Not only do students need technical, hard-skills, but the soft skills associated with a college education are important, too.
They propose cutting the COLA through the so-called chained CPI, a technical, hard-to-understand change, rather than say straight-out that they want to pull $127 billion dollars out of the pockets of their constituents over the next 10 years.
One night, I hit Bill Fitch with a technical so hard, I broke my finger.
The desire to write comes easily; writing itself is technical and hard.
Unlike France's 2008 presidency of the European Union, when his globe-trotting and war-mediating boosted his popularity, the G20 issues are technical and hard to explain to voters.
It is a technical clause, hard to explain to a wider audience, but these entitlements meant that when a severely disabled child reached adulthood, they would be treated as though they had contributed national insurance and would therefore be entitled to support to live independently in their own right.
In other words, the technical and hard part now begins.
Ironically, the growth in demand for technical expertise (hard skills) within tech-intensive industries seems to have increased the demands for complementary liberal arts proficiency (Pichler and Beenen 2014).
Instead Google deliberately chose the technical path (hard bounces) that would be most convenient for them in the short term, while causing me the maximum embarrassment, trouble, anger, frustration, and distress.
A common finding of both bodies of research was that highly-skilled workers in technical areas (hard skills) are better positioned if they possess unique non-technical skills such as problem-solving, emotional regulation, politicking, moral sensibilities, and communication (Neubert et al. 2015).
