Word: perform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hunt says there has been some entrepreneurial activity in recent years. She points to the formation and expansion of the text processing agency and the plans for a new information processing agency, which will perform research for local businesses...
...victory for liberals was dampened by an amendment by Republican Senator John Danforth of Missouri. His provision allows universities and hospitals to continue receiving federal funds even if they refuse to perform or pay for abortions. The House has yet to finish consideration of the Restoration Act, but its approval of the Danforth amendment is doubtful. In any event, President Reagan sees the act as a vast expansion of federal power and may veto...
...these assessments, both positive and negative, are merely first-take snapshots of how the candidates would perform as President. That is the one defense of the long and laborious campaign: the voters -- and, yes, the press -- keep on learning. And now the time has come to start winnowing the field as the all-too-fast caucus and primary season begins in earnest next week...
Television now and then manages that sort of effect, metaphysical and banal at the same time. It can make demigods of the weightless, and bring the hallucination of their fighting into the bright box in the corner of the room. / Warriors come luminously out of the night air and perform pageants in the brain...
...settings range from an Indian hill station to funky downtown Detroit. The protagonists include a 12th century monk and a modern gay insurance investigator. No wonder crime fiction often seems to be not one genre but many. Its best, most venturesome writers, like the players in Hamlet, perform in veins lyrical, tragical, comical and historical -- and above all enjoyable...