In seeking to resolve these dilemmas, central bankers have tried to keep their two tasks separate.
Researchers from the University of Georgia recruited 51 students who performed two tasks to test self-control.
In theory, members of a unitary board combine two tasks: developing the firm's strategy, in the broadest sense, and ensuring compliance with the law and best practice.
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Having them at their own screening would accomplish two tasks--help convince buyers that the movie's stars supported it, and would presumably show up to promote the movie down the line.
Ministers want the incoming PCCs to focus on two tasks: cutting crime and improving public confidence, because that's what the public will judge them on when election day comes again.
So, while you might be more interested in performance or production with Push, in reality, the two tasks can also be combined somewhat seamlessly, which is quite the exciting prospect if you've so far been using multiple devices to achieve something similar.
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Researchers at the University of Utah, for instance, have found that people's ability to juggle two tasks begins to drop off in their 30s and then sharply drops in their 40s, which contradicts earlier suspicions that people's ability to multitask only began to degrade when they're much older.
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And that points to two internal tasks and two external ones.
The Federal Reserve should have two key tasks--and only two: preserving the integrity of the dollar and dealing vigorously with financial panics to limit unnecessary damage.
The new four-party Slovak coalition (it also includes a small Christian-Democrat party) will have two big tasks.
Fifty-one students from the University of Oxford, split into two groups, were asked to perform two arithmetic tasks over a five-day period.
Whoever ends up leading the next government faces two main tasks.
Marissa Mayer has two monumental tasks ahead of her: helming the massive Yahoo ship away from the rocks and giving birth to a baby boy who is due in October.
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During the first stage of the project, this secretariat has taken on two fundamental tasks: documenting the State of the Art in teaching policy in the region, and drawing up criteria or guidelines for policy making in the field.
But before that, Mr Swinney knows he has two more urgent tasks.
In what may be a once-in-a-lifetime global downturn, they face two urgent and related tasks.
Southwest One was set up to save money by carrying out back office tasks for two councils and the police.
These mundane tasks have two things in common: They're unavoidable in an economy still awash in paper, and computers can make them more efficient.
Two out of three of those tasks would be a natural fit for a small device, while the need to surf and play games would ensure the smartphone doesn't become obsolete.
Brody Shores, 20, a junior from Alexandria, Louisiana, volunteered two overnight shifts, taking on tasks such as helping frail and weary nursing home residents arriving by bus, organizing supplies of clothes and making sandwiches for evacuees.
We give them a couple of tasks and some actionable items for the two weeks.
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These are young village women who've undergone two years of training to take on the routine tasks associated with eye surgery.
He added that the hospital should also have considered a recommendation that two members of staff attend patients' personal care tasks, such as bathing.
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Microsoft also devised a split-screen interface to allow two people to share a PC for doing uncomplicated tasks like data entry, simple document processing and browsing.
The GPU contains a unified array of 18 compute units, which collectively generate 1.84 Teraflops of processing power that can freely be applied to graphics, simulation tasks, or some mixture of the two.
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The work, by Professor Brian Butterworth, has shown that dyscalculic children are troubled by even the simplest numerical tasks such as selecting the larger of two numbers or counting the number of objects in a display.
On a recent morning, my wife was busy with several work related tasks on her Macbook Air when our two year-old daughter sprinted across the room and dove onto the couch, knocking the computer lid shut.
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