But while we're used to ignoring commercials for soda, beer and new cars, we're not quite as apt at tuning out the endless begging meant to shame listeners into handing over their money.
Online education will allow universities to do that even better: for one, they will provide a way for the best teachers to be recognized and promoted for something other than just research, a long time concern in the APT process at research universities.
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National pride is one reason: even law-abiding Colombians are still apt to bridle at the humiliating memory of Mr Lehder, shackled hand and foot, being bundled on to a plane by United States marshals.
It is apt to come irregularly, at some times and places not at all.
It's a quick exchange, but an apt illustration of the issue at the crux of this play, which is that this brash young American cannot conceive of what family means to this elderly Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust and the deaths of her immediate family.
The regular Sunday concerts start at 4 pm at 555 Edgecombe Avenue, apt 3F.
But the researchers noted that they mounted less often, were less apt to penetrate and did not stick at it for as long as the normal mice.
And those marketing opportunities don't translate as well in the online and mobile worlds, where customers are apt to remain focused on the transaction at hand, says Will Weidman, vice president of Applied Predictive Technologies, a software and analytics company that works with financial institutions.
To be fair, any comparison between PCs and toys you'd buy at the mall is not quite apt.
The results really caught my attention because the survey highlights the issues of fees at a time when clients are apt to be a little testy when their next statements come and their account valuations are down.
Given that we're just days away from seeing what's apt to be a flood of these things at CES, Intel's new Ultrabook portal (and linked "Ultra Excited For Ultrabooks" preview paper) is priming the masses for what to expect.
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This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal.
Organisers say the city is an apt host as half the global crop comes from varieties bred at the James Hutton Institute on the outskirts of Dundee.
Spain's "Furia Roja" "The Red Fury", and rarely has a nickname felt so apt have enjoyed an unprecedented hegemony over world soccer at the national team level for the past six years.
Geoffrey Hewings, an economist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, explains that Illinois is apt to enter business cycles later than the country, but that its downturns are usually deeper and longer.
They also are apt to leave the market after it has dropped, therefore selling at a lower price.
Measured lead levels in our bodies tend to peak at 21 months an age when toddlers are apt to put their fingers into their mouths.
Another apt prize went to two Britons in 1998 for work to bring peace at last to Northern Ireland.
Norway already requires that financial services firms record calls and Spain is apt to be next in Europe, while Switzerland and Singapore are looking at introducing mobile recording regulation.
Sometimes, when Cuca had learned to play a whole piece, the maid and the cook would come to listen, too, and the lawyer, filled with pride, would hear them murmur words of praise, which struck him at first as excessive, but then, on reflection, seemed perfectly apt.
Early reports positioned the service as the Xbox's answer to AirPlay, a description that proved fairly apt, though Microsoft certainly went a ways toward fleshing that perception out during a demo at its event.
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Users will also enjoy improved performance and a high-quality experience with the built in apt-X codec technology, which boosts the Bluetooth speaker's extensive dynamic range, particularly at the top end.
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Folks at Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, and other major organizations are just as apt to fall victim to the intricacies of what needs to be disclosed and when as their counterparts at smaller shops.
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In fact, Qatar may prove to be an unusually apt host for U.N. climate talks, since it offers delegates an up-close look at the problems underlying climate change.
The BOE also declined to add to its Asset Purchase Target (APT), another acronym in the alphabet soup of names for quantitative easing programs, leaving it on hold at 375 billion.
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The exhibition Zaha Hadid: Form in Motion at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, full of her biomorphic, fluid product design, is an apt descriptor of Hadid herself: Dynamic, unapologetic and utterly fearless.
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Targeting high-value policyholders, winning their loyalty and focusing on retention take on new importance, especially at a time of far-reaching organizational and business-process change, when customer relationships are apt to fray and attrition rates spike.
The problem with an APT-style attack is there are so many ways to get in, so organizations should look more closely at introducing Multi-Factor Authentication in the cloud, as the new PCI Virtualization Guidelines strongly recommend.
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