Word: perform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sprinters do not ordinarily sign up for marathons, nor do lonely long-distance runners enter the crush of 100-yard dashes. But some authors perform an analogous feat by writing both short stories and novels. Instead of being complimented on their versatility, though, they frequently encounter a peculiar problem: facing themselves as competitors. Choices, so the assumption goes, must be made. Which Hemingway is the ultimate winner, the one who broke so many tapes in In Our Time or the one who strode with such manly endurance through The Sun Also Rises? Which O'Hara, which Welty, which Cheever...
...dining hall, which Jedrey and other parents point out is a mixed blessing. Jedrey notes, for example, that the regular conversation with older people has built up his son's vocabulary. Parents add, however, that around the age of two, some children go through a period in which they perform for the dining hall...
...have at least kept the ceiling constant." Clifford Adelman, an analyst for the National Commission on Excellence in Education, finds that "all our expectations are phrased in terms of minimums. By focusing on the lowest common denominator, we are killing the kids in the middle. Nothing drives them to perform better...
...Worker retraining: The education of unemployed workers to perform new tasks...
...running seminars in recent months to teach administrators how to cope with the new rules. Though the A.H.A. generally supports the regulations, it also believes that they will radically alter the nature of care. Predicts A.H.A. President Alex Mc-Mahon: "Hospitals may tend to specialize in the services they perform most efficiently." In areas where there are too many maternity beds, for example, some hospitals may drop their obstetrics units. Hospitals that lose money on such complicated procedures as open-heart surgery may refer cardiac patients elsewhere...