And by proficient I mean that at any given moment, I am pretty plugged in to what friends in my virtual world are up to.
No subjects indicated higher proficiency in Spanish for any of these domains, although three indicated equal abilities for speaking (Spanish mean = 7.73, English mean = 8.87), and two subjects were equally proficient in reading (Spanish mean = 6.93, English mean = 8.73).
Cast your mind back to a time when proficient home baking meant an evenly iced coffee and walnut cake, or a tray of perfectly golden scones.
Even if you're the most technically proficient producer/singer/instrumentalist, it all means nothing if your work is uninspired.
By virtue of their rejection of bisphosphonates, women may force practitioners to become more proficient at recommending nonpharmacological means of reducing the burden of osteoporotic fractures in these high risk women.
Reasonably proficient is taken to mean that they possess the minimal skill levels generally required to succeed in the 21st century.
They're good for quickly filtering out folks who are clearly applying to everything — but when everyone in the industry has some crazy made-up senior ninja/rockstar/space cadet title, when everyone considers themselves a coder, and when "Proficient with C" can mean two entirely different things based on a person's ego, that's about all they're good for.
In the arts and sciences, scholarly associations could define and update what it means to be proficient in a field.
But at the other schools, it means that girls proficient in both sports can no longer play both at the varsity level.
If being back means hitting technically proficient shots with increasingly ordinary effort, if it means a relatively calm putting stroke, if it means sound course management and a placid existence because his marital and adultery scandal no longer comes up on or off the course, then Tiger is back.
