Word: perform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administrative Practice and Procedure. Fitzgerald, fired in 1970 after he disclosed huge cost overruns on the Lockheed C-5A military transport, was restored to his original Pentagon job in 1982 under court order. He complained to the Senate panel that he has been denied access to data needed to perform his duties, a charge that the Air Force denied...
...described its three greatest advantages as its sensitivity to AFP, its specificity, and the fact that it is very simple and inexpensive to perform...
...Adam Ulam, director of Harvard's Russian Research Center, suspects that "Gromyko is making up for the time he was an errand boy for Khrushchev and Brezhnev." Says Richard F. Staar, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution: "Gromyko has always been a hardliner. He's delighted now to perform that function as the official spokesman for the party...
Indeed, health care has been a major source of new jobs. The 63-year-old Cleveland Clinic has become one of that city's largest private employers. Surgeons at the hospital perform some 4,000 coronary bypasses a year, and a $500 million building program is under way to expand the 1,000-bed facility. The hospital's payroll has almost tripled during the past ten years, to 7,400 professional and hourly workers, including 2,000 residents of the largely black Hough district that surrounds the clinic...
Part of the impetus for the proposal was a study conducted by the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation, which found that achievement scores best predicted the way students would perform at Harvard. No word in yet on when the proposed change might be implemented...