Word: performance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that funds most scientific research, to develop a set of guidelines for recombinant DNA research. When Harvard proposed to build the $600,000 special research laboratory three years ago, then-Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci heard about the recombinant DNA safety debate and questioned whether scientists should be allowed to perform recombinant DNA experiments in Cambridge...
...have purposely attempted to make training courses for officers a priority in order to enhance their skills in those areas most needed to perform in an academic setting," Chafin says. Most pressing, he notes, reflecting on the state of the department when he arrived, was the need for supervisory training. Not, he explains, that the supervisors were operating below standard, but that they had received no formal training for supervisory positions...
...settled, however, were strikes by 400,000 schoolteachers and the Iran Air employees. The airline walkout stranded some 20,000 devout Muslims headed for Mecca on the annual hajj (pilgrimage). A plea by religious leaders failed to get the workers back on the job to enable the pilgrims "to perform their religious duties toward Allah." The Shah himself stepped in and ordered the Imperial Air Force to transport the pilgrims to Saudi Arabia. Parents were growing impatient with the school closings, even if their offspring were not. Many schoolchildren took to the streets to join demonstrators and carry placards...
...Florida weather: only the hardest of the hard core like to jump in northern climes when winter is coming on and the temperature at 12,000 ft. may hover at 0°F. This year some 100 competitors from around the world joined more than 500 Americans to perform in the sunshine at Zephyrhills...
...sport of competitive parachuting is based on forming intricate patterns of falling bodies in the sky. At Zephyrhills, teams of four, eight, ten, 16 and 20 jumpers go through from one to six formations in sequence during their 55 sec. of free fall from 12,500 ft. They perform a kind of aerial ballet, creating doughnuts and diamonds, wedges and stars. The jumpers carefully rehearse their maneuvers, choreographing the sequences on paper, then running through them over and over on the ground, in what are called "dirt dives...