Word: perform
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...ministry. But the English decision to move in the same direction will have broad influence within the Anglican Communion, which has something of a patchwork priesthood. Some bishops refuse to recognize women ordained by others, and some branches, including England for the moment, do not allow the women to perform priestly duties when they enter as visitors...
...century. Seems a man named John Connor is destined to lead the survivors of a nuclear war to victory over the evil machines-if his mother Sarah (Linda Hamilton), a lonely Los Angeles waitress here in 1984, lives long enough to give birth. So the Terminator is out to perform a "retroactive abortion"; and another time traveler, Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn), has followed him to save John's prospective mother and terminate the Terminator. Thus begins the deadly game of hide-and-seek, search-and-destroy...
...another question arises around the self selection of physicians to perform the controversial transplants. Several transplant specialists--many doctors at Harvard affiliated hospitals among them--have questioned whether doctors like Bailey, who are relatively unknown and unpublished, should be allowed to conduct such dangerous and widely-publicized operation on a child...
...under the recent state of martial law the supremacy of civilian leaders was never in doubt. In part this is a result of Western-style training: officers are educated in academics modeled on British institutions. In part it is caused by the military's heterogeneous nature; the armed forces perform the same role for India as they do for nations like Israel and the United States, providing a "melting pot" of different regions, religions, socioeconomic strata, even languages. No group or social class has been systematically excluded from military service in India. Such a cohesive, non-exclusive force in Indian...
...Defense, just after the February decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Lebanon. Essentially there had been a conflict between State and Defense-Defense had wanted to get out of Lebanon even before the October massacre, while State kept insisting our presence was necessary. While preparing to watch Lauren Bacall perform in Woman of the Year Sunday afternoon, Feb. 5, Weinberger had been summoned to an immediate meeting of the National Security Council at the White House. The Republican politicians had long wanted out of Lebanon ("The forget period," said one of the President's men, "is about six weeks...