An individual who initially enters entrepreneurship and then switches to laborer status will devote skill investment in period 2 into only one of the two options, ( {x}_1^2 ) or ( {x}_2^2 ).
Westford Hill Distillers in Ashford is one of a growing group of artisanal distillers in this country, most of which devote their skills to producing intensely flavored vodka, gin, rum or whiskey in small quantities.
I recently returned from playing hooky for a few days to attend the Peace Corps 50th-anniversary celebrations in Washington along with 5,000 other returned volunteers — just a fraction of the nearly quarter-million who have served our country since J.F.K. challenged college students on a freezing campaign night in Michigan to devote their skills to helping people overseas.
Today there are thousands and thousands of highly paid professionals in their forties and fifties quitting well-paid jobs to devote their skills to the good of the planet.
Doctors, meanwhile, will devote their skill to the complex tasks worthy of their highly trained abilities.
Other examples include the harpers of Celtic Ireland and Scotland, who devoted their skills to the accompaniment of learned bards.
Also benefiting from the troubles in the housing market are remodelers, who for the last several years have devoted their skills to buying cheap houses, fixing them up and flipping them, Mr. Duffy said.
He led me, through labyrinthine passages, on a tour of the others, seven in all, where squads of assistants polished and spray-painted, measured and calculated, made molds, removed imperfections, scanned dimensions into computers, and devoted other skills to the perfect replication of cheap plastic toys.
Much research has been devoted to skills mismatch in relation to macro-level demand factors.
