Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...must compete where it can--in high-tech, high-skill industries that less developed countries can't touch. That's why Clinton's plan to invest in (or spend more on) education, job retraining, better communications and transportation and so on makes so much sense. Only this sort of plan will make the country competitive for the future...
Like most years, the economy is the issue this year. But unlike most years, the candidate with the best plan to heal the economy is obvious. Bill Clinton would rebuild America's skill and roads. He would initiate a moderate and careful technology and industrial policy (one that doesn't subsidize failure but does provide federal money for business cooperation) to make the country competitive...
Aside from the skewed balance sheets, there are serious doubts about the country's intrinsic health. Its educational system is in crisis, its industries faltering, its investment in itself too meager. "In a world whose workers require ever more basic education, technological savvy and specialized skill," Marvin Cetron and Owen Davies write in their book Crystal Globe, "America's schools are the least successful in the Western world." Says ! Brookings' Steinbruner: "There's no way of overcoming disparity in economic fortune without overcoming the disparity in education." U.S. spending on civilian research and development is 10th in the world...
...exhibition at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the very antitype of the great Matisse show 30 blocks downtown at the Museum of Modern Art: darkness, Baroque realism and a relentless admixture of piety with sadistic guignol, all done at the highest level of skill and conviction. Surprisingly, given the enormous reputation Ribera had in his day, this is the first comprehensive exhibition of his work ever held in America, or for that matter in Europe (it was previously shown in Naples and Madrid). It rounds off the series of shows by Spanish artists of the 17th...
presented in reverse chronological order. Givethe most space to the most important experience.If you have several years of experience in yourcareer field, your resume will focus on morespecific accomplishments and skills. If you haveyears of work experience in several fields or arechanging fields, a resume organized by skill areasmay be more appropriate than a chronologicalresume...