to relaxto matureto harvestto reflectIt is more meaningful than other stages of life.

It's the stage in the middle of the journey when people feel youth vanishing, their prospects narrowing and death approaching.

In his book, Team of Teams, General Stanley McChrystal describes how the army's hierarchical structure hindered its operations during the early stages of the Iraq war.

I've broken eggs at every stage of the process—from the very beginning to the very, very end.

A look at what goes on in most classrooms these days makes it abundantly clear that when people think about education, they are not thinking about what it feels like to be a child, or what makes childhood an important and valuable stage of life in its own right.

In Japan,once when I was in the studio audience of a TV cooking show, I was asked to go up on the stage and taste the beef dish that was being prepared and tell what I thought.

His product launches, at which he would stand alone on a black stage and produce as if by magic an "incredible" new electronic gadget?（小器具）in front of an amazed crowd, were the performances of a master showman.

Millions of American families may now be in the initial stage of their responses to the current crisis, working together and supporting one another through the early months of unemployment.

The impact of a salary cut is probably less severe for a scientist in the early stages of a career.

The 4-H girls planted trees and took care of them during the early stages of growth.

A study by the University of Manchester calculated the emissions of CO2—the main greenhouse gas responsible for climate change—at every stage of microwaves, from manufacture to waste disposal.

In Japan, once when I was in the studio audience of a TV cooking show, I was asked to go up on the stage and taste the beef dish that was being prepared and tell what I thought.

Just lengthening that second stage of full-time work may secure the financial assets needed for a 100-year life, but such persistent work will inevitably exhaust precious intangible assets such as productive skills, vitality, happiness, and friendship.

The result is that the commitments that previously characterized the beginning of adulthood are now being delayed, and new patterns of behavior and a new stage of life are emerging for those in their twenties.

with this variety will come the end of the close association of age and stage.

After the high-pressure Countdown round at this year's national MathCounts competition, in which the top 12 students went head to head solving complex problems in rapid fire, the finalists for the Math Video Challenge took the stage to show their videos.

Even the technology press conferences, which have been high-profile in the past and reached a level of drama and theatrics fitting for a Las Vegas stage, have a different bent to them.

When performing, he positions his instruments in a way that is deliberately inconvenient, so that switching from guitar to organ mid-song involves a mad dash across the stage.

In 2010,the Institution of Mechanical Engineers identified three principal emerging population groups across the world, based on characteristics associated with their current and projected stage of economic development

This will help improve produce handling in the harvest, and immediate post-harvest stages of food production.

At certain stages of life, especially adolescence, the pressure to be seen as similar to peers is immense.

But if you look at who walks across the stage for a diploma, it's still largely the white, upper-income population.

They tested four separate groups at four key stages of Obama's presidential campaign.

The baby watches a sort of show on a small stage.

In Act One of the show, a yellow cube is lifted from a blue box, and moved across the stage

The weight of the boxes moving across the stage.

Well, that was the first stage.

How did the second stage of the experiment differ from the first stage?

In 1951 he moved to New York to do more stage acting.

After the high-pressure Countdown round at this year's national Math Counts competition, in which the top 12 students went head to head solving complex problems in rapid fire, the finalists for the Math video Challenge took the stage to show their videos.

But put a deadline on the input stage and arrive at a decision, even if it's a decision that doesn't have consensus.

Even the technology press conferences, which have been high-profile in the past and reached a level of drama and theatrics fitting for a Las Vegas stage, have a different bent to them.

Evolutionarily speaking, people in this age group are at a stage in which they can prepare to find a mate and start their own family while separating from parents and striking out on their own.

For a brief moment during that stage of its life cycle, the tongue consists of two tiny half-tubes before merging into one.

This policy sets the stage for the Department of Commerce to take over the management of traffic in space.