Sentences with phrase «says simple adjustments»

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The beauty of social awareness is that a few simple adjustments to what you say can vastly improve your relationships with other people.

Still, meeting a new standard would not be a simple adjustment, says Joe Shamie, co-president of Delta Children, a global manufacturer of cribs, furniture, baby gear, and dressers.

«Instead of invoking large, complicated scenarios to explain the majors shifts in molar evolution during the course of hominin origins, we found that simple adjustments and alterations to this one developmental rule can account for most of those changes,» says Alejandra Ortiz, a postdoctoral researcher at Arizona State University's Institute of Human Origins and lead author of the study.

«This is very different from the fallback we've often had for kids — life skills,» Vargas says, referring to the «life adjustment» movement that started in the 1940s that believed the smartest 20 percent of young Americans should have an academic curriculum, 20 percent a vocational curriculum, and the remaining 60 percent — «the sludge in the system,» as Graham says they were known — simple life skills: check writing and personal hygiene, for example.

It might sound like common sense, but sometimes making these simple adjustments is easier said than done.