Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Detractors may scoff that the hybrid combines all the dangers and difficulties of both solids and liquids. Its champions are confident that it is better than either. "Within about one year," says Douglas Ordahl, director of hybrid development at United Technology Center of United Aircraft Corp., "a hybrid will perform in orbital flight and prove that it can do all the things we claim...
...statistical guess of how each student will perform academically at Harvard. It is accessible only to admissions officials and to advisors, both have been sternly admonished by the College not to divulge the secret numbers to any students...
Republicans in Congress, he believes, should perform the role of a loyal opposition with the Democrats on broad issues but at the same time criticizing their failures. Long an exponent of Congressional reform, he wants his party to fight for a code of ethics. "We haven't scratched the surface about Bobby Baker," he said...
Finalists will also be asked to perform stationary and running jumps and a cart wheel, according to Mrs. Barbara Pillinger, advisor of the A.A. and one of the judges...
Apparently any story, no matter how simple or stupid, can be made to hold an audience's attention. It isn't the import, it isn't the lines; it's seeing live people perform. For with the slenderest of ideas, a bit of showmanship, and the sense not to overdo, Schwartz kept more than 100 people in their seats for almost an hour and a half--and kept them from fidgeting...