Word: perform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Although official Salvadoran doctors refused to perform autopsies at the time, two of the nuns' bodies were later exhumed in the U.S. and bullets were removed from them. Ballistics tests revealed the kind of high-powered rifle the bullets came from are a type regularly used by the security forces...
...White House staff should be reduced. Four hundred are simply too many people to perform what should be the staff's basic functions: presenting the President with impartially organized information and seeing that his wishes are clearly communicated. Instead, the swollen staff tends both to insulate the President from the outside world and to attempt to make policy on his behalf. In addition, the White House staff has acquired unnecessary departments that exist primarily for the prestige of special interests. Examples: Hispanic Affairs, the Aging...
Some of the Reaganauts, however, came into office wanting to do things differently. Instead of forecasts that use past behavior as the main standard, they based the economic outlook on how business would perform if everything worked out according to their theories. They put those assumptions into their computers, and the results were indeed impressive. Growth next year was to be 7%, and inflation would decline to 6.5% before falling to under 5% in 1985. By contrast, the Carter Administration had predicted 3.5% growth and 9.6% inflation for next year...
...individual letters. But more frustrating than the probability that letters might have no effect on the deliberations of the president was the individual students' lack of the requisite knowledge and familiarity with outside scholars to make informed suggestions. Students knew their professors, but few could predict how they would perform as dean. Few students responded to Bok's solicitation of letters...
...candidate who is afraid of damaging his career or embarassing himself by meeting with students, would not perform well as dean. Students are concerned with adding women and minorities on the list of possible candidates, and there is no guarantee that these candidates would be given serious consideration without the openness that accompanies student participation in the process...