This provision, enacted in 1946, was based on the view that rail workers had especially hazardous jobs involving skills not easily transferred to other occupations.
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Proper oversight is a time-intensive, strenuous process involving skills in accounting, finance, political economy, institutional management, along with the passion that is sometimes missing.
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Sports betting, by contrast, involves skill, and it is possible, although very difficult, to consistently win money on it.
Some argue that modeling involves skill, while beauty is more superficial -- a bourgeois concern -- even though the Miss Universe contest involved speeches and other performances.
The production of these butters involves skill, patience and what Louise Hemstead, the chief operating officer at Organic Valley, calls "an awareness of magic ratios".
It argues that learning to hear God speak involves skill, that the skill changes the way people use and experience their minds, and that those who use this skill do so, for the most part, with sophistication.
And even though business success does involve skill, making it more like poker than roulette, there's just so much random noise that, for any single successful company, it's hard to tell whether skill or chance made the difference.
Mauboussin has a clever test of whether an activity involves skill: Ask if you can lose on purpose.
