But how do changes like this microevolutionary changes relate to the history of life revealed by paleobiology?
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Career changes like Gupta's are likely to look attractive--and unavoidable--to a horde of displaced workers these days.
For conference room meetings, he recommends simple changes like swapping the donuts and sugary snacks for nuts.
Older-guy grumpiness can also be traced to major life changes like retirement that come with advancing years, Wyer says.
This and other changes like a slower accrual rate, Walsh said, would reduce the pension deficit by 450 million pounds.
It's also about harder to measure changes like whether they have the information and the power to plan their families on their own terms.
As our military leaders have made clear, changes like this affect our ability to respond to threats in an unstable part of the world.
Sweeping changes like that should make for a sweeping rate decrease.
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Due to the important role of humidity, tropical glaciers are likely to be the climatic indicators the most sensitive to climatic changes like the greenhouse effect.
Most consumer brand changes like this are met with skepticism.
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With changes like this, browsing the wealth of media shared on Twitter, not just tweets from people you follow, is becoming a more central part of using the service.
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And the article acknowledges that changes like lower mandated hours are part of an attempt to reduce turnover, so perhaps absent regulatory or advocate pressures firms would be limiting hours anyway.
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Even small changes like RIM's shift to optical trackpads instead of trackballs in its new devices should improve profit margins by decreasing warranty costs, UBS analyst Phillip Huang said in an August note.
She cites changes we have made before as a society to improve our way of life--changes like waste collection and public education-- as models for how we need to change the world again.
The common thread among them is better app management, including customized default apps for basics like emails and calendars and cosmetic changes like hiding apps you never use or creating better, bolder icons.
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"Companies need to make changes like this in a way that their customers understand and in a way that they can see the benefit, " said Helio Fred Garcia, a New York University crisis-management professor.
He said small changes like showering instead of taking a bath, turning the tap off while brushing teeth or using a full load instead of a half load in washing machines could make a difference.
With guidance from Jean Duboc, a veteran of Carrefour's hypermarket division, CBD has reduced construction and operating costs of its hypermarkets by 30% since 2000 by making simple changes like renting out space at store entrances.
And as our military leaders have made clear, changes like this -- not well thought through, not phased in properly -- changes like this affect our ability to respond to threats in unstable parts of the world.
"But once you get into the question of income tax and radical changes like that, then I think we've been very clear - that would be a major change between the settlement of England and Wales, " said Mr Smith.
In addition to what he felt would be explosive costs, Emanuel also argued against personalized medicine by observing that behavioral and lifestyle changes like diet, smoking and exercise, which account for 40% to 60% of all disease, are far likelier to have an impact on longevity and health-care affordability than genetics and thus should be the center of focus.
And the minute something changes, like an upgrade or a new reporting demand, everything breaks down.
"It might start out with minimal changes, like a few more dents in the car, " Curry says.
He recommends a natural toothpaste that leaves the mouth's acidic balance neutral, as well as dietary changes, like minimizing acidic foods.
Little to help implement further changes, like standardizing information technology systems, coordinating purchasing, eliminating redundant treasury departments and figuring out exact job descriptions for top executives.
Lifestyle changes, like those mentioned above, as well as breathing exercises, yoga, and meditation, are gaining increasing support from the scientific community as effective methods to help treat psychiatric disorders.
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The question is: what will those changes look like.
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However, the implementation guidance for pulling contracted services back into the government that Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn issued in late May of 2009 made the changes sound like something more than a workforce adjustment.
Many of the most radical changes, like a proposal to restrict TV ads and a push from Grassley to set up a separate FDA division to monitor side effects, didn't make it into the Senate version.
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