Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conduct the trial. Blythin, wrote Weinman, should have ordered a change of venue; instead, he handed over most of the courtroom to the press. "If ever there was a trial by newspapers," he said, "this was a perfect example. Public officials, the courts and the jury are unable to perform their proper functions when the news media run rampant, with no regard for their proper role. Freedom of the press cannot be permitted to overshadow the rights of an individual to a fair trial...
...protects against all thrown objects, grenade and mortar fragments, and bullets moving slower than 1,000 ft. per sec. (which includes a wide variety of small-arms fire from anything but point-blank distance). Men who wear it, says Colonel Applegate, are much more willing to "close": they will perform countermob duties more aggressively...
...billion budget. Gordon, by nature a more tightfisted director than his predecessor, David Bell, had no trouble executing the slashes Johnson wanted and has been steadily cutting back ever since. Working for a President obviously fascinated by the political potential of budgeteering, he is being asked to perform tasks not ordinarily given a Budget Director...
SPAIN'S pavilion is a gentle interlacing of courtyards and corridors filled with endless surprises of light and shadow. Its attractions include priceless paintings of old and modern masters, an impressive showing of its young avant-garde artists, folk dancers who perform in a garden studded with red geraniums and, in the Market Plaza, hot churros and cold horchata. It alone is easily worth a day at the fair...
Using techniques followed by aero space engineers to simulate the perform ance of the Gemini space capsule, technicians at St. Louis' McDonnell Automation Center fed an IBM 7094 computer a diet of data that included the col lege's projected curriculum, the expected line-up of courses for the students, the size of classrooms, labs, lecture halls and shops, the size of the faculty, and time patterns for classes. In less than 30 minutes, the computer produced a schedule that would keep the instructional areas in use for 80% of the college's 45-hour week...