Sentences with phrase «olds read for»

In 1984, NAEP results showed the vast majority of 9 - year - olds read for fun once or more per week, with more than half reporting reading almost every day.
In 1984, 35 % of 13 - year - olds read for fun almost every day, and another 35 % read one or two times per week — in total, more than two - thirds of 13 - year - olds reported reading at least once a week.

Not exact matches

From Bill Gates to Warren Buffett, many icons of business are known to make time for good, old - fashioned reading.
The takeaway here — as much as it pains someone who writes for the Web to say it — is that the best sort of reading is probably the most old - fashioned: just you, a book, and a quiet room for an extended period of time.
Most Twitter users don't look at tweets that are more than a couple of hours old, so if you want people to actually read your posts, you should time them for when you have the largest live audience.
I recalled this decades - old memory when I read an investigation published online yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine entitled, «Comparison of Hospital Mortality and Readmission Rates for Medicare Patients Treated by Male vs. Female Physicians.»
The 35 - year - old has many interests in life — in high school he played every sport he could try out for, and at home, he'd watch every movie and read every comic book he came across — but his chief interest is simply listening to his mind wander.
Read «Make a Backup of Your CMOS» in an old (but still useful) Answer Line column for details.
Ask the business's attorneys for a legal history of the company, and read all old and new contracts.
I didn't know the term for it, this thing we now call a «personal brand,» but at seventeen years old I knew that having ten thousand people reading my blog every day was valuable.
There are still some functions available from the old platform, however, such as the ability to read public media on behalf of a user or to read a user's own media statistics, although the number of requests (the number of times your app accesses Instagram's data, useful for real - time updates) has been reduced to 200 from 5,000.
«This pattern or practice of discrimination denies job opportunities to individuals who are searching for and interested in jobs, reduces the number of older workers who apply for jobs with the offending employers and employment agencies, and depresses the number of older workers who are hired,» the complaint reads.
If you're old enough to remember a time before mobile devices existed, you may wistfully yearn for the days when people were head - up, paid better attention to conversations and read books or the newspaper instead of scrolling through a Facebook feed on their phones.
If you're a shaving enthusiast or have read our reviews of the best pre-shave oils and best shaving cream for sensitive skin, then you're probably already familiar with Taylor of Old Bond Street.
I recently read that a classmate of mine started a company that was acquired during the Internet boom for $ 500 million when it was just 18 months old.
All in all, for people who prefer to read their e-books on «old - fashioned» e-ink devices rather than tablets, there's no doubt the Kindle Touch is the cream of the crop.
I think I will read the other two articles on the Roth, but I am not sure if you touched upon the fact that one can also take up to $ 10K in gains for a first - time home (no tax penalty) and there is also no tax penalty for withdrawals so long as the account is 5 years old.
I thought the header of the old design was to big, you had to scroll down for your first read... Nice work!
You never want to make too much out of one poll, and the sample size for individual countries are pretty small in this one, but still, I was struck by some of the results in this international poll of 11 and 12 year - olds, feature in this AM's KidsPost (frequent breakfast reading in our house).
We'll use smartphones to scan for risk factors of high blood pressure or type - 2 diabetes, «visit» with specialists remotely at medical kiosks — and when we do go for an in - person exam, we'll spend the bulk of time seeing the doctor rather than reading old magazines in the waiting room.
«We've put more effort though in converting readers who reads us for free into paying members,» the 29 - year - old
Read the piece on her in New York Mag and tell me you're not rooting for her new eponymous firm, which also aims to go old school, with clients who will actually pay for her research and execute trades with her shop.
Read on for 6 important retirement planning tips for 50 year olds: Retirement...
Next step for me was to set a financial goal properly, read informative information offered at sites like this, and to associate with those older and wiser than me about money (not my parents).
It's an old story for the security industry that has played out numerous times in the past: a new technology arrives on the back of... Read More»
This week, a computer program fooled 33 percent of judges at the University Reading into believing that they were chatting with a real - life 13 - year - old boy from Ukraine, thus passing the «Turing Test» for artificial intelligence.
It's not hard to imagine Joel and Ethan Coen, the innovative filmmakers who gave the world the comedic brutality in No Country for Old Men, Fargo and True Grit, growing up obsessed with reading Judges until the pages fell apart.
read more than one or two fields of study and for crying out f - uc - king loud put down the old book of lies.
Boethius... thx for yr reply... I don't think it's that simple to say that» they got that from reading ancient documents incorrectly»... the specifically Christian apocalyptic thinking that has survived in various theologies, whether traditionally Catholic or the most horrific end time sect appears to have it's roots in both the old and new testaments, but that begs a question.What are those documents?
This week, a lot of people read this profile of 25 - year - old Cody Wilson in Forbes magazine and learned about his mission to distribute the plans for the world's first 3D - printed gun online.
I would say read the Holy Books start with the «Quran» being the latest Holy book that came combined to correct the older version ones read just for knowledge and not for finding a religion but to learn what they say about God..
That was very interesting thing to read about and I respect every word it came with and Thank you for the guidance and encouragement therefore I find my self more attracted to read the old books after all they are the elder parts of our book what ever they say although each has his own belief and can figure which are similar to ours and which are not... after all verses seemed as ours although were put differently... Thank you again and wish all the Christians a Happy and Peaceful celebration for this occasion... our prayers and peace upon the soul and the spirit of the Prophet and Messenger of God Jesus the Son of Mary..
CNN is certainly home for a lot of Christian bashers, can read the tired old hatred here on the boards every day.
«Great potential for growth in the Baby Boomer market,» one of the book's memos reads, «but will require awareness campaigns to promote the concept of «guilt,» which 53 — 68 - year - old respondents to a survey reported they are «less likely» or «unlikely» to experience.»
Uncouth Swain, I read it, studied it, prayed from it and over it for more years than you are old, kid.
The fact that you are uneducated is not the issue of those of us who are... read a science book for a change and get your head out of that 2000 year old book... only children and schizophrenics have imaginary friends..
It's a substantial magazine of the old sort, which one reads for the pleasure of reading and of learning, covering subjects with no obvious immediate cash value but of great value to those who believe in humane learning — though it also dealt well with the pressing issues of the day.
In other words, the Church's determination to read the Old and New Testaments together, to consider them a sequential set of texts with theological integrity, led to, or at least made itself deeply at home with, a widespread use of a single codex for the unified Christian Bible.
I am going to take time for myself this weekend and read all the old entries.
I picked up an old Everyman edition of John Henry Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua in a secondhand bookshop, and, reading it, discovered that there was a beautiful and spiritual rationale for Catholic sacramental theology.
I was reading the dictionary for fun at 8 years old.
I was just reading the Sermon on the Mount: «Blessed are the conservatives who keep wealth in the hands of the few... Blessed are those who want to move towards the way things were in the good old days... Blessed are those who repeal programs for the poor and give to the rich.»
I want the sloppy prayers and the hope and the flags and the unreasonable and embarrassing expectations for the voice of God to break through my life and the unprofessional dancers and the praying in tongues and the Eucharist and the Book of Common prayer being read aloud like it's slam poetry in an old warehouse.
We would pass around the Bible and the older ones read the verses aloud for us and we just talked about what it meant for us and for the world.
What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.
The whole series makes for one very happy girl (or boy, for that matter, as her two older brothers have read the whole series also.)
There are a few books that are appropriate for kids to use for learning to read, but most of them are just good old read - alouds.
What we read in the Old Testament should not be interpreted as God's approval of such crimes against the human person, but rather we should see how far humanity had to mature, be healed and be guided by God in these times before Jesus Christ's revealing and redeeming work for us.
This is very much the case for a spiritual people growing spiritually, as we clearly read concerning the people of the Old Testament.
For example, he bewails the fact that no one any longer reads the thousand - year - old Persian epic Shehname.
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