Kid in the pond, kid in the pond, ran repetitively through his head as he minced.

NEWYORKER: Tenth of December

Anything you do repetitively will activate the neurons in your brain, which makes the action more likely to be repeated in the future.

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Yet they were also profoundly disturbed, given to staring blankly and rocking in place for long periods, circling their cages repetitively, and mutilating themselves.

NEWYORKER: Hellhole

But they are individuals who collided heads on every play repetitively doing this, year after year, under levels that were tolerable for them to continue to play.

NEWYORKER: Offensive Play

"It's difficult to apply critical, scientific methods to determine that a particular action done repetitively over a number of hours will result in injury, " says Russell E.

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These include disciplined project management skills that will allow a company to process a resource play as efficiently as if it were an assembly line, repetitively drilling and fracking and completing wells one after another with a rabid eye on cost control.

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