Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going into this with my eyes wide open," Sullivan said. "I'm planning to look at strengths, weaknesses, see work habits, skill habits, get feedback from last year's staff, and then I'll be able to make valid assessments...
...quickly string together an argument from a semester's worth of reading and lectures. In many science exams, professors allow you to bring in a page of notes, but I have never found that too helpful. You have to be able to apply the formulas to the problems, a skill that can only be gained by months of problem set drudgery...
...system now employed by the White House to ensure confirmation for its nominees closely resembles the kind of preening and priming that goes on before a Presidential debate. For the few weeks before the hearings began, Thomas was surrounded by a White House gaggle of advisers known for their skill in preparing candidates for public appearances. (Dan Quayle was not their greatest triumph...
...learn from them about issues he had never been familiar with, like economic privatization and the Baltics' case for independence. "Despite his age, he is teachable," says Galina Starovoitova, a senior Soviet and Russian national legislator and a longtime ally of the late Andrei Sakharov. "He has a skill at listening to people...
...Good family policy is cost effective. The confusion and stress and emotional deprivation in the home are robbing our children of the chance to succeed. We are facing a growing labor shortage in this country. Yet because of the rising skill demands of the workplace, many of our dropouts are simply unemployable. A technology-based economy cannot absorb workers who are not literate and who lack rudimentary mathematical skills...