Loma's aptitude for Muay Thai is nothing short of extraordinary.
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He had a natural aptitude for subversion and distinctive utterance.
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They found I had a high administrative and leadership aptitude.
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" Or: "With your massive aptitude / What are you thinking, dude?
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My second choice from the aptitude test was kindergarten teacher.
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Kaufman had a natural aptitude for subversion and distinctive utterance.
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Does it encourage students to take the military's aptitude exam?
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The bad guys show precious little aptitude for personal transformation.
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But being a chef requires more than aptitude and zeal.
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Despite the large budgets, American students ranked 36th in global aptitude.
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When I was a 5 years old, I showed mechanical aptitude.
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That assessment turned out to be the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT).
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Eyebrows arch theatrically, as if aptitude can be achieved through playacting.
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Keith, who graduated in 1985, showed an early aptitude for computers.
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What some call "naivety" is actually a sublime aptitude for distillation.
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Household tasks were divided up by aptitude or preference, not gender.
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Ali had twice failed Army aptitude tests during the Vietnam War.
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"We're looking at networks of creative brain function, the interplay of these networks and the role of aptitude," said Rex Jung, a professor of neurosurgery at the University of New Mexico who studies aptitude, intelligence and creativity.
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He soon found that he had an aptitude for creating interesting sounds.
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Still, we should be cautious before resorting to brain-only aptitude tests.
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But, reading aptitude and soccer skills don't guarantee a happy adult life.
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This cat has an aptitude for laying in your lap and purring.
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Schools are abandoning standardized testing, saying scores are imperfect measures of aptitude.
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And they may identify only a small band of intelligence and aptitude.
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Lynch and Shanahan loved his mechanics and aptitude and capacity for improvement.
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Mason, 8, is already showing his father's aptitude in math, he said.
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His aptitude landed him on Pro Football Focus's All-Pro first team.
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Executives at traditional organizations tend to equate years of service with aptitude.
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He says it's a response that signals a certain type of aptitude.
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I have no gift...very little interest and less aptitude for verse.
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Abbeel's team even uses children's toys to test BRETT's aptitude for problem solving.
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Oculus, meanwhile, defended Luckey's reputation as a young genius with great technical aptitude.
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But as Schmidt explained, our aptitude for problem solving played into our luck.
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We have noted before that Romney has a special aptitude for needling Trump.
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Did you feel like the interviewer's questions revealed your aptitude for the job?
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More troubling, the disparity persists even when controlling for precollege academic aptitude scores.
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His personal background doesn't necessarily hint at an aptitude for success in business.
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"There aren't even 500 people with the aptitude to inspect drugs," he said.
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Gail: On the other hand, Republicans seem to have no aptitude for comedy.
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The truth is, this gender gap is the result of expectations, not aptitude.
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He also took numerous closely-cropped portraits that show a strong compositional aptitude.
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Best friendship is a sign of social aptitude in children, especially young girls.
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His parents were math teachers, and he showed an early aptitude for numbers.
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Some heavy users scored below the curve on aptitude tests, others performed well.
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And by bringing a technology executive's aptitude for pioneering start-ups to soccer.
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A fan of Manchester United, he developed a passion and aptitude for soccer.
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All you need to know is I had absolutely zero aptitude for either.
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He frequently showed signs of leadership and an aptitude for mediation, she says.
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Those who knew him then said he showed an aptitude for public service.
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Well, that had an aptitude and an interest in sort of digital transformation.
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Ideally, our pupils graduate once they have shown a clear aptitude for forest survival.
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She felt that "Very Poor" just didn't seem to capture my lack of aptitude.
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To be precise, they're structured like the Academic Aptitude Exam, the SATs of Chile.
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But without the aptitude for it, Schwarzbeck chose to go the business school route.
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So, Alice uses her own aptitude for Cam Girl-ing to outwit Lola 2.0.
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In 2016 Nevada permitted slots that award greater winnings to players who demonstrate aptitude.
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Cream of the crop Andela's rigorous selection process starts with an online aptitude test.
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Students are often pushed into engineering by their parents, regardless of aptitude or preference.
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And with that, she rips up her aptitude test, ready for a new dream.
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They will require the kind of competent execution Trump has shown no aptitude for.
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He had originally been disqualified by a substandard score on a mental aptitude test.
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So how do you evaluate technical aptitude and critical thinking in the admissions process?
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What you learn is that people who have that aptitude are not that plentiful.
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But he was drawn to linguistics in part because of his aptitude for systematizing.
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Unfortunately, far too many others lack the moral aptitude and professional abilities to serve.
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In high school, a career aptitude test forecast his path as a funeral director.
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His aptitude for language acquisition made it easier to connect with the people there.
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She just happened to crush the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery test after high school.
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She also showed an aptitude for Mandarin and attended Stanford University's summer program for Mandarin.
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He tried to substitute attitude for aptitude, confidence for competence, and failed time and again.
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Her father and sister are engineers, and an aptitude for technology runs in the family.
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"I have a certain mechanical aptitude, and I don't mind talking to people," he said.
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We spotted she had the aptitude to do this work early when she joined ASD.
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Trump's team so far has shown aptitude at only one thing: leaking to the media.
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Inherent skill and aptitude are also important to study in relation to creativity, Jung noted.
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And different cats are trained differently: This cat has an aptitude for jumping or running.
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But that raised another question: Did heightened activity correspond to a greater aptitude for language?
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The HR chief explains that these skills show aptitude, which people from different backgrounds possess.
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Arizona Summit can't blame the aptitude of its students for its low bar passage rate.
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Having failed to show an aptitude for the family business, Freddy became an accomplished pilot.
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Her aptitude for cooking at the age of 12 became her escape from the rough neighborhood.
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Apparently a natural aptitude for making, selling and applying makeup runs in the Kardashian-Jenner family.
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Perhaps that detracts from the time that creators spend working within their aptitude or chosen field.
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Director Pierre Morel was impressed by Garner's aptitude for the physically strenuous scenes she filmed herself.
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Harley fell in love with the game and showed enough aptitude that he craved better competition.
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The tracks, together, are a further, out-of-album-cycle reminder of Hadreas' total creative aptitude.
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Everyone praised your athletic aptitude, but really, that athleticism was the perfect mask for disordered eating.
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It just shows a capacity and an aptitude that he understands the importance of calling games.
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Although he had no aptitude for drawing, he was starting to think about becoming an artist.
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In contrast, he first came on to U.M.B.C.'s radar because of his aptitude for science.
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The Scholastic Aptitude Test, first widely administered by the Educational Testing Service, is a classic example.
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In 1966, I met with our 7th-grade school counselor after taking a "career aptitude" test.
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Colbert said that after seeing the performance, he thinks Trump needs to take an aptitude test.
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My "gimmes" in today's puzzle were APTITUDE, NUTRIENTS, ELWOOD, ELIOT NESS and, of course, EX-PARROT.
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He showed an aptitude for death-penalty litigation, which is both emotionally taxing and technically demanding.
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His aptitude for processing those tidbits and applying them on the field has preserved his livelihood.
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Wullah (she Americanized the spelling of her first name later) showed an early aptitude for art.
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Ball, at least according to Walton, has shown an aptitude for blocking out any outside noise.
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Despite his achievements and obvious aptitude, George worries that he's not knowledgeable enough to lead effectively.
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Lee persuaded the employers, who were all white, to let her take the coding aptitude test.
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Beyond the runway, a number of shoots she's done have put her athletic aptitude on full display.
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Dad noticed his first son, Ronny, loved being around rehearsals, and had a natural aptitude for acting.
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" Even though she had an aptitude for the violin, she continues, "It's definitely not an easy instrument.
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"There are some drugs that might reinforce the aptitude and skill to drive in competition," he added.
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Yet that has not stopped some on the left from attacking Mr Buttigieg for his signature aptitude.
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I inherited her love and I like to think at least some aptitude in cooking and baking.
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Recently they opposed Google's firing of an engineer whose internal memo questioned women's aptitude for engineering jobs.
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They have massive teams of designers and engineers with unique combinations of aesthetics, aptitude, and technical skills.
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In the above photo, it's clear that one of Vitor Belfort's main strengths is his punching aptitude.
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I always lean to acting prowess first, but martial arts aptitude has to be a close second.
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"You don't survive as home secretary for six years without some form of aptitude," Mr. Baker said.
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And with great tech toys, an increase in STEM-related knowledge and aptitude is baked right in.
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Soon, however, Titch learns that his valet has a sharp mind, and hidden aptitude as an illustrator.
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I want certain highly adept people, people that understand weaponry, guns — if they really have that aptitude.
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"He doesn't have the aptitude or 'smarts' & is a poor public speaker & nervous mess," the president tweeted.
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They haven't had to pass anything in a long time, and they have no aptitude for governing.
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They have not, in recent years, been renowned for their stability or for their aptitude at basketball.
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Matches depend not just on an applicant's aptitude and skills but how far they live from the job.
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It's the kind of Chidi approach to ethics and moral aptitude, if you'll pardon a Good Place reference.
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Similar to himself, the students will possess a certain proficiency in mathematics and an aptitude for building things.
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Guy Ritchie's aptitude for raucous action sequences lends itself to "Aladdin", a fable about a mischievous street urchin.
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As a child, he showed great aptitude for chess, capable of beating students several grades ahead of him.
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In prison, my dad discovered an aptitude for drawing, and so after his release, he became a artist.
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Sergeant Peter Murphy said he's "got an aptitude" for really blasting demo walls and doors all to hell.
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Subsequently, it was renamed the Scholastic Assessment Test in recognition that the test measured achievement rather than aptitude.
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That is a level of aptitude nearly impossible to obtain in baseball, in which chaos theory runs rampant.
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But everybody who's arrived there has some combination of experience and aptitude that prepared them for the job.
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Despite their obvious aptitude for hospitality, both Clivaz and Isaacson came into the business from very different backgrounds.
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I felt like I had an aptitude for it, but more importantly, I had a passion for it.
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He'd previously built and sold Email Aptitude, a CRM and email agency, not an event or education business.
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Yet even that is an obstacle that could be overcome — if the president had any aptitude for leadership.
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The Packers have twice demonstrated an aptitude for diminishing Cousins, and their potential playoff opponents have undoubtedly noticed.
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Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban echoes this sentiment, noting that aptitude and effort are often what lead to passion.
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Through genetics and musical aptitude, the 42-year-old singer is a vocal doppelgänger for the Queen frontman.
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Since the '90s, Aitken has shown an aptitude for masterful video installations, which he doesn't fail to deliver here.
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One strong conclusion from the study is the importance of students' desire to succeed, regardless of their natural aptitude.
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Man's distinctiveness has been attributed to an aptitude for violence, exceptional intelligence or a preternatural ability to co-operate.
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Some of that, coding is important for people who have the aptitude, but not everybody should be a coder.
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When Rachel started working at Tictail, however, her aptitude for surviving (and stylishly thriving!) in the cold increased tenfold.
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"I don't have the same aptitude for the written word," Jason, 52, said in a statement released to PEOPLE.
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He was replaced by another newcomer: Ehud Barak, a decorated and respected general with little aptitude for political life.
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His game film is crammed with highlights demonstrating an aptitude for improvising in the truest sense of the word.
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"I seem to have been born with an aptitude for a way of life that was doomed," he writes.
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She showed musical aptitude as a child, and her father began training her, alongside her brother and Mr. Shankar.
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So how did we even arrive at this point where aptitude is inextricably tied to working long, concentrated hours?
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Mr. Maldonado struggled in school, but he showed an aptitude for electronics, making money fixing game consoles for neighbors.
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Excelling in school debate opens many academic and professional doors, conferring prestige and signaling exceptional verbal and logical aptitude.
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Whichever object the baby chooses first is thought to be a sign of where the child's professional aptitude lies.
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But the faculty now knew that their assumptions weren't true; they had been confusing previous experience with raw aptitude.
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The CFPS questionnaires are completed by tens of thousands of Chinese citizens, and include math and verbal aptitude assessments.
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Last summer, her parents noticed her artistic aptitude, while watching her choose colors very deliberately and for very specific purposes.
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The military also considers the "mental aptitude" of a soldier in a crisis and believes exercising this process builds confidence.
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Eno's aptitude for soundscapes and pushing instruments beyond their limitations continued to influence Roxy Music, especially Manzanera, after his departure.
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Ah, Thanksgiving, a day to put our cooking skills and our aptitude for non-violent conflict resolution to the test.
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The country has no endemic land predators, so many of its birds evolved without the typical avian aptitude for flight.
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Prisoners have a high degree of aptitude and their suffering and pain actually translate to the highest form of poetry.
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He scored so high on his recruitment aptitude tests that the Navy wanted to assign him to a nuclear submarine.
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In another overlap with "The Knick," Foster encourages a black laborer (McKinley Belcher III) who has an aptitude for medicine.
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This readjustment of ambitions and acceptance of its natural aptitude could be a good lesson for ailing unicorns to consider.
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I took an aptitude test in 7th grade and it said my best profession was a clown or a mime.
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I've leveraged my talent, my creative interests, my aptitude and training and my sense of adventure into a fulfilling career.
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Instead, they invite candidates to discuss engineering projects from previous jobs to assess a recruit's aptitude at collaborating with others.
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Nguyen had an aptitude for scholarship as a young man, so he went straight into a PhD program after college.
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Then afterwards, I found out, it is also the title of an Air Force pilot aptitude test for spatial reasoning.
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In his first weeks as president, Trump appeared to lack both the aptitude and the dedication required to do this.
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His mother nurtured his early aptitude for mathematics and, after the family moved to Moscow, he blossomed into a prodigy.
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But I had an aptitude for it I think, and I enjoyed reading about and I would read about it.
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Around then, his editor at The New Yorker suggested to him that he might have some aptitude for essay writing.
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At Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest, N.J., Ms. Kim had a natural aptitude for both academics and athletics.
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Yet within this group of übermenschen it is probably "software"—that is, aptitude learned through training—which makes the difference.
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New challenges never seemed to faze him, and Simons wanted to apply his mathematical aptitude to the world of finance.
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"It's not that women don't have the aptitude to take STEM subjects in the more egalitarian societies," explained one clip.
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Mustafa Kemal Pasha had already shown a great military aptitude during the war, particularly during the Turkish victory at Gallipoli.
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"There are very few places in the world where a person gets an opportunity just based on aptitude," said Norris.
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Do you worry that the median worker fifty years from now will have the aptitude to do jobs that need doing?
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It's designed to test your aptitude for five different skill sets, including concept organization, inductive reasoning, structural visualization, and numerical reasoning.
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It may seem stereotypical to associate glasses with intelligence and aptitude, but that's exactly what gives these bespectacled candidates their edge.
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"I don't have the same aptitude for the written word," Jason, 52, said in a statement released to PEOPLE last year.
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The Mirai investigation presented a unique opportunity to intercede with young defendants who had demonstrated a uniquely strong aptitude with computers.
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" An excellent reason to go to a coding boot camp, says Welch, is if you have "an actual aptitude for coding.
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Ultimately, she turns to a career aptitude test, which, after many antics, ends up telling her to be a crossing guard.
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LinkedIn endorsements are a way for the people in your network to confirm your aptitude and experience within your professional field.
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Ultimately, you need talented people who possess the skills to do their jobs well or have the aptitude to acquire them.
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But our aptitude for managing the future is no stronger than our skill at making sense out of the past. ♦
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Many tech toys made for younger children are designed to be used screen-free yet still engender development of STEM aptitude.
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Unlike earlier terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda, ISIS has shown little aptitude for creating terror cells that infiltrate the West.
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Troops without a diploma are more likely to get a second chance if they do well on an Army aptitude test.
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In the second act of "Pilot," Kate tracks down Alice's lair through Wayne Enterprise's vast video network and pure detective aptitude.
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Mr. Trump has, so far, shown little interest in or aptitude for the kind of effort that gets legislation through Congress.
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Someone suggested having recreational skiers run it, during the TV broadcast, to convey, to the viewing public, the discrepancy in aptitude.
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Job candidates also generally go through psychological and aptitude tests with airlines to assess critical thinking and decision-making under pressure.
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So they show the world, posing for pictures with him and fanning out on TV to proclaim their ardor and aptitude.
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"I've had men in geoengineering say to me that there are biological differences in aptitude towards science and technology," she says.
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Others commanded quiet authority while dressed in hoodies and jeans, leading teams of brogrammers by relying more on aptitude than attitude.
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Analysts can often be developed from individuals who show passion and aptitude for security and come from IT administration or system support.
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Martin provided another counterweight, discussing the tactics of his beloved Seahawks over a beer and mocking his sons' lack of sporting aptitude.
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The two discuss how Sonny wasn't able to take the aptitude test, and Angela finally takes pity on him and offers help.
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They advertise on Craigslist, on social media and in local workforce training centers, and they give the people they find aptitude tests.
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Jordan has both an aptitude for singing, and a plenitude of opinions, so you could say I heard his voice a lot.
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The Democrats' request is also ludicrous, because the documents in question would reveal nothing about Judge Kavanaugh's legal views or judicial aptitude.
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Zambra turns the structure and questions of the Chilean Academic Aptitude Test, finally phased out in 2003, into a new literary form.
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Now, with Republicans showing little aptitude for fixing an expensive, dysfunctional health system, more voters, doctors and politicians are walking through it.
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But behind the numbers, teams have noticed an aptitude for teaching and a capacity to impart professionalism and wisdom on younger players.
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However, the SAT started as an aptitude test, and was criticized for only showing whether students were good at taking the SAT.
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You can see how her father's aptitude for corporal ingenuity and control, from Butoh, translates into hers for dancing on the wall.
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Last season, the technology expanded to measure outfielders' defensive aptitude, including a defender's arm strength, first step, route efficiency and reaction time.
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But he'd flunked the Armed Forces Qualification Test, which measured arithmetic reasoning, word knowledge and paragraph comprehension, along with assorted aptitude tests.
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He showed his aptitude for spelling early, arranging block letters to form the word "horse" at age three, said his father, Krishna Nemmani.
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Mr Akyol also shares with writers like Karen Armstrong and Reza Aslan an aptitude for writing in an engaging way about arcane theology.
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"I see my brother, he has an aptitude for computers but he's stocking shelves at CVS," said, Dai, who started Daivergent in 2017.
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Chrissy Teigen displayed an incredible aptitude for sass on Twitter over the weekend, a story you've heard before but somehow never gets old.
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Suggest that your toddler think of slices of cake in terms of angles and she may well display an early aptitude for mathematics.
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As an aptitude test for espionage, Remini Protokoll hints at the ethical dilemmas individuals in the intelligence community juggle on a daily basis.
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And of course, there's absolutely nothing in Trump's career to suggest that he has any aptitude for or interest in genuine problem-solving.
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Instead, it is a visual lesson in how Black men can and should lean into the power and aptitude of their female peers.
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But this isn't even close to the first time Simpson has proven her natural aptitude to share the screen with a motor vehicle.
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The park is also launching two new spell-casting locations in Hogsmeade, where you use special interactive wands to test your magical aptitude.
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The very fact that anal sex's become trendy while butt plugs remain something of a joke speaks volumes about our collective anal aptitude.
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If McGregor's punches are so soft—Dove soap soft—then what does that make your aptitude to absorb such a supposedly soft blow?
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On defense, by contrast, basketball's smartest analytical minds have yet to come up with a useful, ubiquitous way to measure on-court aptitude.
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The Iron Fist actor doesn't have an aptitude for the flashy stuff, so it would be cool if the Nightwing actor DOES. pic.twitter.
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A clean, objective measure of scholastic aptitude would untether gifted students from the context assigned to them by the accidents of their births.
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Meanwhile, the large number of current and former military members will offer a referendum on each candidate's aptitude to be commander in chief.
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" Hiro Murai told me that Glover's aptitude could be galling: "The day before Donald directed, he said, 'Hey, do you have any tips?
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That was for Congress a minor issue; the argument put forth by the majority was that she has lost the aptitude to govern.
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Future's aptitude for creating music to party and/or cry to often overshadows one of this other fortes: making music to motivate you.
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With an obvious aptitude for the demands of a professional kitchen, I ask Oforiwaa if she has ever considered cooking as a career.
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He started his education at a village school that met under a tree and quickly demonstrated an aptitude for science, tempered with humility.
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All of the champion wordsmiths had more in common than an aptitude for spelling: Six of the eight used the same coaching program.
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The practice meant that women with equal or better aptitude were being passed over, with unfortunate consequences for Japanese medicine, Dr. Tsutsui wrote.
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Trump is not a leader but a reality TV personality with no aptitude for a job that requires calm, steady and intelligent leadership.
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"We like his aptitude for the game, the athleticism, and actually the ability to incorporate himself into a winning-type situation," Jackson said.
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Many schools encourage students to take the military's aptitude exam, the ASVAB, in the way students nationwide are pushed to take the SAT.
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Applicants must complete a standardized course that includes a placement at a safari camp, plus tests to evaluate English skills and scholastic aptitude.
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"His instincts, experience and aptitude will undoubtedly be welcomed in the communications department," said Sergio Gor, the deputy chief of staff for Sen.
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When his best friend became ill with Hodgkin lymphoma, he began to wonder if he could apply his scientific aptitude to cancer research.
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But if you have some aptitude at it, you can become great at it and then I promise you're going to be ... Right.
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They are an essential part of a positive feedback loop: When children demonstrate an aptitude at any activity, we reward them with more resources — equipment, private tutors, encouragement — to develop that aptitude; their genes enable them to translate those resources into improved performance, which we reward with even better resources, and the cycle continues until as adults they achieve exceptional career success.
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Testing or evaluating all students for giftedness could ensure that high-aptitude students from traditionally disadvantaged groups get access to the services they need.
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Compared to other career-aptitude tests, this one is one of the most popular; more than 8 million have taken it since its inception.
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But by assembling your friends, Facebook and Oculus can use their natural aptitude for social to make your virtual reality experiences something worth remembering.
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Exposing human data to algorithms exposes bias, and if we are considering the outputs rationally, we can use machine learning's aptitude for spotting anomalies.
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Honestly, I never really thought I'd be a comedian, but I did take an aptitude test in 7th grade, and this is 100% true.
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I say 'highly likely' rather than 'certain' because I have no scientific aptitude and remember well the dire predictions of most 'experts' about Y2K.
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A multi-billion industry Until 20063, the test was known as the Scholastic Aptitude Test: it was believed that the test measured innate ability.
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Had he shown even the faintest aptitude for oratory or ministering to the poor, he might never have determined the basic laws of heredity.
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As rivals such as Google and Facebook double down on augmented reality, Apple has made no public display of its aptitude in the field.
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For him to go against the norm and not only capitalize, butdominateoff of vulnerability is a testament to his aptitude for understanding what sells.
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This article originally appeared on VICE Sports UK. Mishka Shubaly discovered his aptitude for running the day after a brutal New York bar fight.
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Austin was even encouraged to take part in some of the drills, embarrassing the adult wrestling trainees who were unable to match his aptitude.
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Hand-selected by Wintour for her digital media aptitude, Barry has since reinvigorated the magazine within the confines of its new, strictly online medium.
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That year he first tried to join the Army, but failed the language section aptitude test by a few points, according to a post.
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Her uncanny aptitude was so compelling that the congregation knew that greatness and the Spirit rested in double portion on this fearless young woman.
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"You'll end up miserable if you don't like it, and the prospects aren't great if you don't have an aptitude for it," said Kensing.
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Many parents encourage specialization in a given sport in which their children, often at very young ages, seem to show an interest or aptitude.
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Despite the widespread media narrative, the impediments to Russo-American progress have less to do with Trump's aptitude for foreign policy than Russian realpolitik.
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Surrounded by these ascendant comedians, Mr. Shaffer said he did not feel funny himself but had an aptitude for regurgitating what other people said.
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The Army also granted more waivers for past marijuana use—usually a disqualifying offense—and accepted more recruits who scored poorly on aptitude tests.
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I admired that she owned her personality anyway—and that she never let her anxiety (or lack of aptitude) get the best of her.
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In Stirling's view, there's only a short window where it will be acceptable for a student to graduate without technology skills or without demonstrable aptitude.
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The pair then head to a shelter in search of dogs with the right attitude and aptitude to provide whatever specific service they're looking for.
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In theory, the game could also be used to prequalify candidates who have an aptitude for the skills necessary to run a successful hotel restaurant.
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These are traits the president has shown neither an aptitude for nor an interest in, and many of his failures in office reflect these omissions.
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Research on why women at Harvard disproportionately give up economics after introductory courses also attributed only a small part of the effect to mathematical aptitude.
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Zabihian was renting a $600/month apartment from someone who had known Parsa's grandfather and introduced him to the family, thanks to Zabihian's computer aptitude.
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They claim their solution puts this ability to create a virtual machine within the reach of just about anyone, even someone with little technical aptitude.
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He appreciated the splendors of the natural world and mooned over pretty girls but otherwise showed little aptitude or interest for anything outside of books.
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While the Wonderlic is a general aptitude test, the AIQ zeros in on intelligence and how fast a person can acquire, process and apply information.
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Set up as a Career Day in the 26th century, visiting Trekkies can answer aptitude questions and receive a Starfleet specialty based on their answers.
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Records show the Air Force made him a traffic management apprentice, a job that includes moving people and freight, and requires a minimal aptitude score.
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Lidge said he was convinced, based on Giles's development since then, that he has the skill and aptitude to continue evolving the pitch they share.
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Edhi drivers receive a few days of basic instruction, and those who display an aptitude later get more specialized training on an ad hoc basis.
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He analyzes the technical aspects, like Sullivan's combination-blocking or Saffold's square hips on running plays or Havenstein's aptitude at moving the front-side defender.
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Yankees Manager Aaron Boone said Andujar had a versatile swing, one that allows him to hit different type of pitchers, and the aptitude to adjust.
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They are as confident in their ability to cover the punt as they are in Hekker's aptitude for punting it where it needs to go.
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In the wake of his death, Mr. Moi has been described as compassionate, a jovial leader and a "disciplinarian" with an aptitude for problem-solving.
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Mr. Albers, noting his aptitude for three-dimensional design, asked him to help Fuller by constructing geometrical models for him to use in his lectures.
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Duke Power, a case brought by a group of African-American power plant employees who challenged the use of irrelevant aptitude tests to award promotions.
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Because of his aptitude for deduction and his intellectual doggedness, he'd been assigned to counterintelligence within a year after coming to the FBI in 1995.
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Managers began picking coders less on the basis of aptitude and more on how well they fit a personality type: the acerbic, aloof male nerd.
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Salary potential shouldn't be the sole thing that attracts you to a major in college — things like passion, interest, and aptitude should also be considered.
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The SAT is rooted in aptitude testing and is known for its "trickiness," as educators say, like partly correct or plausible but wrong choices on answers.
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On the other hand, successful professionals often have to work hard as a signal of their ability to their bosses, who cannot observe their aptitude directly.
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Researchers also got GPA data on each participant from college and university officials and results from the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) exams used for college admission.
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The Jets' chances of disrupting New England's divisional supremacy, of contending season after season, depend on Darnold's progress and aptitude for maximizing the talent around him.
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It is not currently using "public" cloud platforms such as Amazon's, where hardware is shared by multiple users who require technological aptitude to use it securely.
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The quality of being lonely in a crowded city is a particular one—it can feel like a failure of social aptitude, or an individual imbalance.
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When the floof reported for duty, the Queensland Police Service Dog Squad didn't think Gavel displayed the "necessary aptitude" for the world of canine crime-fighting.
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But his handlers there decided he was too friendly and did not have the "necessary aptitude for a life on the front line," BBC News reports.
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" Following Dimon's comments last week, Trump tweeted that the JP Morgan Chase executive "doesn't have the aptitude or 'smarts' & is a poor public speaker & nervous mess.
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She has an aptitude for and an interest in science and technology, but Silicon Valley feels worlds away from her small town in the high desert.
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Those of us who lack the inclination and aptitude for the gladiatorial combat that is American politics don't find much attraction in handicapping future presidential races.
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In place of parent choice, new regulations would be established to somehow predetermine every student's aptitude and fitness for online schools before admission would be allowed.
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But as impressive as Judge's numbers are, Dodgers' rookie Cody Bellinger is debatably showing an even greater aptitude for slugging with the best in the world.
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Unfortunately, aptitude for hobnobbing with finance executives at soirees in the Hamptons, Beverly Hills, and Martha's Vineyard proved not to be the most formidable electoral strategy.
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He had already aced the military aptitude test, and organized the stack of medical records required to show he was stable and healthy enough to serve.
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When I asked how the completion rate could be so high, the head of training explained that it is because of aptitude testing at the start.
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But Trump has never shown any real interest or aptitude for his job, something that used to loom large as an alarming aspect of his administration.
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Cale exhibited an aptitude for composition on the viola and the piano, and left Wales to take music courses at the University of London's Goldsmiths College.
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A Latin term for "from the beginning," it means that airlines select people with an aptitude and personality for the cockpit and teach them everything else.
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Larry Fitzgerald looked cooked last year, but a move to the slot has uncovered remaining aptitude, and his 109 catches this season are a career high.
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Eventually he studied it at A-Level along with English and Fine Art, where he discovered he was born with a natural aptitude for drawing and painting.
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She was surprised to learn only two of the eight kids in her daughter's fourth grade class identified as having a significant aptitude for math were girls.
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Has there been a prior event in which a candidate has so completely and remarkably demonstrated his unfitness for the presidency, in character, temperament, preparation and aptitude?
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It was in the forces that Benn took up boxing, finding an immense aptitude for the sport, as well as a new sense of purpose and direction.
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For instance, "[the AI program] tells me my child has a tendency to be very mathematically oriented, but she also shows an aptitude for drawing," Qualls says.
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He is in the position he is in because of his pre-existing relationship to Trump, not necessarily because he has shown a particular aptitude for politics.
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The illusion of my teaching aptitude was shattered around my fourth shift when Walter showed up again for the same lesson, having forgotten everything I'd taught him.
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At an hourlong meeting on school safety with 10 state and local officials, Trump said armed teachers with an aptitude for guns would deter would-be shooters.
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And through those discussions, the aptitude and skills that he is going to bring to the board, he is going to be an ambassador for the brand.
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But that aptitude for changing the DNA of T cells is also exactly what made HIV attractive as a delivery system for a CAR-T's genetic blueprints.
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While octopuses started following a different evolutionary track than humans hundreds of millions of years ago, they still show a great aptitude for learning and problem-solving.
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It's one of the easiest ways to discover your interest (not to mention aptitude) for a given topic, and could even be the résumé booster you need.
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Because so many new draftees were flooding into the armed forces, psychologists had begun to devise aptitude tests that would find the perfect job for every soldier.
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Love showed renewed aptitude on the offensive glass this season, grabbing more offensive boards per 100 possessions than in either of his previous two years on Cleveland.
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Chosen for their aptitude in such subjects as math, English, history, foreign languages and astronomy, the women were invited to meet one-on-one with senior professors.
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The "more meritocracy" argument against both legacies and racial quotas implicitly assumes that aptitude — some elixir of I.Q. and work ethic — is what our elite primarily lacks.
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If a potential constructor has "patience, tenacity and [an aptitude for] lateral thinking," they have what they need to become a good puzzle maker, says Mr. Nediger.
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Divide it into sections and it references anatomy while evoking sexuality; study it as a singular form and it denotes vital personhood, resistance, independence, and material aptitude.
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Only after World War II, when he was studying architecture on the G.I. Bill at the University of Southern California, did he discover an aptitude for design.
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Although she received her bachelor's degree in science and philosophy from the Collège Sévigné in 1925, the younger Ms. Curie's real aptitude was in music and writing.
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Sutton feels insecure about still being an assistant, but she has an obvious aptitude for fashion design and a boss who recognizes his diamond in the rough.
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"The problem with banker Jamie Dimon running for President is that he doesn't have the aptitude or 'smarts' & is a poor public speaker & nervous mess," Trump said.
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"I'll tell you what's impressive for his age: his makeup, his poise, his competitiveness, and what I'm learning, his aptitude," said Tommy Phelps, the RailRiders pitching coach.
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During the course of the program, which includes aptitude testing with tools such as Gallup's StrengthsFinder, some of the participants discover that they are not technology innovators.
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For Ella, that means the prospect of re-enrolling in her home school after a year of cancer treatments with a newfound passion, and aptitude, for math.
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"I'll tell you what's impressive for his age: his makeup, his poise, his competitiveness, and what I'm learning, his aptitude," said Tommy Phelps, the RailRiders pitching coach.
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But when they're unable to pay William's school tuition, the boy — whose aptitude for fixing small appliances is already evident — takes to the library to teach himself.
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What drove my father to excel was not his Jewishness, but rather his experience growing up during the Depression, his natural aptitude and a passion for economics.
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LeBron James' son, Bronny James, has been balling out for Sierra Canyon this year, but he's not the only James kid with his dad's aptitude on the court.
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The media is shrinking, and to squeeze oneself in needs a leg up: a connection, an uncommon aptitude, or the willingness to do things other people simply aren't.
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A simple model of countries' aptitude for football, which weighs things like wealth and interest in the game, suggests that America ought to be doing better (see article).
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As for Kunxun, she's just entered training and supposedly, if you believe state media, has shown "good aptitude" on tests for sniffing, detecting, and adapting to unfamiliar environments.
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Once described ad nauseum as "ramshackle", Tell Me How You Really Feel shows off the group's joint dexterity, and flaunts an aptitude for sweaty solos and tense codas.
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Later that year, Suzy was at a doctor's appointment when the doctor asked her to take a series of impromptu cognitive and aptitude tests right then and there.
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TeamApt, whose name is derivative of aptitude, bootstrapped its way to its Series A by generating revenue project to project working for Nigerian companies, according to its CEO.
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TeamApt, whose name is derivative of aptitude, bootstrapped its way to its Series A by generating revenue project to project working for Nigerian companies, according to CEO Eniolorunda.
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Paige continued to show her aptitude for espionage, correctly gauging that they should wait for Alice to fully get over her anger before asking for the tape back.
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They include delicately rendered watercolors of flowers and lifelike drawings of women, as well as an oil painting, "Summer Landscape" (1888), that suggests an aptitude for rendering light.
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To succeed at a hard job, he has to work hard in ways and at tasks that he has, thus far, shown little aptitude for or interest in.
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I didn't want to do any of these, but Garage Mechanic — which had showed up on my aptitude-and-inclination test — did not seem to be on offer.
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He showed enough aptitude that he quit his supermarket job and moved to the United States 15 years ago to pursue his dreams of racing someday at Indy.
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Those who tested high for aptitude were routed into two top-secret code-breaking centers in the Washington area, one for the Army and one for the Navy.
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Moreover, the selection of a woman — after Dr. Summers's controversial suggestion that women might lack an aptitude for science and math — appeared to usher in a new era.
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To reach its goals in 2017, it increased the number of waivers for past marijuana use and allowed in more recruits who had done badly on aptitude tests.
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Nissans board of directors has narrowed a list of candidates in part by using a business school style-CEO aptitude test to measure candidates leadership quality, sources said.
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In an interview for this obituary in 2013, Mr. Johnson said he had developed his aptitude for accents while taking public transportation in Chicago as a young man.
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Her devotion to the Dark Lord and her aptitude for magic itself are both put to the test when she confronts the inherent misogyny of the witch world.
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Although the event's website had some slick production value that hinted at the possibility of organizational aptitude, fewer than 20 people actually participated IRL, by my own count.
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Jess showed particular aptitude for setting up a fight that would be exciting not only in the U.S., but also in France and England, where Jeannette was a favorite.
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Nonetheless, for those with a vape pen, access to an online drugs forum, and an aptitude for (risky) experimentation, the possibilities to vape pretty much anything are wide open.
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It provides employers with a dossier that sums up a graduate's aptitude and potential in a few pages and numbers, with two or three Latin words maybe added on.
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But its central attraction is the exhibition itself, at its core a series of aptitude questions (no wrong answers) designed to identify your field of expertise on a starship.
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Based on above-average aptitude test scores, he was picked to become a fusion analyst — an intelligence specialist trained to interpret and communicate the latest information on enemy tactics.
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Reyez' sound, energy and musical aptitude is one to aspire to, and she channels all of these to give her fans an emotionally-charged and remarkably memorable live show.
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Last month, Rich released his debut solo project, Know Me "King Wolf"—a 13-track album, out now on 4AM Records, that goes far to explain his production aptitude.
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Aninat, Tercerunquinto, and other emerging artists in the show demonstrate an aptitude for engaging with their environment in order to understand it, rather than simply make images of it.
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Students are selected at an early age for their aptitude and are groomed for the work, similar to the way young athletes or musicians are cultivated in other nations.
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The post with Celeste was one of several Bennet seemed to glide into with little training, thanks to his familial connections or college alumni networks, only to demonstrate aptitude.
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The problem with banker Jamie Dimon running for President is that he doesn't have the aptitude or "smarts" & is a poor public speaker & nervous mess - otherwise he is wonderful.
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What a black teacher more attuned to a black child's background, culture and language may recognize as evidence of exceptional aptitude or talent may go undetected by a white teacher.
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In bygone days, when university-bound American students sat a test of vocabulary as part of the Scholastic Aptitude Test, there was a purported shortcut: teach a few Latin prefixes.
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Brazil only functions when it has "a president with political experience and aptitude for dialogue", says Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida, a political scientist at the University of São Paulo.
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What Ms. Bee offered, Mr. Reilly said, was a recognizable, well-liked personality and a savvy perspective, as well as a proven aptitude for finding comedy in the everyday world.
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Years before the college counselor and the scholarship judge undermined and mocked Acevedo's potential, she'd already discovered her aptitude for science — along with her confidence — thanks to the Girl Scouts.
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Rather than establishing a rapport with your subject, the Q&A is reduced to a bunch of Type-As of varying aptitude fighting for time to impress an authority figure.
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They are selected based on their aptitude to complete the scientific and engineering objectives of those governmental organizations, and are also generally viewed as role models for their home countries.
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That left chess, and he roamed the city looking for competition, displaying enough aptitude that he won Leningrad's junior championship in 1946 and the Soviet Junior Championship a year later.
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Directing his first feature, Adam Randall (who wrote the screenplay with Gary Young) shows some aptitude for the tease and for maintaining a stranglehold on the movie's sourly cynical tone.
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Aptitude tests revealed a gift for languages, so Clizbe enrolled in intensive Vietnamese courses and then was shipped to the Philippines, where he spent three years monitoring Vietnamese radio communications.
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"It wasn't just that he had the aptitude; it was more that he had the intangibles," said Van Scoyoc, who introduced various changes to create more rhythm and bat speed.
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Failing initially to persuade Woese of his aptitude for that, Fox was banished back to the lab, set to the tasks of growing radioactive cells and extracting their ribosomal RNA.
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A majority of the country has viewed Mr. Trump from the start as a person of low character and limited aptitude for leadership, traits Mr. Cohen highlighted at exhaustive length.
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In the first sketches showing Beetle Bailey in uniform, this time with an Army cap covering his eyes, he took an aptitude test and asked what his specialty would be.
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At the end of their tour — about two and a half hours on average, curators predict — visitors get a sort of report card on their aptitude for various intelligence specialties.
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But it was an infatuation with a dancer at Tufts, he said, that landed him in class at the Cambridge School of Ballet, where a teacher instantly recognized his aptitude.
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The National College of Cybersecurity, developed by an industry nonprofit, is slated to open in 2018 -- and would select students based on aptitude, not academic record, according to the BBC.
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A man with more money than charm, and little aptitude for long-term relationships, may find the situation — boozy evenings of ingratiation and eye candy, on his tab — quite satisfactory.
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"They realized I had an aptitude for stones," she said, and as more stores opened and they needed more inventory, they had her create combinations of precious and semiprecious stones.
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" When protagonist Tris goes in for her faction testing, she discovers she is one of a select group of people who show an aptitude for multiple skills, making her "divergent.
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According to the airline, after a teacher sent a note explaining his aptitude for metal fabrication, he earned 50 cents an hour as an apprentice in the sheet metal shop.
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The president launched a series of insults at Dimon, describing him as a "poor public speaker" and "nervous mess" who doesn't have the "aptitude" or "smarts" to run for president.
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Obama praised Clinton's aptitude (a "true public servant"), conviction ("Hillary knows this is much bigger than her own desires and disappointments"), and resilience (she's "never quit on anything in her life").
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At the February 2017 World Government Summit in Dubai, Musk talked about the one interview question he believes reveals the most about a candidate's aptitude — though it's quite the multifaceted request.
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Though Gates showed an early aptitude for coding, he says he had to be hard on himself to improve his skills to the point where he was one of the best.
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The poems, which take the ring-around-the-rosy children's game as a starting point for an exploration of male-female relationships, show Atwood's early aptitude for the unflinching, visceral metaphor.
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Ortega might be sloppy in his fundamentals, but he shows an aptitude for the hurting business: looking for body shots constantly, working with elbows on the lead and on the counter.
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The fact that he became known as one of the better boxers in MMA in such a short length of time says a great deal about his aptitude and work ethic.
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Unable to rest my brain, I thought about N.F.L. players and the progressive loss of identity and mental aptitude common to those who experience consecutive concussions and C.T.E. (chronic traumatic encephalopathy).
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"To solve the skills shortage, we have to hire people who have the right aptitude, who have the right attitude, people who are curious, are willing to learn," Ms. Naidoo said.
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A former World Bank researcher with a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Columbia University, he began his career as an anticorruption crusader , but has since developed an aptitude for political survival.
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It is to say, however, that the United States continues to demonstrate an incredible aptitude for advancing commercial and national security space compared to either competitor; the opportunity shouldn't be wasted.
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But the way I look at writing is that for whatever reason, I was given — I didn't do anything to get it, but I was given a certain aptitude for writing.
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"At McKinsey … just like being a lawyer, you have to demonstrate incredible aptitude, focus, and determination (long hours, delivering everything that&aposs needed) to make it to partner level," Stokes said.
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In the trailer, Richard and his gang of misfits — male hoodie-clad spazzes with more coding aptitude than common sense — endure nosebleeds, fashion mishaps and awkward conversations with obstinate, wealthy assholes.
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It should fund high school students with an aptitude for STEM, provide scholarships for them to truly benefit from a college education, and condition that funding on four years of DOD service.
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"I don't have the same aptitude for the written word," he said, "but if I did, I can assure you that my tale would be about the most epic love story… ours."
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Anticipating evidence that may be offered through upcoming witnesses, a victim's ability as a singer may be remembered without playing a song, and another victim's aptitude for poetry without giving a reading.
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"I don't have the same aptitude for the written word," he says, "but if I did, I can assure you that my tale would be about the most epic love story… ours."
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Next, the lab with the highest pay-off score from another randomly selected group was allowed to reproduce, creating a new lab with a similar aptitude for creating real or bogus science.
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A whopping 85 percent of the newborns survive, immediately learning to walk and run and quickly becoming adept at what might be considered the defining aptitude of the species – following other wildebeests.
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As a world leader, with the technological aptitude and resource potential, we hope the United States continues to lead this transformation into clean energy, creating jobs and opportunities with great economic promise.
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These pages are evidence of her undiminished aptitude, even while her body was on the wane, to vigorously inhabit and investigate emotional spaces that shift and change shape as her sentences accrue.
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They were more likely to go to college, and to find a job that matched their intellect and aptitude, rather than following the islands' default career of catching fish and getting by.
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Whenever an N.F.L. team would call Allen to pump him for information, he would say the same thing: Tunsil was loyal and likable and, above all, had an aptitude for reading people.
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She added that the ideal Tepper MBA student is "curious, motivated, and inclusive," noting that two areas of the Tepper application that are important are quantitative aptitude and willingness to receive feedback.
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In the months before Marvel made the official casting announcement on June 23, 2015, he had been posting stunt videos spotlighting the physical aptitude that made him a top candidate for Peter.
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However you design the system of admissions, though, slots aren't going to be distributed solely according to some mixture of aptitude and effort — by what people tend to think of as merit.
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"He was a college player out of Virginia — an intelligent, athletic baseball player, high aptitude, can do a lot of things on the field, a shortstop by trade," Manager Dave Roberts said.
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But an aptitude for analytics isn't what distinguishes these managers from their predecessors, all of whom were at least conversant in the latest metrics, and it no longer differentiates the various franchises.
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In the meeting, Rometty intended to focus on discussing closing the "skills gap" and offering solutions to help citizens gain the technical aptitude necessary for some skilled jobs, IBM told The Hill.
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Many of them are already rejecting elite degrees listed on a resume in favor of candidates who can actually show their skills in action and demonstrate an aptitude for learning new ones.
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Freestyle belongs to Emma Blundell, a supermarket heiress who runs a large dressage stud farm in Yorkshire, and the young horse has already shown an unusual aptitude for the sport's advanced movements.
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While running her own paper conservation studio in Los Angeles, Ms. Volent began taking business courses at the University of California, Los Angeles, and realized that she had an aptitude for numbers.
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Being president is hard, and while it obviously has its share of fun, ego-gratifying moments, it also necessarily entails lots of somewhat tedious stuff that Trump clearly has no aptitude for.
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To better measure aptitude of applicants, online career marketplace Hired has acquired Py, which helps companies like Opendoor and Niantic identify talent with app-based interactive courses on Python, iOS development and more.
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"The problem with banker Jamie Dimon running for President is that he doesn't have the aptitude or "smarts" & is a poor public speaker & nervous mess - otherwise he is wonderful," Trump wrote on Twitter.
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Top stories included a revised bill for expanded health care, new guidelines for an upcoming college aptitude test, and a strike among producers and reporters at a local cable channel demanding editorial independence.
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The author of the memo, which questioned Google's diversity training and women's aptitude for coding, has since been fired from the company, and has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board.
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For the most part, the latest wave of propaganda casts Xi as all business, focusing on his dedication, his aptitude and his personal role in guiding China into a new stage of development.
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Now that Strahovski points out the similarity, the two characters' resemblance is apparent, beyond their blonde locks (especially before Cersei's hair was lopped off by those wretched nuns) and their aptitude for cruelty.
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Abdicating his responsibility as commander-in-chief, a task for which he has no aptitude, gives Trump more time to focus on what has been the prime concern of his presidency: self-enrichment.
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As robots and artificial intelligences come to increasingly control more aspects of our lives, one can't help but wonder if we place a little too much trust in the aptitude of the machines.
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These include standardized test scores — which are deeply flawed measures of college aptitude and predictors of college success — and the number of Advanced Placement classes that a student has taken in secondary school.
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In his books he has revealed a remarkable aptitude for inhabiting otherness and illuminating the world's darker corners, from post-Katrina New Orleans (in "Zeitoun") to southern Sudan (in "What Is the What").
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The Scholarship Aptitude Test (known by nearly everyone as simply the SAT) first emerged 93 years ago and quickly entrenched itself as a stressful but integral element of almost every student's academic portfolio.
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Of course, the Browns have been trying to do that since 2002 with no success—it's not exactly a clear and simple path, especially when a front office doesn't show much scouting aptitude.
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He's also engaged in some moderate stunt work, and has frequently shown aptitude for messing up both bad guys and inanimate objects as the title character of the BBC's excellent crime drama, Luther.
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While it's unlikely that I could have become a math whiz, it wasn't my aptitude for math that was an impediment; it was my belief that I had the impediment to begin with.
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But she also had an aptitude for art and made proficient copies of illustrations in the books she was reading, whether of European royalty or of crazed Romantic lovers wandering through the forest.
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They were postpunk — which is to say, more focused on attitude than aptitude — with a Generation X nihilism and malaise, and the clear message that anything, artistically, could be borrowed, stolen or sampled.
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He later realized that it was precisely his lack of aptitude for lab work that led him to pay such close attention to the intricate, mundane labor involved in the manufacture of objectivity.
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Obtained by NPR, the lawsuit alleges that both standardized tests are inherently biased and do not accurately measure a student's aptitude, making their usage in the application process unconstitutional under the California Constitution.
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His range, steadiness and turnover-hoarding aptitude at free safety have powered the Steelers' resurgence to such an extent that their fans might very well consider petitioning to rename the city after him.
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Davis's aptitude for boxing is inexorably linked to his troubled background: There is not much in the ring that can hurt him more than the tentacles of his city's drug trade already have.
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"But not having a politician's training does not mean he has no training," Trenin adds, noting Putin's aptitude for delivering different messages to different people and sounding "very convincing" to each in turn.
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Walla Walla's days as a top wine-producing region were a way off, but its agricultural aptitude could be found in the soup, as the chicken was freshly slaughtered on a fellow reveler's farm.
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Later, Nguyen tells me that one of her weaknesses coming in was mechanical aptitude, needing to learn what household tools are, what's in a tool box, something that seems unrelated to firefighting but isn't.
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She just happened to crush the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery test after high school, and her score on that exam (which is taken by all new recruits) qualified her to go into cyber.
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Girls in elementary school show equal interest and aptitude as boys when it comes to coding, and then they start to see subtle and not-so-subtle signals that technology is not for them.
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Parsa's father had immigrated to the United States before the revolution, building a reputation for his aptitude with technology, first as an employee and then as an entrepreneur launching several businesses in Los Angeles.
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Her aptitude for engineering mirrored that of her father's, but Brigitte's primary interest was in armor fabrication and defensive systems, unlike Torbjörn, who was world renowned (and perhaps infamous) for the weapons he created.
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But Colorado believes that the same quirks some analysts hone in on as warning signs also distract them from something they'd notice with a more conventional prospect: Tapia possesses a natural aptitude for hitting.
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He managed to get a drone to pick up a meal from a KFC drive-thru in Auckland, which we've all dreamt about but never had the guts — or well, the aptitude — to do.
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At M.I.T. he found he had no aptitude for engineering and, after he was expelled for plagiarizing a term paper, he went to Northwestern University, from which he graduated summa cum laude in 1947.
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With the exception of a few supporting players, like Esien and Guz Khan as Charlie's stoner buddy, that's a problem up and down the call sheet — reasonably talented performers with no aptitude for comedy.
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Koko, the gorilla whose apparent aptitude for sign language endeared her to fans around the world, died in her sleep on Tuesday morning in California, according to the Gorilla Foundation, which oversaw her care.
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Cameroonian Siblings Find a New Interest (Tennis) in a New Land The four Ntongas have shown a remarkable aptitude for tennis after stumbling upon the Leeds Center and New York Junior Tennis and Learning.
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But at the C.I.A., officials were furious at what they saw as a direct attack on the aptitude and professionalism of the roughly 1,000 agency personnel who were serving in Afghanistan at the time.
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Australia may be known for its laid-back outlook on life, but that hasn't dampened the country's entrepreneurial aptitude, creating exciting opportunities for workers looking to take the plunge into the start-up world.
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Casey encourages applicants to put more focus on their "aptitude for collaboration, team work, empathy, and leading others" because those are the qualities that make consultants successful, she told Business Insider in an email.
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To combat that image, manufacturers have been heavily recruiting teens out of vocational programs for machinist jobs that require some technical aptitude to program machinery to manufacture high-precision aircraft components and medical devices.
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"Many countries will need to have missile defense systems, particularly since the North Koreans have no particular aptitude for trajectories but know how to launch missiles with seeming impunity," the "Mad Money" host said.
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Cramer: How do you -- the president says the problem with banker Jamie Dimon running for president, is he doesn't have the aptitude or the smarts and is a poor public speaker and nervous mess.
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At a time of intense partisan rancor, it was a stark example of how McCain's spirit and aptitude for reaching across the aisle could still live on, even for brief moments like these. Rep.
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Vogt also displayed an aptitude for poaching talent; in September, Cruise hired Andrew Gray, a lead engineer on Tesla's autopilot software, as its VP, a move that made a splash in automotive robotics circles.
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In just 10 months in the program, the Ntongas have shown remarkable aptitude for the sport, particularly Pierre, the only boy, whom coaches believe has the opportunity to play tennis in college at least.
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Niederer made an excellent living by shipping coffee to Russia, and when Ivan's daughter showed a remarkable aptitude for tennis at 25 years old, Ivan asked Niederer for seed money to develop her career properly.
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In 2005 Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard University, got into trouble for suggesting that one reason for the scarcity of women among scientists at elite universities may be due to "issues of intrinsic aptitude".
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Famously, a number of prominent men like disgraced former CERN physicist Alessandro Strumia have argued that women aren't being discriminated against in science — they simply don't like it, or don't have the aptitude for it.
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But after a year of exercise and studying for the Armed Service Vocational Aptitude Battery test, Talbott had a sobering moment in July 20173, when he was back at his summer job, behind the wheel.
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They were the 1854 Northcote-Trevelyan report, which opened civil-service jobs to competitive examinations, and the Education Act of 1944, which decreed that children should be educated according to their "age, ability and aptitude".
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Mr. McCaslin, 49, has been a stalwart on the New York jazz scene for more than 20 years — an improviser with an aptitude for controlled abandon, often uncorking solos that feel both wild and cogent.
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Exposed widely in pop culture in the book Moneyball when it was relayed that Billy Beane had "The Good Face," the term signifies a vague discernment of maturity, confidence, and future aptitude in the sport.
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After an aptitude test suggests that she should be a crossing guard, she embarks on a college tour of New York that includes such gems as Famous Ray's Original College and Roy Cohn Community College.
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This raised valid concerns of how a student would be allowed to continue their aviation training of their academic institutions could not verify and document that the veteran possessed the aptitude to complete pilot training.
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It said some tasks in the police - it cited traffic duty - do not require special physical characteristics while even for those for which a physical aptitude is needed, tests could be less discriminatory against women.
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This present book, written in the format of a standardized test, is based on the national aptitude tests Chilean students take before applying to universities and poses a series of questions with no right answers.
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He notes that other models are quieter, more like riding on a road, and have better automated inclines, but they are all much more expensive and lack multifaceted aptitude in all three of these areas.
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Legal expertise and a facility with bankruptcy code is helpful, as well as technical aptitude for finding ways to clean up a balance sheet and shedding debt to revive an otherwise cash-flow positive business.
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Some combination of talents — dexterity, mechanical aptitude, precision, patience, a bit of the plumber, a bit of the electrician — made him good not just at experimental work but at creating the tools for such work.
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As part of an exposé on screen time, "60 Minutes" reported that heavy screen use was associated with lower scores on some aptitude tests, and to accelerated "cortical thinning" — a natural process — in some children.
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And the tension between legacy admissions and affirmative action and merit-based admissions is really a tension between three ways that a ruling class can be legitimated –— through intergenerational continuity, through representation and through aptitude.
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With Dignitas banking on Froggen farming into the mid game and using Ziggs' aptitude for tower destruction to force FlyQuest on the backfoot, FlyQuest's early game domination was simply too much for Dignitas to handle.
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They were postpunk — which is to say, more focused on attitude than aptitude — with a Generation X nihilism and malaise, as well as the clear message that anything, artistically, could be borrowed, stolen or sampled.
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The men who started the company, Lorenzo and Orson Fowler and Samuel Wells, were proponents of phrenology, a popular 19th-century belief that the shape of one's skull revealed characteristics like mental aptitude and personality.
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The rear game area contains a dedicated space for Ping-Pong, where a local enthusiast, Tim Titrud, regularly gathers his league players, who rate somewhere between Pips & Bounce and Paddle Palace in terms of aptitude.
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Top U.S. intel official Europe not taking advantage of terror tracking tools "Both of these strikes deprive ISIL of motivated foreign fighters who have displayed leadership aptitude," Warren said in response to a question from CNN.
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In Red Road and Fish Tank, Arnold demonstrated an aptitude for raw, ardent tales of people in search of themselves, but training her camera on the American Midwest brings a fresh sense of discovery and electricity.
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My decision to start freelancing began with my love for travel and my aptitude for writing (and a really bad breakup), but perhaps more importantly, it has a lot to do with my travel-hacking prowess.
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With his unusual aptitude, agility, language skills, and information-gathering experience, Berg became the OSS agent that Donovan designated to support the government's top-secret initiative to develop its first nuclear weapons, codenamed the Manhattan Project.
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Ed Talk Angela Duckworth was teaching math when she noticed something intriguing: The most successful students weren't always the ones who displayed a natural aptitude; rather, they displayed something she came to think of as grit.
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Mr. Krueger's aptitude for putting data to good use is on full display in the chapter profiling the demographic characteristics of those who seek to become musicians — and the toll such a life-choice can take.
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If anything, Bergman suggests that Israel's honed aptitude for clandestine assassinations led the country to rely on them to a fault, approaching some complex strategic and political concerns as problems that an extrajudicial killing could fix.
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The economic and educational hierarchies created by the use of such tests as the SAT, the ACT, the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Test, the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery and other similar exams have split the left.
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The depressing part is that this is just one more piece of evidence that Donald Trump surrounds himself with people who have both terrible judgment and terrible aptitude for the jobs they're supposed to be doing.
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Success in the afterlife required an aptitude for arcane theology, a command of potent resurrection spells and incantations and a knowledge of the names not just of Underworld doorkeepers but also of door bolts and floorboards.
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As people become more and more convinced of his championship aptitude each time he performs, it will be interesting to see what the future holds for one of the great success stories of modern day MMA.
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In particular, he spoke out about white male privilege, in response to James Damore's "anti-diversity" memo in which Damore made the case that women may have less preference and aptitude for engineering jobs for biological reasons.
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After all, we are part of a knowledge economy, and American students in 2016 ranked just 35th worldwide in math aptitude, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Program for International Student Assessment.
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Kushner, along with his wife Ivanka, are both grossly unqualified for the positions they have been given—rather than appoint experts into positions responsible for these innovation efforts, Trump's choices signal that he favors nepotism over aptitude.
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Even in those rare cases where everything seems bizarrely normal and okay, you still may wake up one morning to find your cat missing or discover that your partner's strongest quality is their aptitude for unflinching denial.
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But, in December Snow said his goal for 2017 was to have fewer than 2 percent of the new recruits be considered "category four," meaning they scored 31 or less, out of 99, on the aptitude test.
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"I would put this court as a whole up there with any court that the country has ever had in terms of the kind of legal skills, proficiency and lawyerly aptitude that this court has," she said.
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From this psychopathology, the play suggests, emerged the character's weird, obsessive determination to reach a goal that looked impossibly far off, a position for which he had no reasonable expectation, no proper qualification and absolutely no aptitude.
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An article he wrote for the journal Nature in 2006 titled "Does Gender Matter?" took on some prominent scholars who had argued that women were not advancing in the sciences because of innate differences in their aptitude.
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What could make a big difference is raising boys more like our girls — fostering kindness and caretaking, not just by telling them to respect women, but by modeling egalitarianism and male affection and emotional aptitude at home.
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Living as I do, deeply immersed in the work of teaching and learning second languages, it was fun to watch a TV series in which the main characters' aptitude for them was so central to the plot.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump showed an affinity for "working the referees" in his race to the White House, criticizing a federal judge as biased, panning polls as rigged and even questioning the aptitude of the nation's intelligence agencies.
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The disorder is characterized by having difficulty with social interactions, restricted interests, a desire for sameness, and distinctive strengths, like "remarkable" focus and persistence, an aptitude for recognizing patterns, and attention to detail, according to Autism Speaks.
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His mother, who ironed collars to make ends meet, recognized her son's mechanical aptitude and encouraged him at every turn, helping him set up a workbench at home and buying him the German equivalent of an Erector Set.
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In Weston's case, the daddies in his life discovered that he had an aptitude for the business side of porn, and he was soon managing an adult store before founding a porn-distribution company in the mid 90s.
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This could be because quite a lot of men studying economics see it as a ticket to success in finance; they will stick with it despite a lack of aptitude in a way similarly able women do not.
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The career-planning report that accompanied the aptitude test I took at 20173 even tried to dissuade me from a "literary" career, but even back then I had enough bravado to overrule that piece of computer-generated advice.
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This petty and demoralizing attack on the aptitude of the CBO's staff economists is the preferred spin of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, White House spokespeople and others.
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In other words, a woman needs to do more work to get to the top jobs that CES covets so dearly than a man of equal aptitude — and therefore, a man who might give a keynote equally well.
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A 2005 RAND study reported that a CAT IIIA (scoring in the 50th to 64th percentile in the aptitude test) tank gunner had a 6900 percent higher chance of hitting the target than a CAT IV tank gunner.
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As the recent admissions scandals at Yale, the University of Southern California and other colleges have demonstrated, the rich and entitled enjoy an astonishing array of ways to game the system, and aptitude tests are far from perfect.
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Early results from research financed by the National Institutes of Health seem to show that heavy screen use is associated with lower scores on some aptitude tests, and with accelerated "cortical thinning" — a natural process — in some children.
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Trump — whose own gaffes and behavior have raised questions among armchair doctors and Democrats about his fitness for office — has not been shy about raising questions about Biden's mental aptitude, and he has done so in brash terms.
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His aptitude and experience in both areas explain why he has been linked to so many managerial job openings — interviewing for several open posts last winter and at least one, with the Cubs last Monday, for next year.
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The women are paraded before potential mates at the equivalent of cattle calls, their desirable traits — long hair, beautiful eyes, slim figures, fair skin and an aptitude in the kitchen — marketed in matrimonial ads and online matchmaking profiles.
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It fell to me and my colleagues to dutifully craft apologies on behalf of our bosses, whose sensitive communications and private insults — speculation about, say, a foreign leader's mental aptitude or mysterious wealth — were about to become public.
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As you may have surmised, the sign takes a crack at DeVos's aptitude for the job, which was questioned extensively throughout the confirmation process, during which she suggested that schools might need guns onsite in case of grizzly bears.
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We caught a glimpse of Graham's aptitude for instant virality when he, white-suited and dark-spectacled, sauntered elegantly in front of hot pink Cadillacs in Drake's "Worst Behavior" video, which brought scores more fans to his Instagram account.
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If Namajunas showed any aptitude for body hitting it would be good to see her use long right straights and jabs to the body to more easily sneak in the right straight on the lead in the later going.
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Even if Trump once had some negotiating aptitude — his biographers say it was rare — we have seen his art-of-the-deal aspirations evaporate in a cloud of self-absorption, as one tableau of legislative chaos after another unfolds.
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The SAT (formerly standing for the Scholastic Aptitude Test, now just SAT) and ACT (originally American College Testing) are standardized tests that are functionally mandatory for admission at many colleges across the country, from elite universities to community college.
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A Photorealist with an aptitude for creating atmospheric urban landscapes, Gniewek has begun a new series of work based on his recent journey to Cuba; this exhibition will premiere the first two paintings from this new body of work.
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Despite the Chinese political flavour of some of the questions, growing numbers of Western universities are using gaokao results to select students from China instead of requiring them to sit internationally recognised exams such as the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT).
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Later, despite having little aptitude for getting along in the "real" world — his associates all say the artist is rather hapless anywhere except in his studio — Iturria worked briefly selling cars, a detail from his résumé he still recalls incredulously.
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It's a designation she's not entirely comfortable with, but it's comforting to me, a Black millennial woman, that the spokesperson of the next generation is a proud half Iranian, half African-American young person with Shahidi's seeming grace and aptitude.
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In addition to bringing on more teachers, Unacademy will use its new funding to expand key categories like pre-med, the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) and the Common Admission Test (CAT), which are required by many post-graduate programs.
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Fleisig believes the rise of Tommy John surgery among young pitchers is due to extreme overuse, not simply the popularization of the procedure's talismanic faculties, which typically include a return to pre-injury aptitude after 12 to 153 months recovery time.
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The Prince: Chris Pine Pine proved his aptitude for both bringing the charm and belting out tunes in 2014's Into the Woods, and he has plenty of blockbuster experience thanks to the Star Trek franchise and next year's Wonder Woman.
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The Cyberspace Administration of China said search engines should investigate the "aptitude" of clients offering paid-for ads, set a clear upper limit on such ads and clearly distinguish which are paid-for ads and which come from "natural searches".
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Over the next few years, their movement would move away from revolution by force and towards peaceful means, garnering international support through shrewd use of online communications and an aptitude for reaching out to political movements sympathetic to their own.
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For a good seven seasons and change, this series has hammered in the idea of Dany's aptitude for fairness; a queen interested in equality, with the one requirement being loyalty—bend the knee, and we won't have problems, she'd say.
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To the contrary, those who've served our country often possess a number of positive attributes above their civilian comrades, such as increased aptitude for teamwork, the ability to perform in stressful situations and conducting themselves with the utmost professionalism and respect.
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While this culture of making big bets with the bank's cash may have worked in a previous era, in today's market, where a premium is placed on managing risk as opposed to taking it, such an aptitude becomes a liability.
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In other words, though Theresa May lacks both her female predecessor's force of personality and aptitude for pushing her harmful agenda through Parliament, in many respects the legacy of Maggie Thatcher, Milk Snatcher, is alive and well in the May era.
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These performance-enhancing polymorphisms – PEPs – can affect height, blood flow, metabolic efficiency, muscle mass, muscle fibers, bone structure, pain threshold, fatigue resistance, power, speed, endurance, susceptibility to injury, psychological aptitude, and respiratory and cardiac functions, to name just a few.
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If young girls have the aptitude for and interest in engineering when they are able to experience it, and yet they are still not pursuing it as they get into high school and beyond, it means we are simply missing them.
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It responded by doubling its recruiting budget, adding enlistment bonuses up to $20,000, and allowing enlistees it would have turned away in the past, such as those who had no high school diploma, but still scored well on Army aptitude tests.
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With Ezekiel Elliott's running creating favorable down-and-distance situations, and with Beasley's aptitude for finding space in that crowded area in the middle of the field, the transition of Prescott from rookie to starting quarterback has been made easier.
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The spokesman said that it had made a concerted effort to remove bias from the test and that the test had evolved from an aptitude test nearly a century ago to a test of "skills and concepts" necessary for college work.
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"Any technology that is coming to the forefront [and] that's showing aptitude has to be at the top of [the] mind for these luxury companies," Shelly Socol, executive vice president and founder of the ecommerce agency One Rockwell, told Business Insider.
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Companies like Mindspark realize this and look to fill the gaps in its workforce with those who can do the job, rather than just filling seats with whomever impresses or shows social aptitude, something those with ASD tend to lack.
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But Tate has shown no aptitude for ring cutting in the past and, as Rousey found out, you are not going to convince Holm to just back onto the fence as so many other 'top strikers' in MMA will when under fire.
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Catherine Chung, a former math major at the University of Chicago, leans on her own real-life aptitude for math in her sophomore novel about a talented mathematician named Katherine whose attempt to solve the Riemann hypothesis uncovers secrets about her family's past.
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Some of her early portraits demonstrate an interest in and aptitude for the techniques of the Northern Renaissance masters; later works evoke Norman Rockwell's razor-sharp observations of quotidian American life (not to mention the similar struggles he faced, due to radical politics).
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But it's come through that natural aptitude Blackman has for maintaining relationships: one of the Sylas brothers has a studio room, and Blackman is allowed to come and go as he pleases, often recording late into the night or napping on the couch.
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It will have to ignore whether a candidate has a specific college degree or a certain number of years of experience, and instead focus on aptitude — whether the person either can already do the job, or can be trained to do it.
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READ: Bernie might win Iowa — and the Democratic Establishment Is in Freak-Out Mode Voters and the national press have spent the last few months questioning Biden's age, aptitude, and, yes, President Trump's relentless inquisition into Biden's son's business dealings in Ukraine.
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Our case study on Backstage Capital in section 3 is about recruiting through Twitter and Instagram, and having no set criteria for qualifications or subjects studied, and instead, hiring for aptitude and investing in training hires either on the job or through courses.
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In an interview with Savannah Guthrie on NBC's "TODAY" show, Haley defended Trump as "great to work with" and reiterated that she did not share the concerns of other former officials, such as John KellyJohn Francis KellyMORE, regarding Trump's aptitude for the job.
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Tarantino was manifestly miffed at the temerity some black writers displayed in questioning his aptitude and ability to address the trauma of African-American slavery in Django Unchained (2012), a gaudy, oft-surreal mélange of intense, baroquely-conceived violence and slapstick comedy.
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Her mother, the former Ann McDowell, was a homemaker who worked in a munitions factory during and after World War II. In high school, Katie took an aptitude test, and the results hinted that she might have a future as an architect.
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It turned out the winners had more in common than an aptitude for spelling: Six of them had relied on SpellPundit, a coaching company started last year by two former competitive spellers, the teenage siblings Shobha and Shourav Dasari of Spring, Tex.
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But lest you think that the only thing the Trump plan is missing is an aptitude test for children, what about William Ford, a farmer from County Cork, Ireland — whose son, Henry, was only born 31 years after he came to America?
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In winning their last nine games heading into Sunday's against Indianapolis, they have demonstrated an aptitude for denying points and running the ball — which, if one has monitored their travails over the last decade, has more or less been an organizational mission statement.
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A National Institutes of Health study suggests that young iPad junkies may be at risk for lower scores on some aptitude tests, and other research is showing that high exposure to screens can lead to children&aposs brains developing in subtly different ways.
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I had very little aptitude for art, and I was mostly frustrated and bored, and the fact that it was a long, cold winter did not make it any easier to wake up early and catch the bus that took me there.
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R. Chung, a former math major at the University of Chicago, leans on her own real-life aptitude for math in her sophomore novel about a talented mathematician named Katherine whose attempt to solve the Riemann hypothesis uncovers secrets about her family's past.
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He found early in life that he also had an aptitude for business, partnering with a local baseball trading card store to sell merchandise to his 5th grade classmates, and later running an under-the-table pop and candy business in middle school.
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I do think some of the use of AI ... We talk about how it'll eliminate jobs, we backed through Rise of the Rest a company in Baltimore called Catalyte using AI to identify people who have an aptitude for coding but never knew it.
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We took Rassmussen College's career aptitude test based on all the qualities Kim has exhibited — high on creativity and managerial skills, low on science and communication — and it seems like we might have stumbled upon a worthy choice for Kim K.'s old age.
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Policies throughout the years have altered the physical and mental aptitude requirements, have restricted -- and still restrict, to a lesser degree now -- the service of women, have banned the service of gays and lesbians, and have even made racial equality and equal opportunity a challenge.
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After the trailer dropped, social media quickly became a go-to venue for fans of the animated show to seek solace — whether to discuss their concerns regarding Dora's aptitude with sharp objects or simply to express incredulousness about this hard left turn for the character.
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The found people's beliefs about topics associated with their religious and political views become increasingly polarized with more education (measured by markers like the number of years in school, highest degrees earned, aptitude on general science facts or the number of science classes taken).
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When I hear investors say something like "I'd take profits on Facebook and put that money to work in Amazon" I don't need to judge the merits of the investment worthiness of either stock, or the aptitude of those who say it, to be worried.
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Transcripts of three of Mr. Nagle's semiannual performance reviews leading to his ouster, after nearly three years of what he said were positive reviews, show managers praising his aptitude for the work but criticizing him for not being friendly enough with co-workers or customers.
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And few polls have been released, taken in the time frame after FBI Director James Comey decided not to indict Clinton for using a personal email server while helming the State Department, that give a harsh political indictment of her professionalism and level of aptitude.
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Wolf, who seems to have no aptitude for detective work, is hired by Isabella Rubinstein, a beautiful Jewess ("She was a tall drink of pale milk"), to find her sister, who has gone missing somewhere between being smuggled out of Germany and landing in London.
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Derrick Lewis by no means has a bad gas tank for a heavyweight, and the running and jumping kicks he threw throughout this bout point to an athleticism and aptitude that could make him a world beater if combined with some quality ringcraft and strategy.
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Aside from martial aptitude, there were two principal requirements for recruits: they had to have been wounded by ISIS or its Islamist precursors—either physically, by bullets and blasts, or psychically, by the death of a loved one—and they had to crave revenge.
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Domestically, the average score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test dropped substantially over the second half of the 20th century, until the scores were "recentered" so that the 85033 average — 424 verbal and 478 math — was returned to the Greatest Generation's average of 500 for both.
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This practice hurts U.S. competitiveness in two ways: It slams the door of opportunity in the face of Americans with the experience to do the job or the aptitude to grow and makes it harder for American companies to find and retain affordable talent.
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They were also quick to reject students who failed to meet their standards, which include scores in the top third on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (Asvab) test and no history of serious drug use, crime or tattoos that the Marines consider ''undesirable.
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And I think those need to be changed so that when people come off the assembly line and telemarketing jobs, they can move into either an elderly care type of a job or a teacher type of a job, depending on their aptitude. Right.
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Those kids, we want to believe, get what Carol Dweck, a professor of psychology at Stanford University, calls the "growth mind-set:" the belief that their abilities can be developed, as opposed to a "fixed mind-set" in which innate aptitude limits the ability to learn.
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Getty ImagesThe Federal Bureau of Investigation executed a search warrant on the home of Manuel Alfaro, former executive director of assessment design and development at the College Board, which develops the SAT, an aptitude test for college bound high schoolers, according to a report by Reuters.
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According to sources familiar with the case, the Mirai investigation presented a unique opportunity to intercede with young defendants who had demonstrated a uniquely strong aptitude with computers, pushing them away from a life of crime online and instead towards legitimate employment in the computer security field.
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Don't Cave To The Status Quo Burns says that because many companies are actively looking for female employees, women with an interest and a "reasonable level of aptitude" in technology truly can get hired — even if the experiences of women who are hired needs to progress.
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She's mighty reminiscent of The Force Awakens' Rey: a tough survivalist with endless mechanical aptitude, a grudging truce with the other indigenous scroungers, a weapon that's more or less a quarterstaff spangled with tech scraps, and a chip on her shoulder about the fate of her family.
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The Rockefeller Foundation and 100K Opportunities have done important work in the impact hiring space to help companies understand how to attract and retain non-traditional candidates — so-called opportunity youth, who show tremendous promise and aptitude but may not have a conventional educational or professional background.
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The teasing-but-loving dynamic of all three kids on the phone together illustrates Chang's aptitude for writing dialogue and characters; as in the stand-up scene, she is at her finest when playing with the different expectations of an Asian audience and a white one.
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More than any presidential candidate in recent history, he has shown no serious aptitude for or interest in the details of national security issues, preferring to fall back on jingoism and baffling bromides ("We have to take ISIS out" or "I would consult with the best people").
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Keith Caneiro showed an early aptitude for computers, according to a 2001 article in the Asbury Park Press, and after working at fast-food restaurants and as a janitor in a computer store, he started a company with his older brother in 1987 that installed computer systems.
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Yet we still have not thought seriously about what it means when a private investigative project—bound by no rules of procedure, answerable to nothing but ratings, shaped only by the ethics and aptitude of its makers—comes to serve as our court of last resort.
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As Lois Haibt — who in 1955, as a freshly minted Vassar College graduate, joined the IBM team that created Fortran, the first popular programming language — once told me: "They took anyone who seemed to have an aptitude for problem-solving skills — bridge players, chess players, even women."
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Still, the special aptitude for certain types of work that comes along with some forms of autism has also caught the attention of the Israeli army, which has developed a special unit for recruits with autism, and economists interested in the possibilities of a more comfortably "neuro-diverse" future.
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The far greater likelihood is that it will play out uneventful the second time around, as Klitschko is a notoriously slow starter and an all-around cautious fighter, and Fury, despite his verbosity, has neither shown the aptitude of an elite boxer, nor hold a resume to suggest one.
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"A lot of this comes down not only to the aptitude, or the ability, but also the desire on the part of many of these students to say I want to put my career into a place that is clearly going to make the world better," he said.
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Far-right commentator Ann Coulter, who has been a big supporter of the president, tweeted during the meeting that "the DACA lovefest" at the White House would bring more damage to Trump than anything in the new Michael Wolff book, which features top aides reportedly questioning Trump's mental aptitude.
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Roldugin, who has denied an aptitude for business, has a 22.9 percent stake in Russia's largest TV advertising agency, and also owns 2014 percent of Bank Rossiya, a private bank in St. Petersburg that President Barack Obama has called Putin's "personal bank," according to the New York Times.
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"A large number of times people say, 'Wow, so-and-so has the best aptitude and leadership skills, but hasn't had some of the critical experiences'— primarily meaning the not large P&L [profit and loss] roles — 'and so it's just too risky to make that appointment,'" she explained.
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It will be interesting to find out which questions the moderators decide to ask during the "raise your hand" segments of the next debates because the Democratic candidates have already shown us a remarkable aptitude for keeping one hand in the air while putting one foot in their mouths.
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" The company says sales of the United We Win colorway will go toward a scholarship for a "worthy college-bound female student from the Bay Area who has shown an aptitude for overcoming adversity, catalyzing change within their community, and demonstrating excellence in a STEM-related field of study.
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Was there a higher aptitude, awareness, or literacy for design in the population — or, prone as we are to take the place we're born for granted, is there perhaps the opposite effect, an assumption that anywhere you go has heart-stopping architecture and triumphs of public sculpture at every turn?
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First, it was noted that VA tends to be defensive and overly reactive to criticism, by Congress and other-stakeholders, and that a leader who sets a tone of stability and better aptitude toward preemptively addressing the department's traditional strengths and weaknesses would be an initial step in the right direction.
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Their sourcing is thin—as are their justifications for why she would lie about her astrological data despite having no clear interest or aptitude in astrology—but the 8 AM time is still the most commonly used among the disciples of Clinton's birth chart, according to several astrologers I spoke with.
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Globally, women use the internet 12 percent less than men, with the gap widening to 32 percent in the least developed countries, due to a wide range of reasons that relate to social norms and women's place in society including income, perceptions about technical aptitude and concerns around privacy and safety.
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"I don't want teachers to have guns, I want certain highly adept people, people that understand weaponry, guns — if they really have that aptitude," Mr. Trump said during his second White House meeting in two days to discuss how to respond to the latest school shooting in the United States.
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The basic program, a two-year study for a certificate of professional aptitude, has students "learn quartz and mechanical movements, and how to put together a movement and take it apart, as well as oiling, adjusting and replacing parts," said David Grandvuillemin, the school's assistant director of the professional programs.
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But the populist appeal of the deal has far outweighed its practical effect, not just because that deal involved only one plant, but because the Trump administration has shown no interest in or aptitude for addressing the underlying trends in technology, anti-unionism and public policy that undermine blue-collar jobs.
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Warren's strength this cycle has come from two places: First, her ability to think big while actually planning out the details of how to achieve the sprawling policies she proposes; and second, her aptitude at talking about inequality as a class issue and a race issue and a gender issue.
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It's hardly a stretch — John and Taupin ransacked country as they did every other pop genre under the sun, and they share with the artists on this compilation an aptitude for catchy, well-made quasi-ballads with a hint of corn; countrifying Tumbleweed Connection and "Roy Rogers" is a no-brainer.
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Under the new program, which has been in the works for the last two years, enlistment standards — including the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery test, physical fitness, education requirements, citizenship status, and medical requirements — will also be made common for all special warfare recruits instead of having different standards for different career fields.
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Acknowledging the musical genius of black women artists is important, not only as a source of respect but as a way to open the canon and see the ways in which black women, who are often viewed as mere ornaments in their own industry, have shaped music with their own surreal talent and aptitude.
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Alejandro Zambra's Facsímil: Libro de ejercicios (Editorial Hueders, 2014) is a genre-defying collection of short stories, prose poems, and flash fictions, mimicking the form of the Verbal Aptitude Test [Prueba de Aptitud Verbal], a standardized multiple choice test — somewhat like the SAT — that was necessary for applying to college between 1967 and 2003.
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Last year, the Army failed to achieve its enlistment goal for the first time since 21625 despite lowering standards, granting waivers (for mental, physical and criminal records), enlisting Category Four (CAT IV) applicants who score between the 2900th and 220006st percentile on aptitude tests, offering two-year enlistments, and providing student loan repayment programs.
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