Word: perform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gleason says that American school children today perform much worse on standardized math tests than do students from other countries, partly because of the attitude here that the ability to do math is an inherited trait--not something that can be acquired...
Gleason says that as the number of Americans who cannot perform higher math increases, the nation is put at risk--not only in terms of mathematical research, but also in terms of factory workers' ability to perform competently...
...Neumann: "Inside Rangoon General Hospital, patients lay screaming and dying in the corridors as ambulance drivers rushed through the wards with fresh casualties. Supplies were short, the doctors said, and the stock of some anesthetics was running out. One doctor feared he might soon have to perform surgery with only pain-killers. Drivers said they had picked up a very small percentage of the dead. They told of soldiers in many places taking the corpses for cremation...
...they please. Reform Rabbi Irwin Fishbein of Westfield, N.J., last year printed a national directory of 200 members of the Reform clergy who are willing to conduct intermarriages. Moment, a feisty Jewish monthly, caused a stir earlier this year when it estimated that half of Reform rabbis perform such ceremonies...
...only chance at happiness." A more common argument is presented by Rabbi Richard Schachet, whose Chatsworth, Calif., synagogue consists almost entirely of the intermarried. "Every Jew who is turned away is a potential loss," he says. While opponents see intermarriages as a threat to Jewish survival, rabbis who perform them reason that the couples will wed anyway and a friendly approach is more likely to result in Jewish children...