Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...search in the archives even further back finds Guhan Subramanian '92, who was chair of the Student Assembly in 1989-90. The strongest skill he says he gained was "being able to manage and coordinate the efforts of, what was back then, 85 people, and to motivate and excite a large group of people like that to do things." He still keeps in touch with the then-treasurer and secretary, and also keeps contact with other council people on a "professional basis--a lot of them are all over the place doing all sorts of different things." Some...
...Consultants frequently refer to a person's "skill set," that is, a rapidly evolving set of abilities that allow people like "Powerhouse" Wang to address a variety of challenges. The chance to expand this "skill set" is supposed to be one of the most attractive aspects of working in consulting right out of college. "Consultants learn as much in their first two years of work as they would in the first four years of any other job," Tom explains. Wang likens it to "a mathematical problem, when you define the boundaries first and then think creatively within those boundaries...
...Gondoliers. It didn't matter that my chorus role was miniscule. To the interviewer, I was now "talented" and worthy of his respect. Forget about judging or self-segregating based on ethnicity--we at Harvard are too righteous and politically correct. We only self-segregate based on skill. We are trapped in the middle-school mentality that only the people who have crimped hair and slap bracelets are worthy of playing seven minutes in heaven...
...some of the only ice carvers in the region, the skill and reputation that Fontecchio and Georgs have developed are precious assets...
What keeps moviegoers watching is, well, Hoffman himself, embodying these down-and-outers with a skill and conviction that are swiftly making him Hollywood's most unlikely leading man since that other Hoffman, Dustin, stammered through The Graduate the year Philip was born. By year's end the 32-year-old actor will appear not only in Flawless, but also in two of this Oscar season's most anticipated offerings: as a compassionate nurse in Anderson's Magnolia and as an expatriate blueblood in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley...