51.   The results were downplayed by politicians and school officials who said that children who lack English skills cannot be expected to do well on an English-only exam.

52.   The threat is that employers would dismiss thousands of workers on the grounds that they lack the skills to be worth more money.

53.   The Vikings lacked the skill to defend themselves.

54.   The two psychologists think that inept people are often self-assured because they lack self-monitoring skills, which are the same skills required for competence.

55.   These are the students who lack basic skills they must have to succeed.

56.   There she worked with people who lacked job skills and who were difficult to place because of past alcohol and drug-abuse problems.

57.   They complained that Iverson lacked the skills to take the company from its early entrepreneurial stage to a more mature phase.

58.   They liked his hitting ability, even though he lacked coverage skills.

59.   Those numbers are a grapefruit in the face of those who blast public schools as unable to teach children who lack basic skills.

60.   Though a majority of citizen-shareholders turned their shares over to investment funds, the investment fund managers also lack the skills the companies need.