If I reply with "K," I'm just being more informal.
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"Everything's got more informal," one person familiar with the dinner said.
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Hundreds of thousand more are displaced and living in more informal conditions.
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The most valued photographs, Mr. Kang said, were the more informal ones.
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So my brain would sort of short-circuit in more informal situations.
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Caucuses are more informal, attract smaller turnouts and are dominated by party activists.
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They also have more informal ways of forcing the Trump administration to comply.
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Networking sounds intimidating, but it's a lot more informal than you might think.
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GIF stickers allow you to be way more informal than you used to be.
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Whereas if there was no period, it was seen as more informal, more friendly.
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It doesn't get more informal than zero paperwork, but she's humoring the singer nonetheless.
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The two leaders met in April and held a more informal meeting in May.
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Da Roberta ("Roberta's") is infinitely more informal: a food truck gone brick-and-mortar.
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Reporters will commonly have more informal gaggles when White House press briefings aren't held.
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But neighborhood cookie swaps and even more informal exchanges are increasingly hard to find.
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Then things got more informal, and the market became flooded with high-quality fakes.
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A personal account might want to publish with a more informal, colloquial and intimate style.
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In fact, the language of politics has been growing more informal for half a century.
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I love color and pieces that make me feel good, but it's much more informal.
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A hitherto hidebound place is turning into something more informal, more open and more varied.
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There are scores more informal settler outposts, some of which have also received government funding.
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However, when it comes to more informal Christmas fish-related feasting, Italians do it better.
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Oddly, though, e-mails grew more informal as the list of addressees expanded beyond ten.
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Another restaurant, Lobby, with an elegant coffered ceiling, is a more informal, all-day cafe.
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Flowers were bunched up against the path, offering a more informal, hey-what's-up greeting.
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These inline chatting features make Front much more informal and I think more efficient as well.
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More recently he has been serving as a more informal technology adviser to CEO Satya Nadella.
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The White House has not said whether records will be kept of these more informal calls.
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He coaxed his subjects into more informal poses that gave his work a lively, vibrant quality.
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First, the presidency is powerful and guided by many more informal guidelines than formal constitutional restrictions.
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Maybe not, though the Big Board acknowledged signs of more informal interest in direct listings. Sony.
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It has reopened with a more informal approach, communal tables and prepared foods to take away.
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Prince William, Kate Middleton, Prince Harry, and Meghan Markle also seem to favor more informal greetings.
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Yet the designer's feminine and romantic collection was balanced out with more informal fabrics such as cotton.
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The team says it's already negotiating ad deals for its biggest podcasters in a more informal capacity.
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For a more informal vibe, some couples and wedding parties upgrade sneakers by subbing out standard laces.
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The Trumps previously met with the Queen at Windsor Castle last June, a more informal meeting over tea.
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Workplaces are far more informal than they used to be, with less emphasis on protocol, rank and authority.
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When people speak about games being "addictive", for instance, they're using the term in its more informal sense.
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However, there are other, more informal ways employers can conduct checks that don't require your approval in advance.
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In addition, there's also a lot more informal, complementary, different types of learning, which is a different experience.
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And so we have the proliferation of the pod, or its more informal cousin, the noise-damping chair.
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A year ago, the team behind Miles opened a more informal restaurant nearby: Mampuku (Japanese for "full belly").
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ALTESI DOWNTOWN At this new branch of his Upper East Side restaurant, Paolo Alavian takes a more informal approach.
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That could involve going through the formal process of writing new regulations, or it could even be something more informal.
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The seven men still get together regularly in a more informal way, but very much support each other every day.
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Even as help wanted ads ask for credentials, most security pros believe there are more informal ways to prove skill.
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Any potential arrangement would be more informal, like a confidence-and-supply agreement, or on a vote-by-vote basis.
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The camps are more informal than prisons, Sessa said, as there are no electric fences and inmates stay in dorms.
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Trump's first hours in both Japan and China will be spent in more informal settings instead of in serious negotiations.
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However, he was planning on bringing her to the larger (and more informal) post-church party at the Middleton family's home.
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Overall, the celebrity stories we've seen thus far feel less filtered and more informal than the posts on their Instagram profiles.
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Experts say that may explain why more informal, on-demand delivery options took so long to gain traction in the country.
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I think this is our twelfth formal bilateral meeting, but we've obviously seen each other on many other more informal occasions.
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The more informal engagement photos were taken by Misan Harriman, a photographer and the founder of publishing platform What We Seee.
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But I think most of the time, politicians and politics need to adapt to a much more informal sort of culture.
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Zoe says that although her food waste group never really took off, her friends now share in a more informal way.
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The two still talk, and as an hourly lawyer Barnett doesn't sign a typical agent deal, so splitting up is more informal.
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While many of the best Vine users were performers, Vine itself was a more informal space than YouTube or Twitter or Instagram.
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WeChat then gives you a digital black-and-white ID card that works for more informal uses like registering at internet cafes.
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This should provide a more informal environment in which the two leaders can establish an initial relationship, critical for U.S.-China relations.
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Michelin is awarding stars to more informal restaurants, luxury restaurant group D&D London's CEOBut Michelin's method for assessing stars hasn't changed.
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It creates a voice that is energetic and more informal than the institutional one, and it could be a model going forward.
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The mom-to-be spent some time playing with kids, and she was dressed in a decidedly more informal way for the occasion.
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Micromanagement Is Necessary One reason people may want to work for a startup is that the company culture is more informal and relaxed.
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He has emphasized the idea of employees being 'unbossed' and accountable to make decisions, as well as a more informal, jeans-wearing culture.
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Of course, if you're tight with the boss or your office culture is more informal, jokes and, yes, even emojis are fair game.
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Most drug cases in the United States are decided well before they reach trial, by the far more informal process of plea bargaining.
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Its setting is not a town or an institution, but something with a less definite shape and a more informal reason for being.
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Other more informal methods work, like Uber's suggestion to find an Uber driver with a military ID or meet your driver at the gate.
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Louie Swisher: Not all the data is saved, and like it's not ... the text feels more formal, in a sense, and Snapchat's more informal.
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Generations of American political leaders and government officials have sought and successfully developed more informal mechanisms of control, from economic pressure to CIA intervention.
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A top competitor, JPMorgan Chase, took the leap into business casual nearly three years ago, making a more informal look the default dress code.
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"Though the business world is more informal today than in the past," Pachter recommended avoiding laid-back, colloquial expressions like "folks" in business communications.
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"President Rios Montt had been impressed by news of this 'interchange' and wished to encourage more informal meetings between the armed forces," one telegram reads.
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Earlier on Tuesday, the DUP's leader said the agreement, which is expected to be more informal than a coalition, could be "sooner rather than later".
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" Others pointed to more informal phrases that are popular in China, such as "If you can do it, do it; if you can't, shut up.
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But The Upshot has always adopted a more informal, conversational tone, so we decided a long time ago that "Obamacare" was O.K. in that context.
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Companies are also turning to more informal alliances and coalitions, which have proven to be easier to navigate than trying to forge industry-wide consensus.
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In the meantime, while judicial impeachment is possible, it's very rare, and so America relies on more informal means of policing the mental faculties of judges.
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One of his options would be to appoint a neutral figure to mediate via more informal talks than those that take place in the presidential palace.
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The administration has long said it will look for new ways of engaging with the press, including more informal press meetings that are not widely broadcast.
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Down the road from Bethel, a more informal reunion with music was taking place to mark the weekend in a style reminiscent of 50 years ago.
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However, he was planning on bringing her to the larger (and more informal) post-church party at the Middleton family's home in nearby Buckleberry that evening.
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The process comes after months of more informal contact between the White House and the Clinton and Sanders campaigns and is still in its early stages.
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Mr. Biden's campaign and Mr. Buttigieg's remaining aides then scrambled to schedule the earlier, more informal joint appearance with just the former mayor and Mr. Biden.
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Mr. Biden's campaign and Mr. Buttigieg's remaining aides then scrambled to schedule the earlier, more informal joint appearance with just the former mayor and Mr. Biden.
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While comparable clients like Zoom have features designed primarily for project management and work, Discord is primarily designed around socialization, and has a more informal aesthetic.
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In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, border security received renewed attention, but the Bush administration still prioritized the more informal returns over removals.
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"The idea is that employers prefer arbitration because it promises 'quicker, more informal, and often cheaper resolutions for everyone involved,'" the 2000th Circuit wrote, quoting Epic.
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Committee chair Bob Goodlatte issued a subpoena in late March seeking to compel production of documents, an escalation from the more informal negotiations up to that point.
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First time readers of Debord's work may prefer to read Comments first, since it is a brisker and more informal read than The Society of the Spectacle.
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In the letter, he wrote that he never inappropriately approached or touched anyone and that his office was just "more informal" than the offices of other congressmen.
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So instead of using their full name, they're using their first name as a way to make them much more informal and add warmth to their candidacy.
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But there are also more informal missions, ones that are often directed by Putin himself with the help of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), the KGB's successor.
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It's not yet clear when it will be rescheduled, as negotiations have been ongoing over whether it will be a transcribed interview or a more informal meeting.
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A bipartisan group engaging in more informal discussions, however, seems to be having more luck, but it's not clear if their ultimate product will be able to pass.
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The topic is likely to come up during formal one-on-one meetings between finance ministers or during the more informal chats on the sidelines of the conference.
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Of course, you can't write about McSorley's without having a lot of history in there, but it's a more informal history of the bar than a rigorous history.
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They were a more informal way to document not just the facts of an interaction but also personal impressions and analysis to help put those facts into context.
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America's relationship to language has become more informal by the decade since the 1960s, just as it has to dress, sexual matters, culinary habits, dance and much else.
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Different from Insite, which is officially categorized as a "supervised consumption site," the overdose prevention sites are more informal, less medicalized, and require fewer regulatory approvals to start up.
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Every best practice Olson has seen comes back to communication, especially since the more informal desk-side and water-cooler chats are not a realistic option for remote teams.
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There are some state laws that bind them to vote according to the popular vote outcome in that state; others are bound by more informal pledges to their party.
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Opening a more informal venue than the Trump International Hotel could allow less-wealthy groups to work with the Trump Organization under the Scion brand name, according to the Post.
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The wall between the dining room and the galley kitchen came down to give the first floor an airier, more informal feel, and to create the family's chief gathering place.
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It promises to take its millennial wearers from "bed to street," in keeping with their boundary-blurred lifestyles and a more informal approach to clothes than the generations before them.
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But also, a company should support people recognizing each other in smaller, more informal ways, often leveraging recognition platforms for timely call-outs for behaviors that reflect the core values.
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The singer began the show in a colorful orange, blue, purple, and white sparkly jumpsuit, but then disappeared, according to The Tennessean, only to return in a much more informal ensemble.
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Instead, Bolton has preferred to arrange shorter and more informal sessions with the President and other National Security Council officials, believing that a smaller environment is better suited to Trump's style.
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The Turkish government's more informal approach means most Syrians there are not in ghettos, as they are in parts of Europe, nor in camps, as they are in Jordan and Lebanon.
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"She could go for something lavish and romantic by Marchesa or upmarket luxe by Ralph & Russo," says Alexander, who also speculates something a little more informal could be in the cards.
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Successful, high-trust countries like Sweden are vulnerable to this sort of difficulty: they may be happy to welcome outsiders, but can be harder to penetrate than looser, more informal places.
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But the victim here has opted for a more informal punishment process: So while the perpetrator hasn't been officially sanctioned, clearly everyone in the office knows that she stole a lunch.
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While some set up more informal rackets, such as Lieutenant-Governor Walter F. Hale who was accused of monopolizing the rice trade, others established businesses like the Benguet Consolidated Mining Company.
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As Alex Kaufman at HuffPost reports, a DNC committee may vote in August on two resolutions: one to hold a formal climate debate, and one to arrange a more informal forum.
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But in more informal discussions since then, members of both caucuses have explored ways a bipartisan coalition might step in to legislate amid the impossibly large internal divisions in the Republican majority.
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It's a different style, and one that might clash with people who are more informal in these situations, but it's really about personal style and how you want to represent yourself through language.
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A separate (albeit more informal) study found that non-married people are more likely to stay in touch with friends, neighbors, and family, as well as feel more a part of their communities.
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Atla Enrique Olvera, the much-lauded Mexican chef, will open a second New York restaurant, with about 60 seats and more informal than Cosme, in early fall: 372 Lafayette Street (Great Jones Street).
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At Stanford, a Boehner unburdened by the shackles of the office, reportedly drew laughter and smiles from the attendees as he struck a more informal tone than he had in past previous appearances.
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With the average finished product being around 40 seconds in length, KnowMe videos are definitely more polished and engaging than a vine or Instagram video, but feel more informal than something on YouTube.
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"Even if Taiwan is not able to have formal relations with other democracies, there are very good opportunities for Taiwan to engage with those countries in a more informal way," Mr. Wu said.
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Snowflake will be open to researchers in fields as diverse as telecommunication, biotech, clean agriculture, robotics, and artificial intelligence systems, but it may also host more informal guests like students, media, or dignitaries.
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"In our design, government leaders can change positions between group settings or bilateral talks, and can choose sides on opposing benches or have a dialogue in a more informal setting," XML told Hyperallergic.
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LinkedIn's culture is more informal than what he was used to, and the hiring manager learned that she needed to coach him to speak up in meetings with superiors if he had differing opinions.
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One note of caution though: While it won't be out of place to be more informal, let's not forget that LinkedIn is ultimately meant to be the place for your professional social media network.
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These commercial models cost $8,000 but this new sensor will cost about one dollar, making it a massive step up in hydration sensing and opening the potential use cases to more informal sensing jobs.
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So while a true Master Chef/Iron Chef square-off might never happen, we did offer Flay the opportunity to help us with a more informal (and completely unofficial) contest: his scrambled eggs against Ramsay's.
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You can choose from two different types of teachers: professional teachers, who are certified in foreign language instruction, and community tutors, who are native or advanced teachers and can offer a more informal teaching experience.
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Tony Purnell, former principal of Formula One motor racing teams Jaguar and Red Bull, is the latest boss of British Cycling's Research and Innovation department — or to give it its more informal title "Head of Stuff".
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An even more informal survey of my friends and acquaintances (as in, I asked on Facebook) revealed parents paying per book, minute or page in currencies that ranged from Shopkins toys to screen time to cash.
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"The idea is that employers prefer arbitration because it promises 'quicker, more informal, and often cheaper resolutions for everyone involved,'" the 11th Circuit wrote, quoting the U.S. Supreme Court's 2018 ruling in Epic Systems v. Lewis.
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Roberto Deiaco, who with his wife, Giselle Deiaco, installed Avena Ristorante and Bar in the former Da Silvano space this year, has now added a more informal sibling next door, in what was Da Silvano Cantinetta.
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At the more informal Journeys, the menu changed daily to reflect a different culinary destination, though I preferred its permanent selection of traditional Sri Lankan dishes, like coconut-sauced prawns and local banana-leaf-baked fish.
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On occasion -- as he did when he recently popped by an off-the-record meeting chief of staff John Kelly was having with reporters -- Trump will spend time answering questions in the more informal "gaggle" setting.
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Mar-a-Lago will, however, provide the two a more informal setting for interaction and give Trump the chance to "break the ice" without the formality of a White House meet up, a White House official said.
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But when you're speaking to your friends, when you're out at a bar, when you're talking on the phone, maybe to your close family, you can use more informal language and a little bit more of your style.
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The two leaders, who first met in April in a highly publicized summit and then again in May for more informal talks, previously agreed to meet again sometime in the fall in Pyongyang but released no concrete details.
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His meeting with Macron at the Élysée Palace on Saturday morning is the only meeting with another world leader on his schedule, though more informal encounters are possible at the Armistice ceremony and a subsequent lunch on Sunday.
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Third, the group's large network of formal provinces, such as ISIS-Sinai and ISIS-Libya, and more informal networks, such as ISIS-Greater Sahara and ISIS-East Asia, allow the group to project a threat of outsized proportions.
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Light, crisp, refreshing Valpolicella used to be a famous name among Italian reds, but it has been overshadowed by its sibling in the Veneto region of northeastern Italy, Amarone della Valpolicella, better known by the more informal Amarone.
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Not only was he not speaking ex cathedra (the rarely used mechanism by which popes can speak "infallibly") but he had also chosen to use an apostolic exhortation — a more informal mode of address — to get his point across.
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In talks that were described as friendly — and later during more informal dinner outings in each capital — the trade teams believed they were forging significant progress on Trump's goal of striking a deal that ends some of China's troublesome economic practices.
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He said he had clients who received letters from JPMorgan and UBS as well as other clients who had been encouraged to participate through more informal conversations with bankers at Citigroup Inc and Wells Fargo & Co. The banks declined to comment.
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With his international experience he embodies a more informal leadership style as Daimler seeks to embrace Silicon Valley management tactics to compete with tech rivals like Waymo and Byton in a race to put self-driving cars on the road.
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Kim and Moon met in April at a highly publicized summit that saw the leaders hold hands and walk together across the border, and then again in a more informal summit in May, just weeks before Kim met Trump in Singapore.
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In recent years, the University of Texas system has been taking many of the steps the report recommended, said Wanda Mercer, associate vice chancellor for student affairs, including making survey data public and providing more informal ways to report harassment allegations.
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So, Joseph Goldstein wrote for the Times, they might try to engage in more informal conversation when commands (like "drop the knife") don't work, try to back up to a safer distance, and try to be patient with an uncooperative suspect.
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They argue that the team's more aggressive tactics might end up being counterproductive, especially if some grand jury witnesses turn out to be more guarded than they would have been in a more informal setting or invoke the Fifth Amendment.
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Press secretaries do not always perform their duties on TV. Like his predecessors in Democratic and Republican administrations, Mr. Spicer speaks with journalists in more informal, off-the-air settings several times a week — when the president is traveling, for instance.
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With the switch to casual speech, he's trying, at least for a while, to turn a formal, work-related interaction between medical professionals into a more informal interaction between people who are not just medical professionals and colleagues, but potential weed purchasers.
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"A show must always include contemporary pointers as well as the historical ones, if visitors are to successfully make sense of it,'' she continued, "and we are currently in an ever more informal era that embraces the gap between dress and undress.
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Instead, in order to be elected, a speaker will have to agree to take a much lighter touch, perhaps letting different factions with the party control different committees, perhaps making sure different factions each get representation on the Rules Committee, perhaps something more informal.
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Wihout the systems of support that Western artists rely upon to establish their practices — grants, residencies, quality art schools, a complex gallery system, various kinds of museums, and an arts press — art education, and the visibility of artists, become much more informal and precarious affairs.
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And while its ambience couldn't be more informal, with a raw bar, lobster rolls, fish tacos, corn and burgers, it has full waiter service for the 600 or so guests it can accommodate at a 100-foot stretch of bar, at banquettes and at tables.
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In 1865, tired of fussy white-tie evening dress with coattails, the fashionable Bertie asked Poole to design a more informal ensemble — "a short silk smoking jacket with silk collar and cuffs, lined silk; a pair of trousers to match" — for entertaining at his country home in Sandringham.
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NO MORE INFORMAL CHATS Engineers and system architects representing their employers at meetings of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), a global consortium of industry associations that aims to set 5G specifications by March 2020, often take formal, general discussions into smaller, less documented sessions as they try to find agreement with rivals.
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AOC's office released a more informal FAQ alongside the Green New Deal resolution that goes beyond the finalized proposal, and one version throws a tongue-in-cheek mention to "farting cows" — as in, they'll still be around in 10 years, and that's why the GND goal is net-zero rather than zero emissions.
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What's interesting is when I talked to members who have this policy or who have similar, more informal policies in their offices, like not letting a female staffer drive them around, I felt that the idea that this could be preventing these female staffers from advancing in their careers honestly had not occurred to them.
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Depending on which poll you're reading, between 16.5 percent and a quarter of French LGBTQ voters supported the Front National (FN) late last year; according to another, more informal poll by the gay dating app Hornet, over one-third of gay men overall planned to vote for Le Pen in the second round of the recent French election.
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One official said there had not been extensive conversations between US and Ukrainian officials about what each leader would say during the open-press part of Wednesday's meeting, though they could not rule out more informal discussions, namely between Trump and Zelensky during the diplomatic reception or between Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and his Ukrainian interlocutors.
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None of the witnesses are household names, but all could have information on the Trump administration's activities in Ukraine — as well as Trump personal attorney Rudy GiulianiRudy GiulianiTrump says he doesn't want NYT in the White House Diplomat who raised Ukraine concerns to testify in Trump impeachment probe Pelosi releases 'fact sheet' saying Trump has 'betrayed his oath of office' MORE's more informal foreign policy role on behalf of the president.
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