Word: verbalizer
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...other part of the jobs problem is the lack of attractiveness of many segments businesses are generally attracted to providing high-wage, high-quality jobs in areas with the best infrastructure and to people with the best technical analytical and verbal skills. Many businesses regularly complain about not being able to find enough workers with the right basic skills. Too many Americans, they and many others claim, are undereducated and underskilled for the high-tech, high-wage, digital economy in which a growing percentage of market opportunities, both here and abroad, are available. Too many Americans are unattractive...
Human capital is the outcome of investment in education and job-increasing skills. The bulk of human capital is assumed not at the college level but at the grammar and high school level. It is also where the foundation is established for assimilating more developed and sophisticated higher verbal and mathematical skills later on in college. And, it is also the area which businesses claim are where the greatest educational deficiencies persist...
Burnham was asked to leave the club after exchanging verbal abuse with club members, primarily football players. The argument followed heavy drinking by all involved, in direct contradiction of state law, College regulations and D.U. rules. One of the most unfortunate but perhaps least surprising aspects of this story is that the D.U. was acting as a haven for excessive and underage drinking...
...long-lasting depression, clinical and research-based evidence implicates a combination of family causes and defensive factors: first, experiences during vulnerable childhood years of parental unavailability (often as a result of their own depression, alcoholism or self-involvement), emotional neglect or verbal abuse; and second, the young person's own "characterological" modes of psychological defense (based on withdrawal, self defeat and self-deprivation) that disrupt self-esteem and enjoyment of relationships...
...verbal character of the statement chosen by these students shows at least a lack of faith--if not an outright disavowal--of the power of reasonable argument to approach and define the truth of a matter. This reliance on symbolism rather than substance should be anathema to both the Left and the Right...