Word: perform
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...vials. The Panshi ring allegedly paid their collectors a lucrative $25 a vial, to which the suspects attached the forged signature of a physician who was supposedly requesting a test on the blood, along with the name of a legitimate Medicaid recipient. The Panshi labs would perform tests on the blood to generate legitimate-looking data, and the Government was billed as much as $2,000 a sample. Surplus vials of the blood were trafficked to other illicit clinics at a markup...
Scholars like Stuhlmacher make no excuses and seek no secularized explanation for the miracles of the New Testament. "The historian has to take into account that Jesus' opponents conceded that he did perform miracles," notes F.F. Bruce of Manchester University in England, a leading evangelical exegete. He adds that if Jesus was God, as he claimed to be, "miracles are what one would expect...
...also says she is excited--her mother, who has not seen her perform since she was 17, will attend the concert Friday night. "I'm out of my mind," she says...
...switch fairly easily to another firm when confronted with a setback, the Japanese tend to regard a job as a lifelong proposition and judge themselves entirely in the light of how well they do it. For some Japanese, especially those in their late 40s or older, failure to perform is equivalent not only to letting down the company but also to undermining their reason for living. "They are middle managers wedged between tremendous pressure from above and disrespect from below," says Kenshiro Ohara, a psychiatrist and an expert on suicide at Hamamatsu University. "Younger Japanese are much better at setting...
Conventional computers function by following a chainlike sequence of detailed instructions. Although very fast, their processors can perform only one task at a time. This lockstep approach works best in solving problems that can be broken down into simpler logical pieces. The processors in a neural- network computer, by contrast, form a grid, much like the nerve cells in the brain. Since these artificial neurons are interconnected, they can share information and perform tasks simultaneously. This two-dimensional approach works best at recognizing patterns...