Home, neighbourhood and natural ability all affect results more than which school a child attends.
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Their vast accomplishments were being diminished by droves of ball players who lacked the God-given talent, baseball instincts and natural ability to achieve greatness in a sport where failure occurs more often than not.
North Carolina coach Dean Smith, sensing Jordan's offensive brilliance, his surpassing natural ability and his potential for a professional career without limitations, pushed him to work on his defensive game.
"We know low levels may impact muscle strength and bone turnover, but if an athlete has adequate levels there is no evidence of an enhanced benefit to performance, so natural talent and athletic ability is more likely, " Stevenson told CNN.
"It would be disappointing and disturbing if our ability to provide assistance to victims of natural disasters and our troops in Bosnia and Iraq were held hostage to partisan politics in the House, " White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles said in a statement.
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The judges, who visited all the finalists in August, said Cricklade's community garden was a "real joy" and praised the town's ability to bring heritage - both built and natural - to the fore.
Typical of all great sportsmen it is his natural balance and grace which stands him ahead of the rest in terms of natural ability.
At the end of the day, Jordan was a world-class basketball player because that was the sport that best matched his natural ability, talent, and training.
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Luckily for global society, contextualization is a natural ability in the female brain and the code we create can enable and transform context.
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An MBA cannot, and should not, replace gaining experience or natural personal ability.
In the country, his genial unflappability and natural authority were reassuring, as was his apparent ability to keep the unions quiet.
He thinks the Saudis are lying about their ability to crank up output and that natural decline rates from existing fields will overwhelm new fields from Iraq, Venezuela or Nigeria.
By improving the sensors that capture imagery and filtering results, a human user who is wearing an EEG cap can then rapidly view the filtered image set and let the brain's natural threat-detection ability work.
The smaller screen size did make touch input seem a little less natural, but the ability to just start typing and search or perform actions (such as sending an email) more than made up for the slightly cramped confines.
As women entrepreneurs, we need to allow that same natural ability to come shining through to our own services and products.
By devising compounds that bind to and inactivate these proteins, drug researchers hope to restore nerve cells' natural ability to return after an injury.
When you are running well in anything, the natural tendency is to overestimate your ability, let down your guard and lose your perception of risk.
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They both appear to be singular talents with natural leadership skills, off-the-charts intelligence, and an innate ability to tune out the extraneous noise and focus on what is important.
Natural gas power plants can increase or decrease their production relatively quickly, and that ability could help to make up for any shortfall in wind or solar generation, which varies depending on weather conditions, in order to meet demand.
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He is a footballer blessed with natural ability who also realised at a young age that talent is nothing without application and practice.
"The next president, I think, will have to be very creative at knitting together an ability to solve problems and an ability to govern from day one because they're going to arrive without any natural mandate -- because that's the reality of where the country is, " Gingrich said.
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And when you are running bad, the natural tendency becomes to start creating mental images that inhibit your ability to see the opportunities before you.
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Born in Nebraska and raised on a 1, 500-acre cattle ranch just outside Omaha, Raikes has a natural ability to wait out the shouting match, to say what no one else will even when it means challenging the formidable Ballmer.
The RDR can significantly increase the ability for states to provide and receive swift and effective support in the event of future natural disasters in the region, as well as provide a framework for closer links between regional disaster response authorities.
"The results of this program will help upper-limb amputees and spinal cord injury patients, as well as those who have lost the ability to use their natural limbs, to have as normal a life as possible despite severe injuries or degenerative neurological disease, " McLoughlin said.
Subsidies can propel risky technologies ahead of the natural ability to properly assimilate them, or worse, prompt liability waivers as in homeland security and nuclear power.
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The ability to use Watson to answer complex questions posed in natural language with speed, accuracy and confidence has enormous potential to improve decision making across a variety of industries from health care, to retail, telecommunications and financial services.
The ability to use Watson to answer complex questions posed in natural language with speed, accuracy and confidence has enormous potential to help improve decision making across a variety of industries from health care, to retail, telecommunications and financial services.
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As Chinese companies continue to move outward and, in addition to securing natural resources and infrastructure projects, acquire distribution networks, IP, and yes, even manufacturing facilities, their ability to draw upon a pool of global talent will be closely watched.
Susan: I believe women have exceptional natural talents and skills to compete and succeed in a male dominated world with one and only one exception: their ability to self promote.
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