Word: perform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Safranek sets up most of the experiments the undergraduates perform, while Williams' provides more of a supportive role. All of the research deals with the tobacco horn worm. Williams most recent area of concentration. Safranek first teachers the students the mundane tasks of cleaning tubes, refilling supplies and of taking care of Williams caterpillar factory--which year round produces mass quantities of all the different stages of caterpillar development. After getting to know the students and their dependability. Safranek provides them with lab projects while teaching them the actual techniques needed to pursue their independent research Depending on the students...
...killer" with a Manichaean personality: intelligent, literate and talented, but also a pathological liar, frustrated dreamer and contemptuous failure. Andrew Hayes, 16, who was among the many witnesses who implied that the defendant was a homosexual, testified that he had been offered money by Williams to perform oral sex. Others, including Bookkeeper Denise Marlin, indicated that Williams was a bigot. Said she: "He used to call his own race niggers." In his summation, Assistant District Attorney Jack Mallard concluded: "Any person who could kill over and over for no apparent reason would have to have a split personality...
...known Gerald Ford for many years. I had briefed him regularly, first as Republican leader of the House, and for the past nine months as Vice President. I liked him immensely. I knew he was a good and decent man. I had no idea how he would perform as President, and almost certainly neither did he. But he seemed at ease, neither overawed nor falsely boastful. He urged me again to stay on and noted that we had always got along well. I pointed out that it was not his job to get along with...
Throughout the current campaign the Harvard men's basketball team has not been a stranger to the fast-paced excitement generated by a close game. But the team consistently has lacked the maturity to perform down the final stretch of a contest and squeak out a hard-fought victory...
...fact, were most of the acting not so fine, the play would be crippled by its overt bias toward faith over reason. Because Geraldine Page and Amanda Plummer perform so magnificently, Pielmeler's faulty script sails along smoothly...