They want to hear skilled musicians inspired by (to name a half-dozen) Louis Armstrong, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Artie Shaw, Art Tatum or Teddy Wilson improvising elegantly through a 32-bar form or a blues.
As we slowed to go over the old bridge, I thought about the previous evening's storytelling session with the deer camp regulars, thinking that it might have been my last opportunity to hear skilled hunters and even more skilled storytellers relive their glory days.
It's a welcome surprise to hear this skilled but fundamentally indolent rapper try to awaken himself from his stupor on "Weekend at Burnie's," which is both moodier and more vibrant than most of his recent work.
One division manager, for example, hearing that a skilled, experienced personnel director would soon be leaving the division, realized that he could not fill her shoes quickly.
What they heard was a skilled presentation by Ms. Weir, a former journalist from Northern California, that mixed fact, purported fact and advocacy to argue not just that the United States was to blame for arming Israeli aggression, but that the war in Iraq was largely the result of neocons with strong ties to Israel supporting Israeli interests.
Current overall leader of this discipline, France's Matthias Dandois, is a household name in his own country, and regularly appears on primetime TV, but how many people in Britain have heard of the equally skilled Lee Musselwhite from Torquay?
Grassley held a hearing earlier this year on high-skilled immigration reform.
We continue to hear reports about a skilled labor shortage in our modern workforce, and all of the evidence seems to point toward a growing U.S. skills gap.
He would relocate, but has not heard of any place where skilled labor is in demand.
If you ask a conservative Republican, you are likely to hear that Obama is a skilled politician who campaigned as a centrist but is governing as a big-government liberal.
