The approach has severely hampered the ability of millions of youngsters to master this utterly basic skill.

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Fast approval of new drugs depends partly upon presenting good data from clinical trials a basic skill of a competent drugs firm.

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To many especially those with low-wage, basic-skill jobs that may sound like a good idea: putting more money into the hands of those who make the lowest wage is likely to increase their spending power (unless their jobs are lost, or hours reduced), and ease their lot.

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Typing, though, with all of its significant inefficiencies, is rapidly becoming a skill as basic as reading and arithmetic.

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