Word: performable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been running without last year's top runner, Jon Anderson, but today Anderson is expected to run. He has been suffering from a knee injury, and it is not known how well he can perform...
...latest-and perhaps the greatest-Lucia, it was certainly the well-earned triumph of a long and tortuous career. And opera lovers are now speculating with awe just what wonders Sills may perform in future Lucias -singing without a cold...
...more man-hours of labor than the production of goods. Thanks to improving technology, productivity is still gaining in manufacturing; it has climbed at a 3½% annual rate so far in 1969. Outside of manufacturing, where the best way to raise efficiency is to induce people to perform better, productivity has fallen at a 5% rate so far this year...
...long as draft boards can act capriciously, draft lawyers perform a valid legal service. Unfortunately, an obvious problem is that men who can afford skilled draft lawyers have a clear advantage over the sons of poor families who cannot pay high legal fees. Though some lawyers are helping to train "draft counselors," who give free help, the poor still get less than professional advice-more sad proof that the present draft laws not only make draft lawyers necessary but also breed contempt for law in general...
...passes for 135 yards and gained 68 yards on nine carries. He accounted for 203 of his season's 270 yards of total offense in a 23-2 win. But Procace usually plays as a defensive back, and there is some question whether he can continue to perform so well...