Word: perform
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...test scores and previous grades are quite useful in assembling a class that will perform well academically...
Muslims who are traveling get a special dispensation: they are required to pray only three times a day instead of the usual five. For seven days next month, however, one itinerant supplicant may find it difficult to perform the ritual of touching his forehead to the floor during prayers. As a "payload specialist" on the next voyage of the space shuttle Discovery, Saudi Prince % Sultan ibn Salman ibn Abdul Aziz al Saud, a nephew of King Fahd's, will help supervise the launch of Arabsat 1B, a communications satellite funded by 22 Arab countries. Says he: "My flight has great...
...about a joint bid for Hughes Aircraft, which was soon to be auctioned off. After brief consideration, they decided that it would be a mistake to break up Hughes. Says Dingman: "It would make no sense. Like a symphony, if you sold off the violin section, it would not perform as well." At that point, the talks shifted to a possible Allied-Signal merger. At meetings in La Jolla, Calif., and Morristown, N.J., the deal came together...
...performers seemed as thrilled as the audience. Said Mary Wells: "It's like your house was condemned and then all of a sudden remodeled and reopened as history." But everyone acknowledged that for the comeback to last, box- office-caliber talent would have to cooperate. Asked if he would perform at the theater again, Stevie Wonder said, "I don't know." LaBelle warned of the need for sacrifice: "If we let our egos stay behind and let our pocketbooks stay empty for a while and just go do things for feeling and spirit and causes, I think the Apollo will...
Other Presidents--indeed, other leaders of many nations and many stripes --have found their ability to perform that trick sorely tested with changing circumstances. Sometimes their comeuppance has been temporary, sometimes permanent. Winston Churchill, for example, was the man of the hour for Britain and the alliance during World War II because of a magnificent stubbornness and attachment to basic, simple principles. Those same qualities, when applied to the postwar world, no longer seemed so magnificent; and Churchill's constituents, for all their gratitude, turned...