• When they joined the revolution, they were already proficient in the use of small- and medium-sized weapons.

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  • Early in their search, the Jets appeared to target candidates who specialized in talent evaluation but lately had focused on executives proficient in negotiating the NFL's salary cap.

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  • That doesn't mean it's easy, of course: Even swimmers who are proficient enough in all the strokes to compete in the medley often shine at none of them alone.

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  • Both Ms. Richardson and Mr. Blake play significant roles in their present capacities at The White House and are proficient both in engaging Americans as well as individuals in the international community.

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  • Candidates must be proficient in reading and writing the language of instruction in the proposed country of study.

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  • The forwards are backchecking and the defensemen have become more proficient at winning the little battles in front of the net.

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  • You can see how hard it must be for the government customer to sort out proficient players from also-rans in the military electronics space by perusing the annual reports of companies.

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  • On the other hand, employees are least proficient at multiplying the opportunities inherent in the initial task they were asked to complete.

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  • However, by the time they reach middle school, only 32% are at or above a proficient level in math, according to the 2007 Nation's Report Card by National Assessment of Educational Progress, and they fall behind internationally.

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  • She says there's no way that all school kids can become proficient in Math and Science by the year 2014, as the law requires.

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  • In addition to a shrinking revenue stream from the state, another big challenge Ms. Black faces is that she'll take over just months after the state changed proficiency scores for public-school students, a move that resulted in tens of thousands more students being deemed not proficient in math and English than the year before.

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  • But to be fully proficient at making an omelet from the leftovers in your fridge, you need to grasp the finer points of seasoning, timing and creative thinking.

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  • And they pay for Google's Dublin office, where 900 people, proficient in 35 languages, proofread Google ads headed for Europe and the Mideast.

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  • Without skipping a beat, the elites denounced him as unfit to serve on the grounds that a man who was not proficient in national security and foreign policy matters could never become president.

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  • Rep. WESTMORELAND: The multilingual question is this, Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act says if you are physically impaired, if you are blind, or if you are not proficient in English, that you can bring an assistant with you to the poll.

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  • The group, labelled in the report as APT1, was staffed by hundreds of proficient English speakers.

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  • When they raised the bar, Tennessee went from 91 percent of children proficient in math to 34 percent.

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  • Dr. GROVER WHITEHURST (Acting Commissioner, National Center for Education Statistics): In mathematics, we see an increase in the percentage of fourth-graders performing at or above proficient for all five of the nation's major racial ethnic groups.

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  • It takes students with the lowest skill levels five years to seven years to become proficient in English, research by Cook and Linquanti has shown.

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  • The House bill calls upon schools to certify their students are proficient in English after they have logged at least three years in U.S. classrooms.

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  • "You would have to be very technically proficient to get these news services up and running and Ian Frost was certainly very versed in the IT world, " said Det Supt Gibson.

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  • Documents obtained through an open-records request showed that in the 2007-08 school year, at least some of those teachers were rated less than proficient and put on improvement plans.

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  • That still leaves a significant gap in total tax collections, though, so the real question is why American politicians are not as proficient as their European cousins at confiscating money from the private sector?

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  • Still, in most of the 21 urban districts tested this year, 75% of their students did not score "proficient" in math.

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  • Marin, a former math professor and proficient early-seed investor with a vast network of industry connections, is a master in picking future stock winners in the junior exploration as well the large- to mid-cap energy sectors.

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  • The acute nature of this problem in Indian Country warrants a targeted initiative like LMIC to support culturally proficient strategies for ensuring access to healthy food and prenatal services, implementing nutrition and physical education programs, and engaging Native youth, parents, and communities in active, healthy lifestyle choices.

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