Word: perform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summon his partner by phone. Edwards would then jump into his car and charge down the old country roads to Oldham. Once there, the two would remove the egg and mate it with sperm without wasting a moment; by the time Lesley Brown became their patient, they could perform the procedure in two minutes flat. They believed that speed was the important factor in the conception of Louise Brown...
Watching Mary Lou Retton perform a perfect 10 was as exciting as seeing the Super Bowl...
...clear-eyed look of true believers. No wilted shirt collars in this group. With hair carefully styled and blow-dried, they look like local-news anchormen. Television is, in fact, their medium. Its cameras are permitted in the House (unlike the stodgier Senate), and the young Turks unabashedly perform for the C-SPAN telecasts of floor debates. A Democratic majority still runs the House, so the Republicans are freer to posture...
...manufacture. It handles information two to three times faster than the older design used in the PC and PC XT. The new chip enables the machine to run complicated programs that previously could work only on larger minicomputers. The Intel 80286 also makes it possible for the machine to perform several different tasks at once...
...hook them together so they can share information or use centralized equipment like printers or storage devices. The new IBM office network makes it possible for as many as 72 desktop computers to work together. The system, though, is relatively slow, so more time will be required to perform tasks when many people are using the network at once. IBM promises that a more advanced system will be out in two years...