This is especially true if you ask really vague questions, like overall, do you feel better as opposed to more specific or objective questions.
Start by setting your business or financial objective.
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Some strategies: You might go out to eat together or enlist an objective third party, such as a minister, social worker, geriatric-care manager or friend.
Be the one to ask good questions, bringing it back the business or the overarching objective at hand.
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After all, race is not a scientific concept that can be unequivocally confirmed with a DNA test or any other objective measure that could stand up to judicial scrutiny.
There's been kind of a classical dilemma in the field of reporting, saying we have to be objective or we can be a bit of an agitator for social change.
If you're employed and thinking about changing jobs, or if your objective is to make a career switch, holiday gatherings also offer a chance to ask people about their own work.
So whether they want to pursue this as a career objective or many of our students just want to have better communication and articulation and be able to you know, hold an intelligent conversation, we provide that for all of them.
The counterpoint by Ms. Corcoran, while having some valid points, really lacked any kind of objective evidence or analysis to refute the claim.
Job security and prospects for income growth are often uncertain, so your attitude and confidence may be as important as objective facts or data.
Because the Supreme Court wisely understood that the Founders, in codifying these important rights, never intended them to be used to bring harm to the people in that theater when someone stupidly decides that it would be amusing or meet some perverse objective by causing a panic.
Yes, you can still achieve short-term success on Facebook or Twitter, but the real objective is to settle a sustainable presence, which is the only way to reach ROI or ROO (Return on Objectives).
The Committee also anticipates that inflation over the medium term likely would run at or below its 2 percent objective.
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Your mom or best friend are not objective feedback and will not want to hurt your feelings with negative comments.
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Enhanced investments would facilitate sustained coordination across research and regulatory agencies with the objective of reducing or eliminating harmful environmental exposures and modifying social and lifestyle factors implicated in breast cancer.
As an example, the Navy's newest communications satellite, the Mobile User Objective System, or MUOS, is intended to provide more-reliable links for special-operations personnel and other military users than current Navy-operated satellites.
Unlike that mainstream Mountain View product, however, Mann's version has reportedly been around in one form or another for 34 years, and was designed with the objective of aiding vision, rather than capturing stills and video or providing a bounty of database-aided readouts.
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Success in social media per se is not a rational objective for most organizations or for most individuals.
Meanwhile, inflation is subdued, running at or below our long-run objective of 2 percent, while inflation expectations remain well anchored .
If she were having an affair with him how objective was that book or any of her stories for that matter?
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Might his family ties to Alpha make it harder for him to reach objective decisions about buying or selling its stock for his funds?
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It is -- I don't have to imply or insinuate that it is the objective of the Republicans, including contenders for president, to roll back those reforms because they say so themselves.
And building a very basic development tool might encourage more people to eventually learn how to program Objective-C, or whatever iPhone apps are coded with in the future, giving the iPhone platform a stronger farm system.
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When he took office in January of 2009, you could ask 10 members of the United States military -- or the previous administration what our objective in Afghanistan was and you would get 10 different answers because it was so unclear.
If you can tell from what your app needs to do that you will need to go native, bite the bullet and learn one of the native tongues (Objective C for iOS or Java for Android.) Bell strongly advises that if you go the mobile route, pick iOS or Android and build for that first.
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Haefner recommends asking three or four people to edit it, as sometimes you need an objective eye to notice that some content may be sloppy, inappropriate or irrelevant.
For starters international law has objective criteria for determining whether or not an entity qualifies as a state.
Then you will know whether increasing compliance is really the objective of these efforts, or is it something else.
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They assume that because Taleb writes about unseen and improperly calculated risks, his objective must be to reduce or eliminate risk.
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