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.
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.
The coal and oil industries are filled with people who devote their talent and skills to telling lies and covering up truths, even when they know that the results of their actions will be the death of others.
Generalists (nurses, health educators) typically move from disparate tasks throughout their workday, such as prenatal education to immunizations, while specialists (HIV/STD workers, epidemiologists) can often devote their knowledge and skills to a single public health area.
A Core includes a group of experts who share similar research interests and devote their time to serve the community with professional skills.
Rural students who devote their entire time to academic studying do not have time to learn these skills.
For others, it's an expensive skill-based game to which they may not be able to devote their gaming soul.
