"Children are incredibly adept at figuring out new technologies.
Above all, in this era of multiple divorces and remarriages, my meetings with parents remind me of how at too-early an age so many of my students became skilled diplomats, figuring out which set of parents to visit on vacations and how to negotiate breakfasts with stepbrothers and stepsisters they barely knew.
I'm not a bird expert, but I'm skilled in figuring out a story.
As skilled as the airlines are at yield management, they seem to have had trouble figuring out the seasons this year -- at least summer, which most of the travel industry, including the nonprofit Travel Industry Association of America and the AAA, considers to be June, July, August and possibly the few days until Labor Day.
One of her goals was figuring out how to open up that opportunity up to a broader range of city residents: "Can we get poor, unemployed people skilled up to meet those demands?" Ms. Lurie said it was clear to her organization that there were skill gaps among those at the lower socioeconomic levels.
"One might quibble with the figure, since the question of how much people would pay to avoid gun violence is hard to know," said Alfred Blumstein, a criminologist at Carnegie Mellon University, "but it is very helpful to have two skilled economists try to figure out how large the cost of gun violence really is".
Adams plays Dr. Louise Banks, a skilled linguist recruited to figure out how the hell to communicate with the aliens inside.
Coaches or teammates can help you figure out how skilled you are at a sport.
But it's also essential to figure out which portion comes from skilled workers (often called human capital).
"I realized we had to figure out a way to bring the skilled labor from Chicago to India.
