Given Thiel's intellectual horsepower, it would be a lot more interesting if he contributed his skills to really understanding and extending the strategy".
In a recent interview, Senator Franken said he and Mr. Davis had complemented each other, with Mr. Davis bringing his improvisational experience to the act and Mr. Franken contributing his skill at structuring a routine.
Meanwhile, Ida had in 1895 married a Chicago lawyer named Ferdinand Barnett, a feminist who contributed his legal skills to the cause, suing to enforce Illinois's anti-lynching laws.
Upon being graduated from Cooper in 1939, he held a number of design jobs, until joining the United States Army where he contributed his considerable design skills during World War II.
Eminem has contributed his voice-acting skills to various projects, including the videogame 50 Cent: Bulletproof, where he voices an aging corrupt police officer who speaks in Ebonics; guest spots on the Comedy Central television show Crank Yankers; and a Web cartoon called The Slim Shady Show, which has since been taken offline and is sold on DVD.
The website failed but his original investor suggested he merge it with a start-up called Reddit, which he did in 2005, contributing his considerable programming skills to streamlining the site.
And when Mr. Sluga bought the commune's harvester, he also recruited its 72-year-old driver, Ivan Nimchin, who remains an avowed Leninist, but who now contributes his legendary harvesting skills to Mr. Sluga's holdings.
Skills inherent in a person are 'non-excludable' in the way that any employer may hire the owner of such skills regardless of whether his or her company has financially contributed to skill development or not.
His abilities as a lawyer are depicted as contributing to his oratorical skill to win arguments.
The school's emphasis on oratory skills may have contributed to his ability to "stage" the figures in scenes depicted in his history paintings, drawings, and etchings.
