Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Probably when I started, I liked the physical aspects more," junior forward-captain Liza Studen, who played field hockey in high school, says. "Now I like the strategy and offensive side more. Size-wise, we're smaller than almost every team we play. We really use our skill and speed...
...Federal Emergency Management Agency fell into place so smoothly that the whole scene looked like a hideously realistic drill. Air Force and National Guard units and fbi counterterrorist teams and forensic specialists began to arrive in early afternoon. They joined 60 fire fighters from Phoenix, Arizona, summoned for their skill in extracting bodies from rubble. A planeload of 100 of the city's leading doctors heading for a medical retreat in Houston heard the news when they landed, got back on the next plane and came home to work...
...just because anyone can buy ammonium nitrate for about 11¢ a pound doesn't mean that anyone can make it explode at a particular time and place. The act of terror that demolished the Murrah building and destroyed scores of human lives required a basic understanding of chemistry, skill at bombmaking and some technical know-how to jury-rig a few key components that are not easy...
Rugby is not really played at the varsity level in the U.S., but its status as a club sport has not stopped its growth. At Harvard, anyone who tries out for the team automatically makes it, and the team just creates different sides to match skill levels...
...description requires candidates to havea "minimum of 15 years of communications/publicaffairs experience preferable in a complex anddecentralized environment requiring skill in bothjournalism and advocacy...