Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ford's 25%. The nation's auto dealers, always quick to complain when they are being forced to take unsalable cars, now lament that Detroit underestimated the market and is not building fast enough. To a man, they are convinced that the auto industry is about to perform the hat trick by following zooming 1962 sales, which should hit 6,900,000 cars, with an even hotter 1963. Some talk daringly of a sales surge that will equal 1955's record of 7,200,000 cars...
...note justifying the addition of the "other requirements" clause explained that some fields might want their Honors candidates to take special courses or perform advanced work in foreign languages. Though the English Department does require such advanced work, the Generals-rank-list provision which formally determines thesis eligibility in English has nothing whatever to do with languages or any other special course. And indeed, the Generals-rank-list provision contradicts rather openly one of the other explanatory notes, which emphasized that the condition that a student be doing work of honors quality either within or outside his department would...
...examination should be quite so imaginative. But both questions are also educational, because they force the student to think. They require him to translate his arguments and facts into a new context. It is doubtful that a student has learned all he can from a course if he cannot perform, or be led to perform, this sort of operation. A good examination question can suggest...
...Meistersinger von Nürnberg is a devilishly difficult opera to perform well. At the very least, Composer Richard Wagner wrote requirements for a heldentenor of exceptional stamina, and power enough to vault the massed forces of the Wagnerian orchestra, and a baritone of considerable theatrical skill to probe the complex character of Cobbler Hans Sachs, one of grand opera's most intriguing heroes. It can also benefit greatly from a well-drilled chorus and properly poetic settings. Last week an audience at the Metropolitan Opera House saw a Meistersinger that had all of these attributes and more...
...Corp. last week introduced what it considers the most economical "true" computer on the market-the "1440." Designed for small and medium-sized businesses, the 1440 operates with a series of inexpensive and interchangeable 14-in. disks that permit it to store hundreds of millions of facts and to perform a wide variety of sophisticated calculations, including those involved in inventory control and profit and loss analysis. Rental: about $2,600 a month, 40% below the smallest business computer previously manufactured...