And there is always the temptation, both for sub-contractors and for the firms themselves, to put factories in places where workers are fairly cheap and fairly skilled, such as India, China or Eastern Europe.Scotland (and to a lesser extent Wales and the north of England) is particularly vulnerable to the downturn.
I have observed, in the past decade, one playground after another — where, once, you could have shown up in the mid to late afternoon and found a group of fairly skilled players of different ages battling — become depopulated.
I have observed, in the past decade, one playground after another where, once, you could have shown up in the mid to late afternoon and found a group of fairly skilled players of different ages battling become depopulated.
Mr. Bargo's comparison wasn't reassuring, and I began to consider mom-and-pop woodworking shops, or maybe my uncle, who is fairly skilled with a table saw.
"The unemployment rate is so low that the demise of the dot-com companies becomes not a negative but a positive," he said, "because it frees up lots of young, fairly skilled individuals to go back to work in some of the longstanding brick-and-mortar, old-economy type companies, or even just routine technology companies".
Others said the shooter seemed fairly skilled.
Each group was taken by a fairly skilled or at least intent photographer; each follows a fixed subject through time.
Szpilka has since developed into a fairly skilled boxer, but he was still an underdog against Wilder.
I'm fairly skilled in the kitchen, so instead of buying gifts, I'm spending a few weekends crafting some beautiful and delicious cookies to give as gifts.
Bart shows that he is a fairly skilled player, as he adds the letters OBLIVIO to the US that Greta played to make a nine-letter word, OBLIVIOUS.
