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step

/tread on (someone's) toes

To hurt, offend, or encroach on the feelings, actions, or province of.

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Next, slowly use the food lure (right at your dog's nose) to lure his front paws up onto the first step.

A Step Up for Senior Dogs: If jumping down from a bed or couch is difficult and painful for your arthritic dog, the right set of pet stairs may provide just the right "crutch"

A teacher with a master's degree and 30 additional credits has moved two lanes, or is considered in the third lane, and will make a base salary of $45,864 in step one this year.

Understanding the wage schedule

6 : the sound of a footstep <I heard steps in the hall.

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Step 3: Keep turning to the right and place your left hand on the floor or on a support on the inside of your right foot (Revolved Triangle Pose).

Strike a pose & Breeeeathe: Michelle Keenan asks Asheville's top yogis to teach us their favorite poses

Step 5--Who gets it to analyze and what is the product they produce?

Commander's corner

She is a faculty member for the ACPE course Business Innovation: 12 Steps to Prioritize New Opportunities.

The 12-step innovation roadmap: how to analyze and prioritize new business ideas

To slow down, the athlete must use chop steps, or short and quick steps, to decelerate the body.

Increasing speed and change of direction with one technique

In this program, participants first receive information, learn basic stress releasing and imagery skills, followed by brief experiences with the four key steps to a mind-body method for performing at their highest level.

The mind-body connection stress reduction for musicians

The steps highlight topic selection, gathering resources, developing a thesis statement, organizing evidence, and peer review.

Improving the research paper in theatre history

FINISH Step sideways onto step, squeezing your buttocks and pressing your body weight into your right foot.

The GL Bikini Body Workout: with sun, surf and handsome hotties looming on the horizon, it's time to strut the sand with a whole new body-lovin' attitude. Let our works-for-everybody workout help you get your bikini-best bod

Step Seven: What to Expect After the IRS Receives Your Offer

IRS and AICPA collaborate on OIC program

This is the first step to implementing change, and it can reduce the frustrations that arise when people try to treat common-cause variations as solvable problems.

Seven steps to successfully implementing change

But many Catholics involved in 12-Step programs, including John, find that the steps mesh well with Catholicism.

Recovering grace: Catholics suffering from addictions to everything from alcohol to food are finding spiritual wisdom and serenity from the 12 Steps

Otis Elevator Company unveiled its NextStepT escalator - a breakthrough global product that employs a unique GuardedT step design and several other new features that mark a comprehensive advance in escalator technology and safety.

Otis Elevator introduces new technology. (Technology)

Even more intriguing, the researchers found that the addition of the left-handed version of aspartic acid, an amino acid, created a step pattern in calcite crystals opposite to that seen with the addition of the right-handed version.