Word: perform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TIME Board of Economists, which holds quarterly meetings with the Economy & Business section. Established in 1969, the board consists of top economic experts whose freewheeling, on-the-record discussions provide, as Taber puts it, "a high-powered seminar by the country's leading business and academic economists, who perform a vital service by tipping us off to what the economic community is thinking about and pointing out future trends." (Current members: Otto Eckstein of Harvard University, Martin Feldstein of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Alan Greenspan of Townsend-Greenspan & Co., Walter Heller of the University of Minnesota, James...
...develop. His decision to abandon baseball for basketball costs the Jays not just the amateur draft selection they used to sign him, not just the time and money they have invested in him in salary, in coaching, in travel and in meals, but also the future services he would perform for them on the major league level. Ainge is not a prospect, he is a major league, considered by many in the know to be the team's best young player. If Ainge comes to Boston, the Celts should pay the Blue Jays substantial compensation...
...stiffer last year after the release of a preliminary report by Robert E. Klitgaard '68, associate professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School and special assistant to President Bok. The so-called "Klitgaard report" stated that Blacks and other minorities who do well on aptitude tests do not perform as well academically as their scores would seem to predict. It also envisions the possibility that Blacks might be more comfortable at a "lesser" university where their intellectual abilities would more closely match those of other students...
...Irving bear is a pathetic creature whose strength and dignity are ridiculed by its overriding need to perform. Explains the author: "They have become good at learning tricks to amuse people, but they have been reduced to a shadow show, like so many people who have been taught the most arduous skills that most of us find silly-like writing, reading and even wrestling...
...Utah State University. But other attempts involving such kindred creatures as lions and tigers have inexplicably failed. In any case, last week's success raises hopes that similar transfer techniques can be used to ensure the survival of other endangered species as well. The Bronx Zoo hopes to perform the same feat with a rare Arabian oryx...