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A commentary in the Shanghai Daily points out that innovation doesn't mean piles of documents.

After Hurricane Katrina interrupted routine delivery, temporary mail service points were set up.

Are such accusations simply efforts to score political points for one's party?

Chris Koch, who teaches "History of Broadcast Journalism" at Montgomery Community College in Rockville, Maryland, points out that reporting is about investigation rather than the memorization of minute details.

However, as Amy Edmondson of Harvard points out, organisations increasingly use "team" as a verb rather than a noun: they form teams for specific purposes and then quickly disband them.

However, he points out that many countries have not done so.

They have special set menus for the week, usually in spring, at a number of different price points.

Kapur points out that while the model adopted by many teachers when introducing students to new knowledge―providing lots of structure and guidance early on, until the students show that they can do it on their own―makes intuitive sense, it may not be the best way to promote learning.

As they walk around a playground or other area, text, video or audio pops up at various points to help them try to figure out why aliens were in the schoolyard.

Carr points out, that after spending time in quiet rural settings, subjects "exhibit greater attentiveness, stronger memory and generally improved cognition.

In its defence, Google points out that it displays only small segments of books that are in copyright– arguing that such displays are "fair use".

Google's business model has always been to provide information for free, and sell advertising on the basis of the traffic this generates," points out James Grimmelmann, associate professor at New York Law School

No one knows the precise use Google will make of the intellectual property it has gained by scanning the world's library books, and the truth, as Gleick, an American science writer and member of the Authors Guild, points out, is that the company probably doesn't even know itself.

Nearby Colby College logged an 18-point difference between white and black graduates in 2007 and 25 points in 2006.

John Rother, the AARP's head of policy and strategy, points to studies showing that other things being equal, people who remain at work have lower death rates than their retired peers.

The fine points of the law are decided by the courts and by acceptable common practice overtime.

By making gestures at strategic points.

After outlining the main points she would cover, she assured the audience that she would be happy to answer questions at the end of her presentation.

He uses lots of gestures to help make his points clear

Write down any points where he could improve.

All of those specialized bulbs led to the building of specialized light fixtures, from the desk lamp you study by, to the ugly but beloved hand-painted Chinese lamp you inherited from your grandmother, to the ceiling fixture in your closet, to the light i

As lighting expert Howard Brandston points out, " Generally, there are no bad light sources, only bad applications. "

As Vaclav Smil points out, "All the forecasts, plans, and anticipations cited above have failed so miserably because their authors and promoters thought the transitions they hoped to implement would proceed unlike all previous energy transitions, and that

He points to a classic 2004 study in which psychologists at Dartmouth College and Harvard University used functional MRI to track brain activity in 17 young men as they listened to descriptions of people while concentrating on either socially relevant cue

The finding points to longstanding evidence that fiber may reduce circulating female hormone levels, which could explain the reduced risk.

The World Meteorological Organization points to Cuba and Bangladesh as examples of countries that have successfully reduced the loss of life caused by natural disasters by taking preventive action.

A line graph looks similar to a bar graph, but instead of bars, it plots points and connects them with a line.

And if you have your lecture notes or the article in hand, you and the professor will be able to examine specific points that are confusing to you, rather than just talking in a general way about the contents.

Friedman points out that the green economy is a chance to keep American strength.

Here are some important points that you may find helpful.

If you don't do this, I will take away points from your grade.

Instead of introducing scientific theories, he tells a story, within which he tries to make his points, perhaps in order to keep the reader's attention.

Points were awarded for part-time jobs, housework, effort in school, and ability to deal with problems.

The intelligent transport team at newcastle university have turned an electric car into a mobile laboratory named "drivelab" in order to understand the challenges faced by older drivers and to discover where the key stress points are.

To read a line graph, it's important to focus on the points of intersection rather than the line segments between the points.

You must keep these points in mind while setting your goals.

Dr Kroo points out that the aircraft could be separated by several nautical miles, and would not be in the intimate groupings favoured by display teams like the Red Arrows.

Dr simonsohn found if the score of the previous candidate in a daily series of interviewees was 0.75 points or more higher than that of the one before that, then the score for the next applicant would drop by an average of 0.075 points.

Ideally, different kinds of reading inform each other, and act as useful reference points for and counterbalances to one another.

John Donahue at Harvard's Kennedy School points out that the norms of culture in Western civil services suit those who want to stay put but is bad for high achievers.

Julie Park of Grand Rapids Community College points to another key to luring millennials into manufacturing, a work/life balance.

Mark Baldassare of the Public Policy Institute of California points out that much of the state's budget is patrolled by unions.

The scores were then used in conjunction with an applicant's score on the Graduate Management Admission Test, or GMAT, a standardised exam which is marked out of 800 points, to make a decision on whether to accept him or her.

These pauses typically occur at about three per second, and the eyes then jump to another spot, until several important points in the image are registered like a series of snapshots.

These terms are also intended to infuse work with meaning—and, as Rakesh Khurana, another professor, points out, increase allegiance to the firm.

They often include a certain amount of digging to test for buried materials at selected points across a landscape.

This could be no more than a passing literary craze, but it also points to a broader truth about how we now approach the past: less concerned with learning from forefathers and more interested in feeling their pain.

This might sound small, but to undo the effects of such a decrease a candidate would need 30 more GMAT points than would otherwise have been necessary.

tim Harford, author of Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives, points to a study in the early 1980s that divided undergraduates into two groups: some were advised to set out monthly goals and study activities; others were told to plan activit