Word: performance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dekle, who danced with a professional ballet troupe during high school, says she "can't wait to perform at Harvard...
Dekle, who went to an all-girls Catholic high school, adds that she hopes to major in Biochemistry and to perform in musicals while at Harvard. "You know you can't go wrong with a Harvard education," she says...
Both women and men often work at unpleasant, unending and ill-paid jobs. But only women struggle under the burden of the "double day," the cultural imperative to perform the household tasks as well as the economic need to work. They are willing to endure grinding labor for the sake of their children's futures; sadly, finding help to care for those children may be the single greatest problem that some immigrant women face. In the women's home countries, kinfolk often help to care for young children. Without the support of a household of female relatives...
...helmed by the Greek immigrant George Pan Cosmatos. Indeed, when America wants to cauterize its own psychology or psychopathy onscreen these days -- in Birdy or The Falcon and the Snowman, in The Killing Fields or Alamo Bay -- chances are it will call on a foreign director to perform the surgery...
Soviet health officials hope to build more eye-operation factories around the country. The approach not only lowers costs, says Fyodorov, but may actually improve the quality of operations by permitting each surgeon "to perform the part of the operation that he does best." Someday, Fyodorov predicts, appendectomies and even heart surgery will be assembly-line products...