Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When they visit or call...they'll usually let you know what kind of interest level they have in you and what plans they have for you in the program," Halfnight says. "If you have a particular skill they're lacking, like scoring, they'll make that clear. They'll say they're really interested in your scoring touch, they need some goals and they want...
...athletic ability and physical skill all along, but it was the honing of those skills, and mostly it was the tuning of our mental skills that was the biggest factor this season," Sampson said...
...good for at least 35 percent provided he doesn't self-destruct in public, like Muskie or McGovern, or run a terrible campaign and lose momentum, like Dukakis. His splendid performances during Desert Storm press briefings and his recent book tour show that he has the charisma and skill to campaign across America. Thirty-five percent in a three-way race would mean either victory or the election being sent to the House of Representatives...
Perhaps the biggest problem with Buchanan's trade platform is the premise that trade is a big part of the problem. Most economists concur that trade with low-wage nations depresses low-skill American wages, but most don't think the effect is very large. Stanford economist Paul Krugman points out that in 1990 nonoil imports from low-wage nations amounted to 2.8% of America's GDP--a low number and, more to the point, barely higher than the 2.2% figure for 1960, back before low-skill American wages started dropping...
...World War II, returned to Oxford with no intention of kowtowing to the prevailing dogmas. He and his friend Philip Larkin, another scholarship boy who went on to literary renown, hung out in pubs, listened to American jazz and privately mocked the arty, Bloomsbury pretensions of their dons. Amis' skill at mimicry flowered in Larkin's appreciative presence: "Kingsley's masterpiece, which was so demanding I heard him do it only twice, involved three subalterns, a Glaswegian driver and a jeep breaking down and refusing to restart somewhere in Germany. Both times I became incapable with laughter...