Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year high, which put the lower sections of the city 'deep under swirling brown water. Suddenly, Parisian education or no, the prince changed his mind: he could be blamed for the disaster unless he followed the dragon's instructions. He called on Kong Le to perform mass atonement ceremonies...
Maryland makes equal exemptions for many other kinds of charitable organizations that perform similar services. If religious groups were forced to give up tax exemptions, "serious questions of unconstitutional discrimination might arise." Indeed, taxing churches might well violate the First Amendment's "free exercise" clause. By contrast, suggested the Maryland court, not taxing churches may strengthen religious freedom...
...into general practice. The G.P. has steadily lost both prestige and patients to medicine's fast-growing horde of specialists. In hospital after hospital he has lost the privilege of attending his patients, and in many hospitals he has even been denied his traditional right to perform routine surgery...
...family physician that breadth, the academy proposes that his residency training include some psychiatry as well as surgery, pediatrics, gynecology, obstetrics and geriatrics. Whether the F.P. practices alone or in a partnership or in a group must be his decision, but the academy insists that he be allowed to perform "applicable" surgery -meaning major operations in remote areas, but only minor procedures such as tonsillectomies and routine repairs where specialists are at hand...
...MAKER. Bunker-Ramo Corp. has delivered to the Army two computers that perform the most tedious and time-consuming steps in map making. By scanning pairs of serial photos, the computers can measure heights, prepare charts showing altitude contours, automatically correct for parallax displacements and other distortions. e DRESS FIT. IBM has introduced a com puter system that can, from one original design, cut clothes patterns in different sizes. A moving mechanical arm traces the outline of the master design, then adjusts it for all sizes...