Make an impact - eye contact, no distracting pens!

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Once the interviewer greets you, make eye contact and offer a palm-to-palm handshake that is not too strong and not too weak.

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Interestingly, they made the same claim about the original law even though it required police officers to make little more than eye contact before launching a full-blown inquiry into someone's immigration status.

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One oft-cited myth about Japanese, that they rarely make eye contact, is not really true.

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For the photographers themselves, work like this can be more liberating than shooting magazine covers, which with few exceptions (W, for one) come with lots of rules: the subject must make eye contact, must be smiling, must be conservatively made-up, etc.

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At Bi-Rite, the beloved San Francisco market, employees are urged to make eye contact if a customer is within 10 feet and to say hello within 4.

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Dr. Friedman surveyed the room, clearly attempting to make eye contact with the closest suspect, though unfortunately that suspect was Janey Filch, wall-eyed and so shy she looked ready to faint.

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