Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just all had a really tough weekend," junior Megan Murray said. "On Saturday nobody in the entire field really played up to their potential except for maybe a couple of players. The scores really didn't reflect our team's level of skill or our motivation...
...goes well we will win the Ivies," Miller says. "We have the skill and the desire to do so. We have a big game against UConn coming up and if we play well it should help us get into the NCAA's. If we do go to the playoffs I am sure we will do really well...
...market for software that enables networkers to "browse" the World Wide Web--the fast-growing multimedia portion of the Internet. Having promised it would make the Net safe for business--including home banking and online creditcard shopping--Netscape has become a fat target for anybody with the time or skill to prove that it hasn't achieved that goal. Just last month the company had to rush out a new version of the Netscape browser after two groups of hackers cracked its security code...
...mythology, both ancient (Helen of Troy, Troilus and Cressida) and contemporary (Ava Gardner), often weighing in with satirical observations about sexual politics. In "Miss July Grows Older," another version of the modern myth, an aging pin-up girl comes to represent sexual charlatanry of all kinds ("Men were a skill," "Don't get me wrong: with the lights out/I'd still take on anyone"). The narrative voice is reminiscent of the prickly teenage heroine...
...absorbed in reverie in front of a red curtain, his gaze slightly raised like a Guido Reni saint as he toys with a gold chain. The other end of the chain is attached to a tame flying squirrel nibbling a nut. Everything in the painting is a show of skill in illusion: the squirrel's pelt, the reflections and the thread of white highlight on the mahogany tabletop, the glass of water (to show how well he could do transparency), the boy's fresh, young skin...