Word: perform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...participants said on going debates about affirmative action and the ability of minorities to perform well on standardized tests had adversely affected their motivation and self-esteem...
None are oblivious to the questions being raised about affirmative action and whether they have the academic capability to perform in this environment. Ray Hammond '71 a committee member, said this week. "We make the basic assumption that those here [at Harvard] are fully qualified...
...dean of Harvard's School of Dental Medicine attended the traditional Commencement Week alumni outing, expecting to perform his usual ceremonial duties: to greet the 25-year and 50-year reunion classes...
...changes vastly increase the role of women, allowing them to perform most of the lay functions that can now be handled by men. But the new code is still discriminatory: women may not be ordained as priests, and are even barred from being permanent lay readers and servers at Mass. Complains President Donna Quinn of the liberal National Coalition of American Nuns: "They say be happy and content with what you're given, but American society and Catholic women have moved beyond that. It's the same as excluding people on the basis of color...
...Ohlmeyer (to independent production). He did woo many of his old MTM employees to develop relatively sophisticated new series, like the sitcom Cheers and the hospital drama St. Elsewhere. With these shows NBC has asserted its image as the "quality network," though the one new NBC show to perform reasonably well against tough competition - Knight Rider, in the suicide slot opposite Dallas - is just another burning-rubber melodrama, a CHIPS of Hazzard...