The skills needed for success go beyond the basics of reading, writing, and math, however.

God, his skills were going to be utterly wasted in retirement.

Or they feel they lack the skills to go online.

"Simple mathematical skills are just going right out the window," he said.

Those teenagers left behind did not let their new skills go to waste.

Jackie White's skills as a teacher did not go unrecognized.

And with the skills went the discipline of the stomach.

Not that all the imperial skill of youth has gone.

It would be a shame to let that skill go to waste.

His celebrated skills as a Washington power broker went begging.