Crying on command is a skill that's the subject of countless online guides.
On his website he points out that, on Earth, developers build everything from shopping centres to office buildings and to do so have to command a range of skills that include design, construction, finance and logistics.
The contractor boom enabled Snowden, a high-school dropout with computer skills, to command a $200,000 job and a top-secret security clearance.
And perhaps out of gratitude, or maybe a sense of obligation, he said, he does not want to leave his maintenance job there even if his video-production skills may command a higher salary elsewhere.
The skills that these jobs require are uniquely human, but they are low-level skills and cannot command a good salary.
This question is relevant because a proper command of basic skills is a necessary condition for an active and independent life, for updating and extending advanced skills and competences and for remaining competitive in the labour market, but also for being able to access administrative, financial and health services and to profit from the broad range of advantages offered by the new technologies.
And wages are stagnating in the middle of the labor market — workers who consider themselves too educated for entry-level jobs in a garment factory, but lacking the skills or experience to command a premium salary elsewhere.
One possible explanation is that few vocational senior high school graduates would choose to apply to college even with great performance, and most graduates with average performance already have the command of skills needed for a job.
(Johnson) * NAGASAWA ROSETSU This rare survey of this eccentric painter of 18th-century Kyoto consists of 14 works that reveal a breathtaking command of different skills and styles in portraiture, landscape, nature painting and calligraphic minimalism, and an almost chameleonlike instinct for using them.
You can always pick someone who is completely in command of their skill by how effortless they make it look.
That the thanks of Congress and the American people are due and are hereby tendered to Lieutenant J. L. Worden, of the United States Navy, and to the officers and men of the ironclad gunboat Monitor, under his command, for the skill and gallantry exhibited by them in the remarkable battle between the Monitor and the rebel ironclad steamer Merrimack.
