Word: perform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question about the Big Green of '85 is defense. Aside from a solid group of linebackers, the unit is, well, green. If an inexperienced line and secondary can perform well, then Yukica's squad will be a formidable Saturday task for any team...
...right hand and the ability to speak clearly, the stroke left him "depressed and frustrated" and forced his doctors to speed up the transplant timetable. Rather than wait for Drummond to build up his strength for the second operation, as had originally been planned, they decided to perform the transplant as soon as a suitable donor organ became available. That happened at week's end, when doctors obtained and transplanted a heart from a 19-year-old Texas motorcycle accident victim...
Soviet workers, from pipefitters to Politburo members, receive state- subsidized vacations that differ as dramatically as the jobs they perform. Prominent members of the Communist Party and leading scientists luxuriate in secluded, heavily guarded mansions, supplied courtesy of the state. Even second-rank officials usually have a country house at their disposal. Tens of millions of their less exalted countrymen employ their wits and their blat (arm twisting and family connections) to gain entry to beachfront hotels, often located on the former estates of the prerevolutionary Russian aristocracy. Another much sought- after holiday choice for active trade-union members...
...question about the Big Green of '85 is defense. Aside from a solid group of linebackers, the unit is, well, green. If an inexperienced line and secondary can perform well, then Yukica's squad will be a formidable Saturday task for any team...
...rest of their time, the owners could perform other useful duties such as watering the grass at the Houston Astrodome, or maybe even turning on the lights at Chicago's Wrigley Field...