A good neighbor is also one who likes to help out in small ways.

A Swiss study reported that while the weight of electronic goods represented by precious metals was relatively small in comParison to total waste, the concentration of gold and other precious metals was higher in so-called e-waste than in nature.

A tool developed just a couple of years ago by a young farmer, Jonathan Dysinger, in Tennessee, with a small loan from a local slow money group.

Advantages\tsmall talk can help people form new friendships.

After he was put on disability for a bad back, he bought a small farm in the country, just enough to grow food for the family.

After ten years of living in one, I can't imagine ever living in a small town again.

Aggressive wildfire control has left California forests crowded with small trees that compete with big trees for resources.

Although they began with a small restaurant, they had big dreams, and they worked together.

And while plastic bags may be ugly to look at, they represent a small percentage of all garbage on the ground today.

As it happened, the bite was virtually painless: more the kind of small bite you might get from a naughty child.

As she looked up at the three new humans in her life small, medium, and large, she calculated, \the medium one is the sucker in the pack.

As the co-founder of the National Young Farmers Coalition NYFC (美国青年农会) and a family farmer myself, I have a front-row seat to the innovations among small farmers that are transforming the industry.

As the smallest child of his family, Alex is always longing for the time when he should be able to be independent.

As they left student life behind, many had a last drink at their cheap but friendly local bar, shook hands with longtime roommates, and moved out of small apartments into high buildings.

Before the tool came out, small farmers couldn't touch the price per pound offered by California farms.

Bonn has now tested this idea by building small sleds and dragging heavy objects over sand.

Breaking up firms like Google into five small ones would not stop remaking themselves: in time, one of them would become great again.

But good news is that there're really only three kinds of decisions you need to make about color in your home: the small ones, the medium ones, and the large ones.

But in agriculture, small farmers can get the best of the major players.

But the next time you find yourself among strangers, consider that small talk is worth the trouble.

By connecting directly with customers, and by responding quickly to changes in the markets as well as in the ecosystems (生态系统), small farmers can keep one step ahead of the big guys.

Carducci believes developing such a sense of belonging starts with small talk.

Children love the small train and playgrounds in the pavilion gardens and there's plenty more to explore at the buxton museum.

Color choices in this range are a step up from the small ones in two major ways.

Competition between small and big farms is fierce.

Conclusion· Small talk really matters a lot to us.

Dismissing small talk as unimportant is easy, but we can't forget that deep relationships wouldn't.

Ehlers thought about the small dog he had seen trembling alongside the road.

Even as late as 1870 when their numbers had already become smaller, a flock believed to be 1 mile wide and 320 miles about 515 kilometers long was seen near cincinnati.

Farecard machine are in every station, bring small bills because there are no change machines in the station and farecard machine only provide up to $ 5 in change.

Food in small pieces could be eaten easily with twigs which gradually turned into chopsticks.

For just a small donation, you can take a tour with our garden guide.

For them, they are just too small.

Ground water evaporates and collects on the sheet until small drops of water form, run down the material and fall off into the cup.

He can't help checking even at inappropriate times like when we are eating in a restaurant and I am talking to him! he behaves as if any small amount of boredom can make him feel the need to check his phone even when he knows he shouldn't.

However, these things are not common in small towns.

However, when you think about it, small talk is anything but small.

However, you seldom find such a variety of people in a smaller town.

I consulted with a physician, I hired a fitness coach, and I began to eat small and healthy meals.

I grew up in a small town until I was 18 and then moved to a big city, so I have experienced the good and bad sides of both.

I put a small set of tinkertoys in front of each student, and said: \make something out of the tinkertoys.\

If Tononi's theory is right, it would explain why, when we miss a night's, we find it harder the next day to concentrate and learn new information — our brains may have smaller room for new experiences.

I'll be doing some small repairs inside and outside the hotel.

In 1943, a Mexican farmer was surprised to see smoke rising from a small part of his land.

In a small town, you have to own a car to make life comfortable.

We are likely to make small talk when we first meet people.

It enables small-scale farmers to harvest 175 pounds of green vegetables per hour—a huge improvement over harvesting just a few dozen pounds by hand—suddenly making it possible for the little guys to compete with large farms of California.

It is important to remember that success is a sum of small efforts made each day and often takes years of achieve.

It was a small school with a weak football program.

It was our home, small and charming, overlooking a quiet lake.

I've never exchanged words with those moms beyond small tall, but they wanted to help.

Join a small group bike tour for an evening of exploration in the heart of Washington, D.C.

Last October, while tending her garden in mora, Sweden, Lena Pahlsson pulled out a handful of small carrots and was about to throw them away.

Loans to small local farmers are necessary.

Mathematical models have also revealed that food webs may be unstable, where small changes of top predators can lead to big effects throughout entire ecosystems.

Mount Kilimanjaro is the tallest mountain in Africa, climbing it is no small task, especially for a group of seven who are all disabled in some way.

Naomi put a small recorder near the piano, starts and stops and mistakes.

Of course, safety should be considered, and that's one area where small towns are better than big cities.

Over time, as/when the population grew, people began cutting food into small pieces so it would cook more quickly.

People believed there was an ever-lasting supply and killed them by the thousands, commercial hunters attracted them to small clearings with grain.

Practice more in order to make small talk easier.

Research suggests that small talk can build new friendships.

Researchers found small amounts of fat, as well as a large amount of stone and the remains of paths.

Secondly, their muscles grew smaller and weaker.

She arranged for a flight on a small plane to be held for me.

She ultimately purchased a small piece of land with her husband and began growing their own foods.

Small color choices bring with them the significant benefit of being easily changeable.

Small companies could get more opportunities.

Small farmers may gain some advantages over big ones.

Small talk can also help people get a job.

Small talk even helps people get hired.

Small talk is the grease for social communication.

Small wood-frame buildings could be lifted fairly easily.

Some animals are simply very small or extremely flat.

Some people avoid small talk because they dislike discussing things like traffic or weather.

Soon afterwards, Helene and diana changed the sandwich shop into a small vietnamese restaurant.

Surely small towns and big cities both have some problems in terms of transport.

Talking to someone you don't know is not the easiest thing to do! some experts say with more practice, small talk does get easier.

That's exactly what is happening in small neighborhoods around the country from orange county, California, where 22 measles cases were reported this month, to brooklyn, n.

The arts are efficient economic drivers and when they are supported, the entire small-business community benefits.

The bone structure of our ancestors developed for millions of years to support a creature that walked on all fours and has a relatively small head.

The general rule is that mild zones have relatively few languages, often spoken by many people, while hot, wet zones have lots, often spoken by small numbers.

The movie is set in a small town where the only movie theater is preparing to close down.

The numbers might sound small, but they are the leading edge of a dangerous trend.

The quality of education in this small school is better than that in some larger schools.

The resistance to vaccine has continued for decades, and it is driven by a real but very small risk.

The ship was the endurance, a small, tight, norwegian-built three-master that was intended to take sir Ernest shackleton and a small crew of seamen and scientists, 27 men in all, to the southernmost shore of antArctica's weddell sea.

The sustainable success of small farmers, though, won't happen without fundamental changes to the industry.

The synapses in the mice taken at the end of a period of sleep were 18 per cent smaller than those taken before sleep, showing that the connections between neurons weaken while sleeping.

The under-estimation was systematic: when adding two numbers, the monkeys always paid attention to the larger of the two, and then added only a fraction of the smaller number to it.

The weight of e-goods is rather small.

There they joined danny's mother, diana, who owned a small itAlian sandwich shop.

They require a bigger commitment than smaller ones, and they have a more powerful effect on the feeling of a space.

This one stranger responded beautifully to my small crisis, but she actually wasn't the only one.

This small act will let your neighbors know that you care about the area.

This small group bike tour is a fantastic way to see the world-famous cherry trees with beautiful flowers of Washington, D.C.

Three weeks ago, I witnessed a small near-disaster a few miles west of here.

Today $8 or $10 seems a small amount of money, but at that time these amounts were forbidding to most citizens.

We start with small talk, a polite conversation about something like traffic or weather.

We use small talk to find common interests.

an accelerating speeda shift to city centersa new focus on small citiesan ever-increasing demandPeople can live without private cars.

They need to keep teams small and focused: giving in to pressure to be more inclusive is a guarantee of dysfunction.

They can only afford small apartments.

Strength, softness and thickness remain the leading indicators of toilet paper quality, with just a small proportion of consumers preferring more luxurious alternatives, such as those with flower patterns or perfume,said Mintel analyst Jack Duckett.

Small signs may indicate great changes to come and therefore merit attention.

In fact, there is almost no hard evidence for midlife crisis other than a few small pilot studies conducted decades ago, Barbara Hagerty writes in her new book, Life Reimagined.

As smaller cities copy the model of these 24-hour cities, more affordable versions of these places will be created.

A very small number of people are able to remember almost every detail of their life.

With wild carrots, the roots are white, small and skinny, so you’d have to pick a lot of wild carrots to get enough to eat.

[The most recent of these studies, published in The Journal of Applied Gerontology, surveyed 150 Connecticut residents of assisted living, nursing homes and smaller residential care homes ( ' , known in some states as board and care homes or adult care homes).

So the formerly small supper after sundown becomes the big meal of the day, the only one at which the family has a chance to get together.

Later, at 5 or 6, you'd have a smaller supper.

Italians, says Counihan, traditionally began the day with a small meal.

Indeed, we have made substantial progress in some parts of the world on at least one of these—the distribution of family-planning services and the associated shift to smaller families.

In between the midday meal and a late, smaller dinner came a small snack.

A person who had input into where he would move and has had time to adapt to it might do as well in a nursing home as in a small residential care home, other factors being equal.

The researchers, led by Martin Reimann, carried out a series of experiments to see if people would choose a smaller meal if it was paired with a non-food item.

The odds of a criminal using technical means to bypass a security system are so small that the FBI doesn't even track those statistics.

The fact that participants were willing to substitute part of a food item for the mere prospect of a relatively small monetary award is interesting, says Reimann.

Only a very small proportion of burglaries are committed by technical means.

Most kids and adults would choose a smaller meal that came with a non-food item.

Even more interesting is that the promise of a future reward was enough to make adults choose the smaller portion.

Eating a smaller portion of food does good to the health of kids and adults alike.

Cracker Jacks has been gamifying its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-ofthe- century steel magnate ( ' , 巨头) Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of steel produced on the past shift on the factory floor, thus motivating the next shift of workers to beat the previous one.

But how probable is it that someone will successfully jam their way into your home and steal your stuff?Let's imagine that you live in a small home with a wireless security setup that offers a functional anti-jamming system.

Adults chose the smaller portion on the mere promise of a future award.

According to a new study from Cornell University's Food and Brand Lab, small nonfood rewards—like the toys in McDonald's Happy Meals—stimulate the same reward centers in the brain as food does.

When a group of craftsmen expands to include more members, a small craft organization is formed.

This might be a small change to the way we view work and the office, but the researchers argue that it challenges a widespread characteristic of the economy: work organized by clock time.

Should a woman who possessed a small amount of drugs years ago be permanently unable to be licensed as a nurse?These laws are also counterproductive, since they make it harder for people with criminal records to find housing or land a job, two key factors that reduce backsliding.

Becoming educated should not require giving up joy but rather lead to finding joy in new kinds of things: reading novels instead of playing with small figures, conducting experiments instead of sinking cups in the bathtub, and debating serious issues rather than stringing together nonsense words, for example.

In fact, there is almost no hard evidence for midlife crisis other than a few small pilot studies conducted decades ago, Barbara Hagerty writes in her new book, life Reimagined.

Strength, softness and thickness remain the leading indicators of toilet paper quality, with just a small proportion of consumers preferring more luxurious alternatives, such as those with flower patterns or perfume, said mintel analyst Jack Duckett.

The fact that participants were willing to substitute part of a food item for the mere prospect of a relatively small monetary award is interesting, says Reimann.

The move to recapture a small part of the profits from an industry that pushes a product that contributes to diabetes, obesity and heart disease in poorer communities in order to reinvest in those communities will sure be inspirational to many other plac

A plant uses only a small part of the energy produced by that process.

A raccoon, a small cat like animal climbed to the top of a 25-story sky scraper early on Wednesday.

According to a new study from Cornell University's Food and BrandLab, small nonfood rewards—like the toys in McDonald's Happy Meals—stimulate the same reward centers in the brain as food does.

Also, certain types of bacteria are extremely harmful, and it takes only a small number to make you sick.

And I can see myself sitting on a small chair by the fire doing needlework.

And there were small towns, and New York wasn't that far away.

And they target a small amount of money.

Becoming educated should not require giving up joy but rather lead to finding joy in new kinds of things: reading novels instead of playing with small figures, conducting experiments instead of sinking cups in the bathtub, and debating serious issues rath

Being depressed can mean feeling lost in your own small, negative, dark world, Dowrick says.

Cracker Jacks has been gamifying its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-of-the-century steel magnate (巨头 Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of

Each time, the rook deposits a cigarette end or a small piece of rubbish.

Even men and schoolchildren are swelling the ranks,among them my friend's three small grandsons.

I felt like it was a small fortune, even though it wasn't.

In the mornings you can go down to a small local cafe, soaking up the sun's rays, and drinking coffee.

Let's imagine that you live in a small home with a wireless security setup that offers a functional anti-jamming system.

Most urban Africans work for a small minority of the rich, who tend to be involved in either cronyish businesses or politics.

Nadeau is part of a small revolution developing across California.

One of the best known of these small countries is Monaco.

Only a small 31 percentage of people had all-male or all-female characteristics.

Other small independent states in Europe are San Marino and Luxembourg.

Returning to a normal life can be difficult, but some small routines mail delivery being one of them may help residents remember that their communities are still their communities.

Should a woman who possessed a small amount of drugs years ago be permanently unable to be licensed as a nurse?

So-called roads of national importance were designated, but they were mostly small country roads.

Some of those small mammals help to sustain such big birds as golden eagles.

The birds will be encouraged to clean the park through the use of a small box that delivers a small amount of bird food.

The carts he refers to are small shopping carts—the symbol of a true Venetian.

Their invention is a small biological circuit they call E-Kaia.

They need to keep teams small and focused: giving in to pressure to be more inclusive is a guarantee of dysfunction.

Thinking small, being engaging, and having a sense of humor don't hurt.

We'll all get the kids to build a small boat.

Renewables account for only a small share of global primary energy consumption, which is still dominated by fossil fuels—30% each for coal and oil, 25% for natural gas.

The bills in both chambers would create health insurance exchanges on which small businesses and individuals could choose from an array of private plans and possibly a public option.

The amount spent on interactive advertising on television is still small.

My own research at the Stanford Center on Adolescence uses in-depth interviews with small samples of youngsters rather than large-scale surveys.

In fact, other recent studies have found there has never been a time in American history when so small a proportion of young people have sought or accepted leadership roles in local civic organizations.

He predicts high failure rates for smaller, regional banks in 2010 as commercial real estate loans come due.

Many of the world's most climate-vulnerable countries, the majority of which are African or small island states, produce a very small quantity of emissions.

But over the last couple of years, and in this one in particular, we are starting to see companies shift from what is the largest screen size, the smallest form factor or the shiniest object and more into what all of these devices do that is practical in a consumer's life.

Welcome to the third lecture in our series on the future of small businesses in Europe.

The purpose of today’s lecture, as you have seen from the title and the abstract, is to examine in more detail the problems facing small- and medium-sized enterprises which arise at least in part from having to adapt to rapid advances in technology.

The legend says that when seven girls were attacked by bears, they took refuge on top of a small rock, and they appealed to the Rock God for help.

Small wonder that an Indian legend described Devils Tower as being formed by supernatural powers.

Tennessee State's overall graduation rate is a tiny 39 percent, but at least it has a smaller gap between the outcomes for first-generation students and those of their peers.

Students are placed in small groups with counselors ( ' , trained seniors on campus); they have access to cultural and ethnic affinity ( ' , 联 系 ) groups, tutoring centers and also have a summer orientation specifically for first-generation students ( ' , the latter being one of the most common programs for students).

Still, Jones represents a small percentage of first-generation students who are able to gain entry into more elite universities, which are often known for robust financial aid packages and remarkably high graduation rates for first-generation students.

Like many first-generation students, he enrolled in a medium-sized state university many of his high school peers were also attending, received a Pell Grant, and took out some small federal loans to cover other costs.

It's not only the selective and elite institutions that provide those opportunities for a small subset of this population, Rubinoff said, adding that a majority of first-generation undergraduates tend toward options such as online programs, two-year colleges, and commuter state schools.

If we can help to direct students to more of these types of campuses and help students to understand them to be realistic and accessible places, have them apply to these schools at greater frequency and ultimately get in and enroll, we are going to raise the success rate, Rubinoff said, citing a variety of colleges ranging from large state institutions to smaller private schools.

Asia led the way, with the biggest number from China followed by Japan and India, most European and Asian universities provide an elite service to a small numberof people.

\It's a very small number of games that would trigger this secondary compensation issue,\ said voice actor Crispin Freeman, who's a member of the union's negotiating committee.

\It's a very small number of games that would trigger this secondary compensation issue,\ said voice actor Crispin Freeman, who's a member of the union's negotiating committee. \This is an important aspect of what it means to be freelance (从事自由职业的) perfor

\It's not only the selective and elite institutions that provide those opportunities for a small subset of this population,\ Rubinoff said, adding that a majority of first-generation undergraduates tend toward options such as online programs, two-year col

A small percentage, about 1% and that can be built into the price of the bike.

After that, a few small populations left Africa to populate the rest of the world.

Because they're so small and light, it costs much less to get a Cube Sat into Earth's orbit than a traditional communications or GPS satellite.

CubeSat researchers suggest that now's the time to ponder unexpected and unintended possible consequences of more people than ever having access to their own small slice of space.

first of all, small is beautiful: people definitely prefer working for smaller organizations or companies with less than 100 staff.

For decades, many downtown cores in small to mid-sized cities were abandoned after work hours by workers who lived in the suburbs.

For instance, a research group here at Arizona State University recently claimed their developmental small CubeSats could cost as little as $3, 000 to put in orbit.

Here we have three of the most important problems facing small businesses that I want to look at today.

In fact, analysis actually showed a small weight loss.

In recent years, many mid-sized cities have begun to adopt a middle-of-the-road approach incorporating the excitement and opportunity of large cities with small cities' quiet after midnight.

It was an increase that was on a small base of 6.9 percent.

Last summer, Massachusetts grass-fed beef advocate John Smith launched Big Picture Beef, a network of small grass-fed beef farms in New England and New York that is projected to bring to market 2,500 head of cattle from 125 producers this year.

like many first-generation students, he enrolled in a medium-sized state university many of his high school peers were also attending, received a Pell Grant, and took out some small federal loans to cover other costs.

Many of the world's most climate-vulnerable countries, the majority of which are African or small island states, produce a very small quantity of emissions.

More than drones dropping a new supply of underwear on your doorstep, Apple's massively successful brick-and-mortar-and-glass retail stores and Amazon's small steps in the same direction are what should keep old-fashioned retailers awake at night.

Now, all of these problems involve significant costs for all businesses, but there're particularly challenging issues for small- and medium-sized enterprises.

Only a small fraction of the population was literate, but the production of books grew at an extraordinary speed.

Recently though, I turn my photography hobby into a small business.

Researchers at small labs or at institutions focused on teaching arguably have the most to lose when sharing hard-won data.

since 2010, the couple has helped 125 small dairy farms convert to grass-fed, with more than 80% of those farms coming on board during the last two years.

Small communities, with their distinctive character—where life is stable and intensely human—are disappearing.

So during the first few moments of the big bang, the universe was extremely hot and very small.

Some of these spectacular churches are no more than small buildings, barely 4 meters wide and 6 meters tall.

Speaking from New Zealand via Skype, Moffitt explained that self-control problems were widely observed, and weren't just a feature of a small group of misbehaving kids.

Starr recently conducted a small study that found that adding extra protein foods to the diet of obese older individuals who were trying to lose weight strengthened their muscles.

Students are placed in small groups with counselors trained seniors on campus; they have access to cultural and ethnic affinity(联系) groups, tutoring centers and also have a summer orientation specifically for first-generation students.

The death of a small child would have no effect upon the income of the family.

The idea was to test the machines on a database that included up to 1 million different images of nearly 700, 000 different people—and not just a large database featuring a relatively small number of different faces, more consistent with what's been used

The most common CubeSat is a 10cm cube, so small that a single CubeSat could easily be mistaken for a paperweight on your desk.

The Old Order Amish, who arrived on American shores in colonial times, have survived in the modern world in distinctive, small communities.

They called a submarine an iron fish and a small bomb thrown by hand a potato.

They found that adolescents who spent a very small amount of time on digital devices—a couple of hours a week—had the highest well-being.

They have purchased a home with a small down payment and a 30-year mortgage.

This would generate steam that could be used to fill tanks on a small steam train without the use of fire.

Demand comes mainly from two sources: independent mom-and-pop grocery stores which, unlike large retail chains, are too small to buy straight from producers, and food service operators that cater to consumers when they don’t eat at home.

Big retailers must understand these differences before they can identify the segments of European wholesaling in which their particular abilities might unseat smaller but entrenched competitors.

But it’s interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren’t in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting “ the Rachel” might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.

Even after the advent of widespread social media, a pyramid of production remains, with a small number of people uploading material, a slightly larger group commenting on or modifying that content, and a huge percentage remaining content to just consume.

In most of the homeless gardens of New York City the actual cultivation of plants is unfeasible, yet even so the compositions often seem to represent attempts to call arrangement of materials, an institution of colors, small pool of water, and a frequent presence of petals or leaves as well as of stuffed animals.

However, the numbers are still small: in 2010, about 1,600 of the 100,000 social-sciences papers published globally included one of these keywords.

Most ground surveys involve a lot of walking, looking for surface clues such as small fragments of pottery.

In one case, many researchers working around the ancient Maya city of Copan, Honduras, have located hundreds of small rural villages and individual dwellings by using aerial photographs and by making surveys on foot.

These travelers to North America came in small, unmercifully overcrowded craft.

A small but vocal group of Hawaiians and environments have long viewed their presence as disrespect for sacred land and a painful reminder of the occupation of what was once a sovereign nation.

We are still at the beginning of this revolution and small choices now may turn out to have gigantic consequences later.

Technology will improve society in ways big and small over the next few years, yet this will be little comfort to those who find their lives and careers upended by automation.

But it's interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren't in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of

Conversely, someone with a small frame may have high body fat but a normal BMI.

During the Depression and the war, Americans had learned to live with less, and that restraint, in combination with the postwar confidence in the future, made small, efficient housing positively stylish.

Even dairy farms, where robots do a small share of milking, have a long way to go before they're automated.

I was addressing a small gathering in a suburban Virginia living room—a women group that had invited men to join them.

In many such cases, a cursory search for causes finds that some small group of people was wearing, promoting, or developing whatever it is before anyone else paid attention.

In one case, many researchers working around the ancient Maya City of Copan, Honduras, have located hundreds of small rural villages and individual dwellings by using aerial photographs and by making surveys on foot.

Instead, being grateful for small things every day is a much better way to improve well-being.

It insists that economic co-ordination should involve all 27 members of the EU club, among whom there is a small majority for free-market liberalism and economic rigour; in the inner core alone, Germany fears, a small majority favour French interference.

mies' sophisticated presentation masked the fact that the spaces he designed were small and efficient, rather than big and often empty.

Shop at butchers, delis and fish-sellers regularly, even for small things, and be super friendly.

Some people like small talk in a meeting before digging into important matters, while other are more straightforward.

That's only a small share of the total acreage that could benefit, about half a million acres in all, so it will be vital to prioritize areas at greatest risk of fire or drought.

This is now a question for Gloria Mackenzie, an 84-year-old widow who recently emerged from her small, tin-roofed house in Florida to collect the biggest undivided lottery Jackpot in history.

This is the famed citation index, that is to say the number of times a paper has been quoted elsewhere in the scientific literature, the assumption being that an important paper will be cited more often than one of small account.

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