Word: perform
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Jackson, however, is equally critical of some big universities with mammoth sports programs, where winning becomes all-important. "Coaches treat athletes like workers who must perform," he says. "It's crazy to have a 16-and 17-year-old with the pressure of a multi-million sports budget riding on his shoulders...
Yasser Arafat, the Houdini of Middle East politics, appeared ready to perform yet another remarkable feat. Last year the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization managed to escape from Beirut with more than 6,000 of his commandos after the Israelis had captured a third of Lebanon and surrounded all of his positions. This year Arafat and his loyalists had held on for three weeks in the vicinity of the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli as a vastly larger force of P.L.O. rebels, strongly backed by Syria, tried to drive the Arafat faction into the sea. The chairman...
...rise, on top, or tobogganing toward his destiny, Tony is always the same: a ruthless, fearless, utterly amoral slug. Insert him in the chamber of a .45 and he will blast off into your enemies. Cross him and cross yourself; he will perform your last rites just for fun. His swaggering sense of invulnerability first earns him a role as gorilla soldier in the army of Frank Lopez (Robert Loggia), a car and drug dealer. In the class structure of Sunbelt crime, Frank is the middle-class middle man, tangling fatally with both the coke aristocracy of Bolivia and Tony...
Social issues including incest, child abuse and the trauma of Vietnam veterans have been central themes on Nixon's shows. She said that with sensitive scripts her shows perform a "tasteful public service...
Having the centers in the schools where they also perform the role of the traditional school nurse--makes it easy for doctors and nurses to monitor the children's health as they grow up. "We have cared for (many children) since infancy," says Peggy Burns who has been a registered nurse at the Martin Luther King School facility since its founding 14 years ago. She says she gets very close to the children and their families and has even had the opportunity to treat the children of former patients...