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But if everyone had a low sensitivity to social disconnection, no one would stay back, take care of others, and help those in need, even at personal expense.
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Since the Artic does not have a unified set of environmental policies, the AECO published a discretionary set of guidelines for visitors and operators that are aimed at protecting the environment, ensuring safety and promoting cultural sensitivity and social interaction with locals.
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Michael Porter, a Harvard professor who has become the region's economic guru, peddles the comforting notion that Central America may be able to by-pass the sweatshop stage of development and leap quickly from poverty to northern standards of productivity, social protection and environmental sensitivity.
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Such aspirations, however, are more likely to be achieved if accompanied by a sensitivity toward prevailing social and political realities.
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Other barriers to reporting included workload pressures, red tape and hierarchy, reporting procedures and lack of sensitivity and support from social services and colleagues.
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To get started, he offers quizzes to determine one's "emotional style" along six dimensions: resilience, outlook, social intuition, self-awareness, sensitivity to context, and attention.
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Their sensitivity to potential disruptions in the social fabric was exquisite.
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Too many health sites and social media platforms are handled by healthy young people who lack sensitivity to the patient population or how to discuss a serious medical condition.
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Granted, Brooks does note a general preference for high-status mates, a keen sensitivity to evidence of our standing in the various social hierarchies we inhabit, and he does cite some empirical evidence to the effect that successful people tend to be self-deceived about their place in the social pecking order.
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