Word: skills
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...YOUR SKILLS. Charities need a full complement of skill sets--operations managers, fund raisers, marketers, writers, board members, printers and financial and legal advisers...
...arbiters of Asian art didn't always reward such experimentalism. In the great art academies of India, China and Vietnam, technical skill and an ability to reference the region's rich cultural heritage outweighed social commentary or renegade brush strokes. For centuries, Chinese students spent their school years laboriously copying the ink landscapes of ancient masters. The same held true in India, where artistic merit often was equated either with an ability to reproduce themes from religious epics or mimic the miniaturist details of the Mughals. In Vietnam, the 20th century's most promising painters attended the École...
...Hatch would spend a year wearing crimson, honing his skill with the team...
...crew did a particularly great job, the wind was shifting between not a lot to moments of very heavy wind,” Watson said. “A lot of performance is dependent on the crew’s skill...
...Steve Miles, a medical ethicist and the author of Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity and the War on Terror, says it may not be necessary to teach every medical student the specifics of torture. Rather, there's a more general skill all doctors need: push back--the ability to say no, whether it's to a commander who wants a prisoner tortured or an HMO that wants the potential benefits of an expensive treatment concealed. "Every doctor is going to wind up in a dual-loyalty situation," Miles says. The answer is to remember that a doctor's first objective...