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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...what? Maybe they were more competent. Isn't it possible that people who talk more do so because they simply have more to contribute? To test that, Anderson and Kilduff ran a second study with a new team of volunteers in which the skill being tested was a lot more quantifiable than forming a nonprofit green group. This time it was math. (See entrepreneurs breaking ground in global business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Competence: Is Your Boss Faking It? | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

...Harvard’s got the skill in net to go head-to-head with Schaus. Junior goalie Christina Kessler is coming off of one of her best weeks of the season, and was named ECAC Goaltender of the Week after shutting out BU and Brown...

Author: By Alexandra E. Zimbler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Looks to Keep Rolling in Beanpot Final | 2/10/2009 | See Source »

...We’re excited by the opportunity—[BC is] a good team,” Stone said. “They’ve got good goaltending, they’ve got a lot of skill in their team...

Author: By Alexandra E. Zimbler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Looks to Keep Rolling in Beanpot Final | 2/10/2009 | See Source »

...supposed to bring together people from different backgrounds sharing the same residence, classifying players as rank A, B, or C is a regression to the athletic culture that reigned in high school. And, because people don’t want to embarrass themselves, they commit to a lower skill-level team, creating more anxiety and self-consciousness than fun and spontaneity...

Author: By Tomo Lazovich and Marcel E. Moran | Title: A Sporting Proposition | 2/6/2009 | See Source »

...that may not have been an option. For one thing, congressional staffers may be the only people in America with the dubious skill of being able to move nearly a trillion dollars into the national economy in a hurry. And Hill staffers claim that Obama needed the leaders of the various committees to tell him what the bill required to garner enough votes to pass. Either way, the fact that the bill is the product of free-spending congressional committees is likely to hurt Obama. It is defining his first major effort to fix the economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Obama Regain Control of Congress's Stimulus Bill? | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

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