Word: skilling
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...artistic photographs is not detectable. There is as much power and mystery in the photographs which adorned the pages of a Neiman Marcus catalog as in those made as artworks. In fact, according to Smith, it's in commissioned pieces that one can assess a photographer's competence and skill. Only a truly skilled artist will be able to work with the limitations imposed by a client and still produce an image full of meaning...
...weekend is oriented towards fostering and sustaining effective student activism. The conference aims to integrate a range of activist skill trainings, issue seminars, educational sessions and group discussions with the personal experiences each participant brings to ACT '97. Many students will have experience with political organizing, and many others will bring an untested passion for change. Many will arrive simply to discover a way to contribute to a much needed campus and community political voice on these issues. ACT '97 aims to develop viable strategies for organizing from these perspectives...
...budget does well by American laborer-citizens. One of the president's proposals is for a tax deduction of up to $10,000 for post-secondary school education and training. This tax break couldn't be more beneficial to average Americans who are competing in an increasingly global and skilled labor market. In the new economic order of the information age, it is human capital which is the primary value of the citizen, for it is that knowledge and skill base which is salable to employers. For Americans to be able to compete in the new economy, they will need...
Apart from the intellectual equipment her mentors provided, Albright also learned to keep her wits about her as she acquired the essential diplomatic skill of making people who were uncomfortable with each other become comfortable with her. This was never clearer than when Muskie was Secretary of State and Brzezinski tapped Albright to work with him at the National Security Council. It was a low-level staff job, but "she was always at the center of things," recalls Richard Moe, then Vice President Mondale's chief of staff. She was the rare staff member who could work with both...
Details like these are half the fun of What Falls Away. Farrow knows how to orchestrate a scene, a sophisticated writing skill. She also makes each of the children's personalities distinct and, of course, sympathetic, something that professional novelists can have trouble with...