There is also a narcissistic delight in verbal dexterity, in dealing out the trenchant phrase.
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When children were retested five to 20 days post-program, researchers found no significant increases in verbal intelligence or brain changes for the children who completed the visual art training module.
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The pair were involved in a verbal exchange during day two of the second Test in Melbourne.
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Icahn took a roughly 13% position in the company after taking on Ackman in a verbal slugfest on CNBC.
There is no formal contract for the land, but rather "consensus building, " he says, that results in a verbal go-ahead from the collective parties.
They found that patients showed significant improvement in the delayed verbal recall task, in which participants were asked to remember what they had been told earlier.
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Honours even then in the verbal sparring stakes with neither boxer landing a knockout punch but expect more fireworks when the fighters square up for real in the ring next month.
The finding could suggest that babies with better memory and motor skills may advance faster in their verbal abilities, but it isn't clear if that is based on genetic or environmental factors, Dr. Kuhl says.
Mori's Yoshimitsu Isoi says his firm found it hard to put everything into a written contract in China, rather than relying on verbal agreements as in Japan.
When the Chinese-American scores were reassessed using up-to-date intelligence metrics, Flynn found, they came in at 97 verbal and 100 nonverbal.
Often in the lab, people control their facial expressions, and in written or verbal surveys, they answer politely rather than identifying how they really feel.
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The two countries have engaged in military and verbal jousts since his departure on Wednesday, despite assurances from both sides that they would seek peace through dialogue.
Three things happened to me when I was 17 that turned out to have a significant effect on my interest in communications, and specifically non-verbal communications, later in life.
Scanning their brains using functional magnetic resonance imaging, the scientists found that a region involved in language processing - the temporal lobe, part of the prefrontal cortex - was activated during verbal learning in rested patients.
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Later the same day, lawyers from both sides got into verbal fisticuffs in open court, over something they'd supposedly settled, earlier.
Instead, Zidane was dismissed from the field for headbutting Materazzi, apparently in retaliation to some verbal insult offered by the Italian defender.
Through me, he must learn to see all people as created equal, to never disrespect women in any way with verbal, emotional or physical abuse.
Increased awareness of our non-verbal signals in communications, to take only one example, brings with it a huge increase in our ability to read others.
Business Insider's Alex Davies notes that many courts no longer accept verbal evidence in the case of traffic disputes, so video evidence is essential to succeed in a claim.
It is also like a wrestling match, but now verbal, in which the television interviewer tries to draw out of the wrestler more than a few mumbled stock phrases, while the wrestler lamely resists, clearly stalling until the allotted time runs out.
In January, there were 32 cases of physical injury or verbal abuse of police officers in Lima: in all but five cases, the victims were female traffic cops.
The studies together indicate that math ability is inborn in many species, with number sense, mathematical skills and verbal ability perhaps being separate talents in humans that we later learn to combine.
They believe that the primates, which live in very large social groups, are using the verbal exchanges to bond with each other, in a similar way to how humans might use small talk.
In one task, volunteers were exposed to one of three stressful situations (threat of unemployment, a shop-lifting accusation or an incident in a nursing home), where they had to prepare a verbal response and argue their case in front of a camera.
Bill Clinton's first major verbal stumble came in the run-up to the New Hampshire primary.
Georgian Street poetry, sonnets and rhymes almost rap-like in their word play and verbal trickery, are immensely popular too.
This is because an offer is not legally binding until contracts have been exchanged, usually about two months after an offer has been accepted (except in Scotland, where a verbal agreement commits both sides).
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In contrast to Egypt, where America had influence on both Hosni Mubarak and the army it had helped to equip, it had no serious leverage on the ground in Iran, and its verbal support might have damaged the credibility of the very people it was trying to help.
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