Word: perform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that simulated a pinball machine on a video monitor. Now, with Pinball Construction Set, Budge has done himself one better. This program puts the pictures of components on the screen and lets players make their own pinball machines. Flippers, bumpers, launchers and kickers fall easily into place and then perform like the real thing. Players can paint the pinball pieces bright colors, set up complex scoring patterns, or adjust the time, gravity and elasticity of the playing area. An added advantage: a computerized pinball machine will not malfunction because of a tilt. For Apple and Atari computers from Electronic Arts...
Rather than close the fraternity or expel the students involved as many observers expected, the school reached a secret agreement with the fraternity. Alpha Tao Omega was allowed to remain open, and the members were forced to perform community service, including the reading and discussion of women's rights literature...
...diploma in hand, passed the senior civil service test. One government ministry indicated that a job was waiting. But Suzuki, 23, like many other career-minded Japanese women, decided that most Japanese employers would expect her to serve tea, even to male colleagues from the same class, and perform clerical duties that offered little chance of advancement. So she joined the Tokyo office of the Boston Consulting Group, an American company that specializes in international marketing and other services. Few Japanese corporations promote the cause of equal rights for women, according to Suzuki, and that made her angry. "We were...
...return for probation. The judge was willing, but it was impossible to find a doctor in California who would do the operation. Surgeons demurred then-as they probably would today-for fear their patients might change their minds after the operation and sue, and because it seemed unethical to perform a procedure whose only medical purpose was to mutilate. -By Michael S. Serrill. Reported by B.J. Phillips/Atlanta and Richard Zacks/Chicago...
...tight-control movement aims to avoid these problems by keeping sugar levels within normal bounds. The only way to do this is by constantly monitoring the level of glucose in the blood. At programs like D.S.C.P., diabetics learn to perform the procedure at home, using special strips of chemically treated paper. When a drop of blood is placed on the strip, the paper changes color. The shade indicates how much glucose is present in the blood, and can be interpreted by either matching it to a color chart or feeding the strip into a small electronic device...