Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sara was a very strong choice...because she brought both tremendous skill and energy to work in developing countries," Sachs said...
...Hazel Barkley, 18th-and-Vine's operations manager, is a believer. She tells her welfare-to-work employees they can rise as far as they set their mind to. (Sprint reimburses tuition for skill-boosting classes.) And she lets them know she herself started by working the phones. Yvette Johnson has already picked out a computer-spreadsheet class she wants to take during her daily noon-to-2 p.m. break, and she's aiming for management. "There's a lot of things we can do here," she says. "One thing I know, I won't be on welfare again...
...control company Terminix is running to test a new pesticide called chlorfenapyr. The chemical was applied last week; in a month, Terminix will be back to see how well it has worked. If the bugs are gone, friends and family will pitch in to help repair the damage--a skill Patrick's father Virgil Beyers Sr. honed 20 years ago when Formosan termites nearly destroyed his house. With any luck, Kayla Beyers, 4, won't have to do it all over again two decades from...
...even wanted to become teachers. But there are better things to do--consulting, I-banking, lawyering, better jobs with higher pay and a great deal more respect. And that's exactly what I fear. There are many of us on this campus with the temperament and the skill to teach. Until now, we might have harbored the desire to try it, to join a low-paid profession for the greater rewards of sharing knowledge with children...
Montana author Rick Bass is a magical realist of eerie skill who takes readers deep into the natural world along paths that have no reasonable compass bearing and that don't lead easily back to the comfort of pavement. Drop your trail of breadcrumbs as you venture into The Lost Grizzlies, a long, moody essay, or The Sky, The Stars, The Wilderness, a strange, brilliant book of short stories...