Word: perform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House committee voted to order Watt not to hold a sale of mining rights scheduled for last week. Under federal law, its vote should have been controlling. But the Supreme Court in June declared unconstitutional the procedure under which Congress delegates authority to the Executive Branch to perform certain acts while reserving the option to later overrule the Executive. The committee protested that it had ordered Watt not to cancel the sale but only to delay it. Watt said even that action was unconstitutional...
Insiders who have seen the new machine say the Macintosh is an innovative computer that should succeed. Nonetheless, it has several major flaws. The machine, for example, does not have enough storage capacity to perform complex tasks like the Lisa. In addition, it will not at first be able to run the same programs as either the Lisa or an IBM PC, which has become the industry standard. That will be a big drawback for corporate customers who want to move information between different machines...
...fundraising experience has come in handy at the Office of the Arts, where, during the past few years. Mayman has canvassed the country in search of money to create a permanent endowment for the office. Last year Mayman says she visited 20 different Harvard clubs, bringing different students to perform "I wanted to bring a number of alumni up to date so that students interested in the arts are not left to their own." Mayman says. She adds that she stressed to the alums that continuing interest in the arts is "a very natural part of an educated person...
...real adventures of our world are those of the mind: the struggle to put a man on the moon or to find a cure for cancer. The lone researcher is the real hero. Reckless risk takers perform a few extraordinary feats of jumping or climbing and then spend the rest of their lives talking about them in bars. The feats of scientists or anyone concerned with the human dilemma live on indefinitely...
American firms are still far ahead in sales of microprocessors, chips that can perform computations and manipulate information, rather than just store it. In this market, the showdown is between Intel and Motorola. Intel may pull away be cause of its new alliance with IBM, the world's largest computer manufacturer. Last December, IBM bought 12% of Intel for $250 million, and this summer it increased its share to 13.7%. When IBM designed its immensely popular personal computer, the company chose an Intel microprocessor to be the heart of the machine. Because many companies are coming out with personal...