rather than stop the development.
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id_4715
Population viability analysis To make political decisions about the extent and type of forestry in a region it is important to understand the consequences of those decisions. One tool for assessing the impact of forestry on the ecosystem is population viability analysis (PVA). This is a tool for predicting the probabil...
A species is said to be extinct when only one individual exists.
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id_4716
Population viability analysis To make political decisions about the extent and type of forestry in a region it is important to understand the consequences of those decisions. One tool for assessing the impact of forestry on the ecosystem is population viability analysis (PVA). This is a tool for predicting the probabil...
Scientists are interested in the effect of forestry on native animals.
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id_4717
Population viability analysis To make political decisions about the extent and type of forestry in a region it is important to understand the consequences of those decisions. One tool for assessing the impact of forestry on the ecosystem is population viability analysis (PVA). This is a tool for predicting the probabil...
PVA has been used in Australia for many years.
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id_4718
Population viability analysis To make political decisions about the extent and type of forestry in a region it is important to understand the consequences of those decisions. One tool for assessing the impact of forestry on the ecosystem is population viability analysis (PVA). This is a tool for predicting the probabil...
Extinction is a naturally occurring phenomenon.
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id_4719
Port One Air pollution is increasingly becoming the focus of government and citizen concern around the globe. From Mexico City and New York, to Singapore and Tokyo, new solutions to this old problem are being proposed, Mailed and implemenred with ever increasing speed. It is feared that unless pollution reduction measu...
According to British research, a mere twelve per cent of vehicles tested produced over fifty per cent of total pollution produced by the sample group.
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id_4720
Port One Air pollution is increasingly becoming the focus of government and citizen concern around the globe. From Mexico City and New York, to Singapore and Tokyo, new solutions to this old problem are being proposed, Mailed and implemenred with ever increasing speed. It is feared that unless pollution reduction measu...
Car-pooling has steadily become more popular in Los Angeles in recent years.
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id_4721
Port One Air pollution is increasingly becoming the focus of government and citizen concern around the globe. From Mexico City and New York, to Singapore and Tokyo, new solutions to this old problem are being proposed, Mailed and implemenred with ever increasing speed. It is feared that unless pollution reduction measu...
It is currently possible to measure the pollution coming from individual vehicles whilst they are moving.
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id_4722
Port One Air pollution is increasingly becoming the focus of government and citizen concern around the globe. From Mexico City and New York, to Singapore and Tokyo, new solutions to this old problem are being proposed, Mailed and implemenred with ever increasing speed. It is feared that unless pollution reduction measu...
Residents of Los Angeles are now tending to reduce the yearly distances they travel by car.
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id_4723
Port One Air pollution is increasingly becoming the focus of government and citizen concern around the globe. From Mexico City and New York, to Singapore and Tokyo, new solutions to this old problem are being proposed, Mailed and implemenred with ever increasing speed. It is feared that unless pollution reduction measu...
Charging drivers for entering certain parts of the city has been successfully done in Cambridge, England.
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id_4724
Possessing a Hoax Bomb is a crime when any device or package is used with the intent of making another person believe it is an explosive device or if it causes alarm or reaction by public safety officials.
Greg has an eight-inch length of pipe filled with finely ground coffee beans and plugged with wax. He places it in his boss's locker at work and waits for her reaction. This situation is the best example of a Hoax Bomb.
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id_4725
Possessing a Hoax Bomb is a crime when any device or package is used with the intent of making another person believe it is an explosive device or if it causes alarm or reaction by public safety officials.
Ian is working on a project in the metal shop at school. The instructor notices that Ian is holding a softball-sized black hunk of material that appears to have a fuse trailing from the opening at the top. Ian tells him he was trying to make an oil lamp. This situation is the best example of a Hoax Bomb.
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id_4726
Possessing a Hoax Bomb is a crime when any device or package is used with the intent of making another person believe it is an explosive device or if it causes alarm or reaction by public safety officials.
Harriet is waiting in line at the airport to pass through the metal detector. Security personnel notice a small, pineapple-shaped metal object that looks like a hand grenade in her purse. It turns out to be agift wrapped cigarette lighter. This situation is the best example of a Hoax Bomb.
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id_4727
Pottery production in ancient Akrotiri Excavations at the site of prehistoric Akrotiri, on the coast of the Aegean Sea, have revealed much about the technical aspects of pottery manufacture, indisputably one of the basic industries of this Greek city. However, considerably less is known about the socio-economic context...
There are plans to excavate new areas of the archaeological site in the near future.
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id_4728
Pottery production in ancient Akrotiri Excavations at the site of prehistoric Akrotiri, on the coast of the Aegean Sea, have revealed much about the technical aspects of pottery manufacture, indisputably one of the basic industries of this Greek city. However, considerably less is known about the socio-economic context...
Some of the evidence concerning pottery production in ancient Akrotiri comes from written records.
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id_4729
Pottery production in ancient Akrotiri Excavations at the site of prehistoric Akrotiri, on the coast of the Aegean Sea, have revealed much about the technical aspects of pottery manufacture, indisputably one of the basic industries of this Greek city. However, considerably less is known about the socio-economic context...
Pots for transporting liquids would have held no more than about 20 litres.
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id_4730
Pottery production in ancient Akrotiri Excavations at the site of prehistoric Akrotiri, on the coast of the Aegean Sea, have revealed much about the technical aspects of pottery manufacture, indisputably one of the basic industries of this Greek city. However, considerably less is known about the socio-economic context...
It would have been hard for merchants to calculate how much wine was on their ships.
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id_4731
Pottery production in ancient Akrotiri Excavations at the site of prehistoric Akrotiri, on the coast of the Aegean Sea, have revealed much about the technical aspects of pottery manufacture, indisputably one of the basic industries of this Greek city. However, considerably less is known about the socio-economic context...
The capacity of containers intended to hold the same amounts differed by up to 20 percent.
entailment
id_4732
Pottery production in ancient Akrotiri Excavations at the site of prehistoric Akrotiri, on the coast of the Aegean Sea, have revealed much about the technical aspects of pottery manufacture, indisputably one of the basic industries of this Greek city. However, considerably less is known about the socio-economic context...
Regular trading of goods around the Aegean would have led to the general standardisation of quantities.
entailment
id_4733
Pottery production in ancient Akrotiri Excavations at the site of prehistoric Akrotiri, on the coast of the Aegean Sea, have revealed much about the technical aspects of pottery manufacture, indisputably one of the basic industries of this Greek city. However, considerably less is known about the socio-economic context...
The capacity of containers intended to hold the same amounts differed by up to 20 percent.
entailment
id_4734
Pottery production in ancient Akrotiri Excavations at the site of prehistoric Akrotiri, on the coast of the Aegean Sea, have revealed much about the technical aspects of pottery manufacture, indisputably one of the basic industries of this Greek city. However, considerably less is known about the socio-economic context...
It would have been hard for merchants to calculate how much wine was on their ships.
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id_4735
Pottery production in ancient Akrotiri Excavations at the site of prehistoric Akrotiri, on the coast of the Aegean Sea, have revealed much about the technical aspects of pottery manufacture, indisputably one of the basic industries of this Greek city. However, considerably less is known about the socio-economic context...
Some of the evidence concerning pottery production in ancient Akrotiri comes from written records.
contradiction
id_4736
Pottery production in ancient Akrotiri Excavations at the site of prehistoric Akrotiri, on the coast of the Aegean Sea, have revealed much about the technical aspects of pottery manufacture, indisputably one of the basic industries of this Greek city. However, considerably less is known about the socio-economic context...
There are plans to excavate new areas of the archaeological site in the near future.
neutral
id_4737
Pottery production in ancient Akrotiri Excavations at the site of prehistoric Akrotiri, on the coast of the Aegean Sea, have revealed much about the technical aspects of pottery manufacture, indisputably one of the basic industries of this Greek city. However, considerably less is known about the socio-economic context...
Regular trading of goods around the Aegean would have led to the general standardisation of quantities.
entailment
id_4738
Pottery production in ancient Akrotiri Excavations at the site of prehistoric Akrotiri, on the coast of the Aegean Sea, have revealed much about the technical aspects of pottery manufacture, indisputably one of the basic industries of this Greek city. However, considerably less is known about the socio-economic context...
Pots for transporting liquids would have held no more than about 20 litres.
entailment
id_4739
Predicting earthquakes using observable phenomena like phases of the moon, cloud formations, weather conditions or animal behaviour is a controversial and, some would say, impossible task. There is little or no verifiable evidence to link any of these phenomena to predictions of actual seismic activity. Early detection...
Methods of detecting earthquakes are more reliable than methods of predicting earthquakes.
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id_4740
Predicting earthquakes using observable phenomena like phases of the moon, cloud formations, weather conditions or animal behaviour is a controversial and, some would say, impossible task. There is little or no verifiable evidence to link any of these phenomena to predictions of actual seismic activity. Early detection...
Electromagnetic signals can be caused by the fracturing of crystalline rock.
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id_4741
Predicting earthquakes using observable phenomena like phases of the moon, cloud formations, weather conditions or animal behaviour is a controversial and, some would say, impossible task. There is little or no verifiable evidence to link any of these phenomena to predictions of actual seismic activity. Early detection...
Primary waves travel at a similar speed to sound waves.
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id_4742
Prions (short for proteinaceous infectious particle) are infectious protein structures that replicate through conversion of normal host proteins of the same type. Though the exact mechanisms of their actions and reproduction are unknown, it is now commonly accepted that prions are responsible for a number of previously...
TSE, BSE and scrapie are all forms of CJD.
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id_4743
Prions (short for proteinaceous infectious particle) are infectious protein structures that replicate through conversion of normal host proteins of the same type. Though the exact mechanisms of their actions and reproduction are unknown, it is now commonly accepted that prions are responsible for a number of previously...
Prions replicate using proteins from the host animal.
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id_4744
Prions (short for proteinaceous infectious particle) are infectious protein structures that replicate through conversion of normal host proteins of the same type. Though the exact mechanisms of their actions and reproduction are unknown, it is now commonly accepted that prions are responsible for a number of previously...
Prion diseases are not all dangerous and could give some evolutionary advantage to their host.
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id_4745
Prions (short for proteinaceous infectious particle) are infectious protein structures that replicate through conversion of normal host proteins of the same type. Though the exact mechanisms of their actions and reproduction are unknown, it is now commonly accepted that prions are responsible for a number of previously...
Scrapie is untreatable.
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id_4746
Prions (short for proteinaceous infectious particle) are infectious protein structures that replicate through conversion of normal host proteins of the same type. Though the exact mechanisms of their actions and reproduction are unknown, it is now commonly accepted that prions are responsible for a number of previously...
Prions are thought to be responsible for mad cow disease.
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id_4747
Private airline companies have always been determined to operate a transport system that is safe for passengers, whilst still remaining competitively priced and commercially viable. However, a private sector business can only remain viable if it generates profits for its shareholders. Recent reports suggest that if all...
Current airline security systems provide the best possible mix of cost against benefit.
neutral
id_4748
Private airline companies have always been determined to operate a transport system that is safe for passengers, whilst still remaining competitively priced and commercially viable. However, a private sector business can only remain viable if it generates profits for its shareholders. Recent reports suggest that if all...
More effective airline security systems than are currently in use are available.
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id_4749
Private airline companies have always been determined to operate a transport system that is safe for passengers, whilst still remaining competitively priced and commercially viable. However, a private sector business can only remain viable if it generates profits for its shareholders. Recent reports suggest that if all...
Military aircraft are safer than commercial craft.
neutral
id_4750
Private airline companies have always been determined to operate a transport system that is safe for passengers, whilst still remaining competitively priced and commercially viable. However, a private sector business can only remain viable if it generates profits for its shareholders. Recent reports suggest that if all...
More effective airline security systems than are currently in use are available.
entailment
id_4751
Private airline companies have always been determined to operate a transport system that is safe for passengers, whilst still remaining competitively priced and commercially viable. However, a private sector business can only remain viable if it generates profits for its shareholders. Recent reports suggest that if all...
Current airline security systems provide the best possible mix of cost against benefit.
neutral
id_4752
Private airline companies have always been determined to operate a transport system that is safe for passengers, whilst still remaining competitively priced and commercially viable. However, a private sector business can only remain viable if it generates profits for its shareholders. Recent reports suggest that if all...
Military aircraft are safer than commercial craft.
neutral
id_4753
Private property, trespassers will be prosecuted- A notice on a plot of land.
The passerby may read the notice and may not trespass.
entailment
id_4754
Private property, trespassers will be prosecuted- A notice on a plot of land.
The people are scared of prosecution.
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id_4755
Problems with Water Nearly half the worlds population will experience critical water shortages by 2025, according to the United Nations (UN). Wars over access to water are a rising possibility in this century and the main conflicts in Africa during the next 25 years could be over this most precious of commodities, as c...
Questions at the World Summit over including water sanitation have not yet been agreed.
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id_4756
Problems with Water Nearly half the worlds population will experience critical water shortages by 2025, according to the United Nations (UN). Wars over access to water are a rising possibility in this century and the main conflicts in Africa during the next 25 years could be over this most precious of commodities, as c...
Vocal environment activists were arrested at the World Summit.
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id_4757
Problems with Water Nearly half the worlds population will experience critical water shortages by 2025, according to the United Nations (UN). Wars over access to water are a rising possibility in this century and the main conflicts in Africa during the next 25 years could be over this most precious of commodities, as c...
A recent report says by 2025 that 25 African countries will suffer from water scarcity alone.
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id_4758
Problems with Water Nearly half the worlds population will experience critical water shortages by 2025, according to the United Nations (UN). Wars over access to water are a rising possibility in this century and the main conflicts in Africa during the next 25 years could be over this most precious of commodities, as c...
Some African countries are currently at war over water resources.
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id_4759
Problems with Water Nearly half the worlds population will experience critical water shortages by 2025, according to the United Nations (UN). Wars over access to water are a rising possibility in this century and the main conflicts in Africa during the next 25 years could be over this most precious of commodities, as c...
Plants are being introduced that can flourish with little water.
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id_4760
Problems with Water Nearly half the worlds population will experience critical water shortages by 2025, according to the United Nations (UN). Wars over access to water are a rising possibility in this century and the main conflicts in Africa during the next 25 years could be over this most precious of commodities, as c...
The World Summit had many good ideas but had little contribution on how to put the ideas into practice.
neutral
id_4761
Program meals to be ready when you arrive home. TMIO brings you the Internet, cell phone, and telephone controlled IO professional series intelligent oven. TMIO creates unprecedented mobility for your household, and revolutionizes your lifestyle and cooking experience with the 30-inch dual oven, refrigerated, internet-...
The TMOI has a lower 'pass' system than most high quality ovens.
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id_4762
Program meals to be ready when you arrive home. TMIO brings you the Internet, cell phone, and telephone controlled IO professional series intelligent oven. TMIO creates unprecedented mobility for your household, and revolutionizes your lifestyle and cooking experience with the 30-inch dual oven, refrigerated, internet-...
The amount of heat loss is reduced by using space technology.
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id_4763
Program meals to be ready when you arrive home. TMIO brings you the Internet, cell phone, and telephone controlled IO professional series intelligent oven. TMIO creates unprecedented mobility for your household, and revolutionizes your lifestyle and cooking experience with the 30-inch dual oven, refrigerated, internet-...
The TMIO can be controlled from your mobile.
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id_4764
Program meals to be ready when you arrive home. TMIO brings you the Internet, cell phone, and telephone controlled IO professional series intelligent oven. TMIO creates unprecedented mobility for your household, and revolutionizes your lifestyle and cooking experience with the 30-inch dual oven, refrigerated, internet-...
The oven has a metallic outer surface.
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id_4765
Program meals to be ready when you arrive home. TMIO brings you the Internet, cell phone, and telephone controlled IO professional series intelligent oven. TMIO creates unprecedented mobility for your household, and revolutionizes your lifestyle and cooking experience with the 30-inch dual oven, refrigerated, internet-...
The glass oven window can sometimes get hot.
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id_4766
Program meals to be ready when you arrive home. TMIO brings you the Internet, cell phone, and telephone controlled IO professional series intelligent oven. TMIO creates unprecedented mobility for your household, and revolutionizes your lifestyle and cooking experience with the 30-inch dual oven, refrigerated, internet-...
An extra full-width broiler pan is provided free with all TMIO ovens.
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id_4767
Programmable plants. In electronics, even the most advanced computer is just a complex arrangement of simple, modular parts that control specific functions; the same integrated circuit might be found in an iPhone, or in an aircraft. Biologists are creating this same modularity in wait for it plants, by designing gene "...
The scientists are using a technique from electronics to control specific plant properties.
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id_4768
Programmable plants. In electronics, even the most advanced computer is just a complex arrangement of simple, modular parts that control specific functions; the same integrated circuit might be found in an iPhone, or in an aircraft. Biologists are creating this same modularity in wait for it plants, by designing gene "...
Some synthetic biologists work with genetic circuits of mammals.
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id_4769
Programmable plants. In electronics, even the most advanced computer is just a complex arrangement of simple, modular parts that control specific functions; the same integrated circuit might be found in an iPhone, or in an aircraft. Biologists are creating this same modularity in wait for it plants, by designing gene "...
Most of synthetic biologists work with mammals.
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id_4770
Project management, the system of organising resources to achieve a finite long-term goal, contrasts starkly with process-based operations, such as traditional banking. When such process-based industries, which can be characterised by a functional execution of immediate tasks, embark on a project a clash of cultures al...
Traming courses in planning software are sufficient for acquiring project management expertise.
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id_4771
Project management, the system of organising resources to achieve a finite long-term goal, contrasts starkly with process-based operations, such as traditional banking. When such process-based industries, which can be characterised by a functional execution of immediate tasks, embark on a project a clash of cultures al...
When working on a project, senior staff might be accountabk to a more junior project manager.
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id_4772
Project management, the system of organising resources to achieve a finite long-term goal, contrasts starkly with process-based operations, such as traditional banking. When such process-based industries, which can be characterised by a functional execution of immediate tasks, embark on a project a clash of cultures al...
Long-range planning 1s antithetical to the discipline of project management.
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id_4773
Project management, the system of organising resources to achieve a finite long-term goal, contrasts starkly with process-based operations, such as traditional banking. When such process-based industries, which can be characterised by a functional execution of immediate tasks, embark on a project a clash of cultures al...
The banking industry has resisted adopting project management methodologies.
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id_4774
Project management, the system of organising resources to achieve a finite long-term goal, contrasts starkly with process-based operations, such as traditional banking. When such process-based industries, which can be characterised by a functional execution of immediate tasks, embark on a project a clash of cultures al...
The passage indicates that project management methodologies are at odds with some imdustries.
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id_4775
Pronunciation and Phsyiognomy Imagine the scene: you are sitting on the tube and on gets someone you instinctively feel is American. To make sure you ask them the time, and are right, but how did you know? When we say someone looks American, we take into consideration dress, mannerism and physical appearance. However, ...
People often make fun of standard British RP.
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id_4776
Pronunciation and Phsyiognomy Imagine the scene: you are sitting on the tube and on gets someone you instinctively feel is American. To make sure you ask them the time, and are right, but how did you know? When we say someone looks American, we take into consideration dress, mannerism and physical appearance. However, ...
Facial features contribute to the incomprehensibility of Midlands English.
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id_4777
Pronunciation and Phsyiognomy Imagine the scene: you are sitting on the tube and on gets someone you instinctively feel is American. To make sure you ask them the time, and are right, but how did you know? When we say someone looks American, we take into consideration dress, mannerism and physical appearance. However, ...
New phonemes are difficult to learn.
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id_4778
Pronunciation and Phsyiognomy Imagine the scene: you are sitting on the tube and on gets someone you instinctively feel is American. To make sure you ask them the time, and are right, but how did you know? When we say someone looks American, we take into consideration dress, mannerism and physical appearance. However, ...
Speech organs are muscles.
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id_4779
Pronunciation and Phsyiognomy Imagine the scene: you are sitting on the tube and on gets someone you instinctively feel is American. To make sure you ask them the time, and are right, but how did you know? When we say someone looks American, we take into consideration dress, mannerism and physical appearance. However, ...
The psychological and socio-linguistic factors that make it difficult for adult learners of foreign languages to gain good pronunciation are not as important as other factors.
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id_4780
Pronunciation and Phsyiognomy Imagine the scene: you are sitting on the tube and on gets someone you instinctively feel is American. To make sure you ask them the time, and are right, but how did you know? When we say someone looks American, we take into consideration dress, mannerism and physical appearance. However, ...
Further study into the science of voice production will cost considerable sums of money.
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id_4781
Proponents of recycling are adamant that we must preserve the worlds precious natural resources by reducing our consumption of new raw materials. They say that to accomplish this all we need to do is to reuse or recycle many materials that traditionally would be thrown away and end up in landfill sites. Many local auth...
Most local authorities have end-to-end recycling facilities
neutral
id_4782
Proponents of recycling are adamant that we must preserve the worlds precious natural resources by reducing our consumption of new raw materials. They say that to accomplish this all we need to do is to reuse or recycle many materials that traditionally would be thrown away and end up in landfill sites. Many local auth...
Most of the public are reluctant to participate in recycling because they do not know what goes where.
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id_4783
Proponents of recycling are adamant that we must preserve the worlds precious natural resources by reducing our consumption of new raw materials. They say that to accomplish this all we need to do is to reuse or recycle many materials that traditionally would be thrown away and end up in landfill sites. Many local auth...
Some people say that recycling is a wasteful use of resources.
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id_4784
Provide mid-day meals to the children in primary schools to increase the number of students attending schools
Mid-day meals will attract the children to the schools
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id_4785
Provide mid-day meals to the children in primary schools to increase the number of students attending schools
Those children who are otherwise deprived of good food will attend the schools.
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id_4786
Psychology and personality ASSESSMENT Our daily lives are largely made up of contacts with other people, during which we are constantly making judgments of their personalities and accommodating our behaviour to them in accordance with these judgments. A casual meeting of neighbours on the street, an employer giving ins...
Research since 1940 has been based on acceptance of previous theories.
contradiction
id_4787
Psychology and personality ASSESSMENT Our daily lives are largely made up of contacts with other people, during which we are constantly making judgments of their personalities and accommodating our behaviour to them in accordance with these judgments. A casual meeting of neighbours on the street, an employer giving ins...
People often feel that they have been precisely assessed.
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id_4788
Psychology and personality ASSESSMENT Our daily lives are largely made up of contacts with other people, during which we are constantly making judgments of their personalities and accommodating our behaviour to them in accordance with these judgments. A casual meeting of neighbours on the street, an employer giving ins...
People make false assumptions about the expertise of psychologists.
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id_4789
Psychology and personality ASSESSMENT Our daily lives are largely made up of contacts with other people, during which we are constantly making judgments of their personalities and accommodating our behaviour to them in accordance with these judgments. A casual meeting of neighbours on the street, an employer giving ins...
Unscientific systems of personality assessment have been of some use.
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Psychology and personality ASSESSMENT Our daily lives are largely made up of contacts with other people, during which we are constantly making judgments of their personalities and accommodating our behaviour to them in accordance with these judgments. A casual meeting of neighbours on the street, an employer giving ins...
It is likely that some psychologists are no better than anyone else at assessing personality.
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Pulling strings to build pyramids No one knows exactly how the pyramids were built. Marcus Chown reckons the answer could be hanging in the air. The pyramids of Egypt were built more than three thousand years ago, and no one knows how. The conventional picture is that tens of thousands of slaves dragged stones on sledg...
Clemmons found a strange hieroglyph on the wall of an Egyptian monument.
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Pulling strings to build pyramids No one knows exactly how the pyramids were built. Marcus Chown reckons the answer could be hanging in the air. The pyramids of Egypt were built more than three thousand years ago, and no one knows how. The conventional picture is that tens of thousands of slaves dragged stones on sledg...
Gharib had previously done experiments on bird flight.
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Pulling strings to build pyramids No one knows exactly how the pyramids were built. Marcus Chown reckons the answer could be hanging in the air. The pyramids of Egypt were built more than three thousand years ago, and no one knows how. The conventional picture is that tens of thousands of slaves dragged stones on sledg...
Gharib and Graff tested their theory before applying it.
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Pulling strings to build pyramids No one knows exactly how the pyramids were built. Marcus Chown reckons the answer could be hanging in the air. The pyramids of Egypt were built more than three thousand years ago, and no one knows how. The conventional picture is that tens of thousands of slaves dragged stones on sledg...
The team decided that it was possible to use kites to raise very heavy stones.
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Pulling strings to build pyramids No one knows exactly how the pyramids were built. Marcus Chown reckons the answer could be hanging in the air. The pyramids of Egypt were built more than three thousand years ago, and no one knows how. The conventional picture is that tens of thousands of slaves dragged stones on sledg...
It is generally believed that large numbers of people were needed to build the pyramids.
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Pulling strings to build pyramids No one knows exactly how the pyramids were built. Marcus Chown reckons the answer could be hanging in the air. The pyramids of Egypt were built more than three thousand years ago, and no one knows how. The conventional picture is that tens of thousands of slaves dragged stones on sledg...
The success of the actual experiment was due to the high speed of the wind.
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Pulling strings to build pyramids No one knows exactly how the pyramids were built. Marcus Chown reckons the answer could be hanging in the air. The pyramids of Egypt were built more than three thousand years ago, and no one knows how. The conventional picture is that tens of thousands of slaves dragged stones on sledg...
They found that, as the kite flew higher, the wind force got stronger.
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READING THE SCREEN Are the electronic media exacerbating illiteracy and making our children stupid? On the contrary, says Colin McCabe, they have the potential to make us truly literate. The debate surrounding literacy is one of the most charged in education. On the one hand there is an army of people convinced that tr...
It is not as easy to analyse literacy levels as it used to be.
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READING THE SCREEN Are the electronic media exacerbating illiteracy and making our children stupid? On the contrary, says Colin McCabe, they have the potential to make us truly literate. The debate surrounding literacy is one of the most charged in education. On the one hand there is an army of people convinced that tr...
Professional writers earn relatively more than they used to.
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