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The recruiters, I think, are even more enthusiastic about it because what companies want is people who can add value, people who can contribute. And therefore they value smartness, they value good grades and a good education, but they really like that practical intelligence and that creative ability,

There is no substitute really for learning about the world of work and being in the world of work. You can do that through internships. You can do it through summer job experiences or even from volunteer jobs in your local community. Strive early to get some kind of practical work experience.

Ultimately, you have to write what's coming at any given point in time. Fighting your instincts for practical reasons is a losing battle.

We wanted to do something practical with the assets that we had to work with here which is our warehouse and our trucks.

We've had a good response so far it's our first day of collections, as you see we're on our way of filling a truck with practical things that people can use there.

Bristol International will continue to carry out a strategic review of car parking options, so that a suitable and practical solution can be developed to meet the future needs of passengers parking at the airport.

We like to provide a clean slate each year to keep things interesting. Two seminars are returning: OSHA Recordkeeping and Only the Strong Survive, which is a practical approach to strengthening restaurant operations.

Both inside and outside the classroom, he's really genuinely concerned about both theoretical and practical issues. That's another thing that's distinctive. He's really able to join theory and practice and that is often a rare quality.

We are still in the preliminary phases of the general outlook of the torch relay but the route is not yet defined. The practical circumstances of the torch relay and the whole format is still under discussion.

Of course, what we are announcing today is not an instant, magical transformation of the energy market. It is a very realistic, practical step in a new direction. For the foreseeable future, for decades to come, the world will need hydrocarbons, and we will continue to invest in order to produce and sell oil and gas in the cleanest, most efficient way possible,

While I believe in the sanctity of completing Major League Baseball's entire 162-game championship season schedule using every practical means at our disposal, the Giants have requested that, due to cross country travel and other logistical issues that have arisen, it would be in their best interest to forego playing Monday's game,

The president is going to take a look at where we can get the most effective use of the resources. He wants to be practical and effective.

But let no one be under any doubt that the scale of the challenge that Europe faces in this emerging global economy is immense and the practical pace of our collective action to meet these challenge to date has just been too slow.

Families depend on About.com for practical solutions to everyday problems. Many parents, for example, often turn to our popular pregnancy and parenting sites for information, tools, and support. Throughout the coming months, About.com will significantly expand its Health and Fitness offering to the over 30 million people who visit our site each month.

The government may intend the non-disclosure provision to serve some purpose other than the suppression of speech, ... Nevertheless, it has the practical effect of silencing individuals with a constitutionally protected interest in speech and whose voices are particularly important in an ongoing national debate about the intrusion of governmental authority into individual lives.

The Moody's action was not totally unexpected given their stated view of the industry, ... It will have no practical effect on the conduct of our business. Even after the debt-rating cut, AT&T has a higher rating than its competitors ... AT&T is in a far better position than most of our competitors.

So the Proclamation of Emancipation, has come at last, or rather its forerunner. I suppose you are all very much excited about it. For my part, I can't see what practical good it can do now. Wherever our army has been there remain no slaves, and the Proclamation will not free them where we don't go.

No matter how counter-intuitive it may seem, basic research has proven over and over to be the lifeline of practical advances in medicine.

Companies must balance their options among the most desirable and most practical strategies. While R&D may develop a next-generation brand, companies risk early loss of critical revenue streams if they do not pursue a range of secondary and tertiary options.

A two-year suspension for a first offense would, as a practical matter, end the player's career in the vast majority of circumstances.

Aikido is more practical in comparison to other Karate classes where you learn to hurt people. We learn to use attacker's own strengths against them.

As a practical matter, I don't think the president has left us with any choice, ... Meet the Press.

As a practical matter, it has proven difficult to either reform or abolish the CIA, ... The logical alternative may be to simply create an entirely new agency.

As a practical matter, it just is easier to get to the three- or 30-minute jobs, rather than the ones that you know will take an hour, or a day, or more.

As a practical matter, prosecutors don't go to grand juries for a misdemeanor.

As a practical matter ... she now knows the charges against her. The important thing is, now she has not been terminated.

As a practical matter, the case is over.

As a practical matter, the options have, for the moment, substantially diminished value, if any.

As a practical matter, these poor folks don't have the resources to go back to our city just like they didn't have the resources to get out of our city. So we won't get all those folks back. That's just a fact. It's not what I want, it's just a fact.

As a practical matter, they think that the new members of the parliament will be more amenable to pass these laws than the present one. They're comfortable that it will pass then. But they do not rule it out now.

As a practical matter, we all do have opinions of whether someone famous has done something wrong or not. But presumption of innocence has nothing to do with what goes on outside the courtroom.

As a practical matter ... we don't believe that the dispatch of armed U.N. peacekeepers before August 30 is possible at this point.

As both a legal and practical matter, ... he doesn't know what's in them and has never given any direction to sell or acquire assets.

although the NTSB has not yet determined the cause of this tragic accident, and we know of no evidence that these parts played any role in the accident, the FAA is ordering these changes to ensure that we take every practical step to ensure the continued safety of the Boeing 747.

They saw him as the class clown. He was tall and scrawny and always playing practical jokes on teachers. The girls laughed at him but never fancied him.

They seem to have an intention and desire to solve the issue but when it comes down to practical steps they're not ready to act.

This guy was my No. 1 target, ... Bin Laden is, of course, more important symbolically, but in terms of practical day-to-day operations ... this is the guy you want.

Quite simply, the strong Pacific flow is continuing to inhibit any major intrusions of Arctic air into the lower 48. The winter is rapidly coming to an end for all practical purposes.

Our approach is simple: offer practical deposit and credit solutions along with sound financial advice as a way to help a business run more effectively. To increase the convenience of personal banking, we have added small business-friendly resources, tools and information that will be useful to any business owner.

Practical acts are such as, through the medium of our bodily movements, alter the object or its relation to ourselves or to other subjects.

Every year our main goal is to focus on not only the beauty and early spring feel, but more importantly some type of practical use applications.

There's more smiles, there's more laughter, there's more buffoonery on his part and coming back at him, ... We got off to good start this season, which obviously helps, and we see practical jokes and some of the adolescent things maybe he hadn't done for a while.

There's no real practical way to follow that suggestion, ... That's a dodge. It is a failure to accept responsibility for the fundamental fact that his companies have a business model predicated on theft. They need to deal with that fundamental question.

The practical answer there is no. Bloomingdale's serves a customer that lends itself to a different kind of market. I don't think that's a realistic possibility.

The practical case for manned spacef light gets ever-weaker with each advance in robots and miniaturisation - indeed, as a scientist or practical man, I see little purpose in sending people into space at all. But as a human being, I'm an enthusiast for manned missions.

The practical effect is for us to sit down with the state and try to resolve the exact amount of damages for everybody.

The practical implication of this environment is that young Canadians must start saving very early in their lives, compared to previous generations in order to realize the same inflation-adjusted return on their savings. Our findings suggest this is not happening.

The practical result of the court's decision is that the president and all other government officials will be less likely to receive full and frank advice about their official obligations and duties from government attorneys,

Why SCOTT Tissue? We've been bringing consumers common-sense solutions for more than a century. None of us like it when true toilet terror strikes and, by providing practical solutions to avoid clogs, we help ourselves and our plumbing community.

We think the jury is out whether there will be any practical impact on video markets and, in any case, we don?t see any major impact anytime soon.

With a practical joke, you do one of two things. You convince people that something exists when it doesn't, or you convince people that something doesn't exist when it does.

We also hope the Iran side, the EU side can ... adopt concrete and practical steps to break the deadlock so as to quickly resume their dialogue, consultation and negotiations.

This will have no practical or positive effect on the city's well being.

This series takes a laugh-and-learn approach to learning something new about your body, as well as something practical that you never thought you could do.

We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same

We believe it's hard to change people's habits and that the most practical solution is to improve the food they do eat. With a burger, for example, you would simply remove some of the fat and replace it with the seaweed extract, which is an entirely natural product from a sustainable resource. You'd have a healthier burger and it's unlikely to taste any different.

I valued the biblical foundation I got at Biola. I was able to take classes that strengthened my faith and helped me to better understand what I believe and how to, in a practical way, apply my faith in real-world situations.

The White House has understandably been interested in an early confirmation process ... that is not, in my judgment, practical or realistic.

This event is a practical opportunity for people to take part and take ownership of their local areas,

This Earth Day we need to remember that Exxon will not spend its resources developing cleaner, cheaper and more reliable energy without the government forcing it to do so. Californians at least will have a chance to vote on a November ballot measure that takes back oil companies' windfall profits for a state fund that will provide practical incentives to make alternative fuel vehicles more available and affordable. We cannot rely on oil companies to create cheaper and cleaner fuels. American oil companies like Exxon will never want us to use less oil.

The wealth of agreements we will be signing together on September 5 bears witness to the increasing levels of practical cooperation.

This is practical knowledge needed to run a recording studio. It's about recording music and executing a live performance from a technological standpoint.

This is the busiest time for national leaders. What I am going to do on this occasion are practical things, which may bring greater benefits to Hong Kong people and bring new opportunities for economic development, and help further modernization of the nation as a whole.

This is something that sounds pretty easy and obvious on the surface. But there are some very significant practical problems that rule it out.

They were doing exactly what I'm doing now, but most were in Pennsylvania, California or Texas. A lot of people don't realize that all these old jeeps are out there. They only go 45 mph, and are not practical to go on the road with, but they're great for driving in the mud, or up a mountain. There are still a lot to be found in people's barns or left in fields.

You need to be practical in what is enforced. Some aspects are going to be difficult to enforce. I think private office businesses should be able to smoke if they want to.

This is a win-win situation for both. It is not a question of winning or losing. This is a good practical step forward.

This is a terrific opportunity for people in Northam to get some practical help to manage daily living with chronic disease

This is an opportunity to make something extremely practical and logical, which at the same time tries to inspire the imagination in a way that can happen only here, in New York Harbor.

This is a revolutionary way to learn because you're not just reading, you're hearing people talk to you. It's theoretical poker reinforced by practical play. We teach a theory and go in and talk about strategy. You learn by example. That's the uniqueness or advantage we provide.

In many ways one sounds so heartless in dealing with this, but we have to have a practical approach, ... We're not going to solve prostitution, not by passing laws, and after 15 years that's the bottom line. But when we put these prohibitions in place, it works. If we hit it really hard, they'll just go someplace else.

In its first 30 years of existence, up to the mid 1970s, the practical applications of game theory were very limited, probably as a result of excessive preoccupation by game theorists with cooperative solution concepts.

In all practical purposes there hasn't been an artist that has only broken online, there has always been some sort of other tie-in.

The NATO-Russia council has become an effective forum for ... practical cooperation,

India is willing to facilitate such movements but we await word from Pakistan about the practical details of implementing this intention.

I know there was uproar when I moved out of my fairy skirt, as I used to call it, into my trousers. That was purely for practical reasons!

I mean, I think I admire my wife the most out of anyone. She's really smart, in a practical way that I don't have. We balance each other.

In an age when stagecraft, gauzy themes, and sound-bites have too often been substituted for leadership, Bill Clinton as a candidate made it essential to campaigning to take the specifics of governance seriously. Practical solutions were 'in;' ideology was 'out.'

Industry leaders have used best practices and supporting technologies to reduce supply costs, mitigate risk, and gain competitive advantage. New techniques and technology approaches make these practices and results accessible to a broader number of companies. The Supply Management 2.0 series provides a unique forum for senior executives to exchange practical approaches to speed and sustain supply management results.

If permitted to stand, the practical impact of such a ruling would have devastating consequences for prosecutions of child predators who troll the Internet looking for children to entice and ultimately harm,

I'll be talking a lot about the book, which I think has something for everybody from beginner to expert. I've tried to include practical information, such as how to fish an estuary or grass flat, so people will walk away with something they can use.

I'm looking -- from the Americans, from the Europeans, from the quartet -- for real practical support, not by words. I want to change the situation on the ground for the Palestinian people,

If you own expensive or rare items, Scheduled Personal Property coverage is a practical way to protect your investment and achieve peace of mind. The best part about this type of coverage is that it offers all-risk protection, which means customers are insured for all different types of perils, including loss of the stone, a chip in the diamond, misplacing the item, and so on. Unless the peril is specifically mentioned in the policy as being excluded, then the item is covered.

If you don't spend the money in exactly the way you said you would, you have to give back all the money. As a practical matter, if you get into that kind of situation ... I don't want to speculate.

I'm far from immune to the American, perhaps historically male, prejudice toward practical and physical competence; I hope I've also considered that prejudice enough to have some distance from it.

I'm doing some of the practical things you need to do to keep that option open.

Taking the time to polish a pun or fine-tune a practical joke is a way of saying, 'I'm thinking about you and I want to please you.'

The basic direction will remain unchanged, which is the development of market relations, but from the point of view of practice, of implementing practical measures, we must expect serious changes in the former government's course.

Students must also pass a practical skills examination demonstrating that they are mentally and physically prepared for the challenges that lie ahead.

Symcor's decision is the most recent acknowledgement of CSC's experience and practical innovation. With one of the largest inventories of financial services software in the world, CSC is continually finding ways to deliver improved business results for its clients.

The Big Moo is a book that's not just about breaking all the rules -- it's about changing the game entirely. We want to help people start a movement in their organization -- to stop trying to be perfect and start being remarkable. The goal is to make the book's wisdom, its practical application, its fun, and its authors accessible, while raising millions for charity.

not only theoretical reform, not only academic reform, but actual practical reform.

This is just our way of showing the love of God in a real-life practical way. I call it putting feet on our faith.

This is a verdict in favor of no one and it will not have any practical impact on Philip Morris and its employees,

Don makes this fun and easy to read but has great ideas for practical usage.

The No. 1 benefit of this is they get a practical use of what they've been doing the last two years. And they get to work together as a team.

The non-compete clause, depending on how it's worded, could be the most potentially damaging from a practical standpoint. Especially today, when people move from job to job. Try to negotiate so it's taken out or limited so it's not a tremendous burden on you.

Consumers depend on About.com for practical solutions to everyday problems. About.com has been at the forefront of the growing demand for online video content, which continues to be a focal point. It works not only to enhance the visitor experience, but to deliver advertisers vivid and engaging sponsorship opportunities within a richer online environment.

Exactly how that works, what the practical impact on immediate trade will be, we're still trying to find out. We certainly want it resolved as soon as possible.

The message of the Holocaust was 'Never again,' and for that message to have practical effect on the world community it has to be inclusive. We can never have double standards in terms of human life.