Word: performance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Justice Stevens, 65, a sometime private pilot, firmly rejected the contention that the aging process made all flight engineers over 60 a hazard. "Many older American workers perform at levels equal or superior to their younger colleagues," he wrote in an unsubtle rejoinder from a member of the second oldest Supreme Court in history. Said Criswell, who at 66 is still a Western flight engineer: "By ruling unanimously, the court made very clear what it thinks of age discrimination. People constantly tell me, 'We like to see some gray hair in the cockpit...
Does Harvard want you to wait until morning to perform altruistic deeds so that your friends at Yale can see them. You obviously won't be able to tell them of the good things you did in the dark, because they won't believe it's the truth unless there's light around...
...case. Another assumption was that blacks and whites would learn positive things from each other and, as a result, take each other more seriously. The fact is, under integration, too many whites still find no value in black culture except music, the ability to dance and perform athletically...
...money, I'd bet that Black students at Harvard (and other colleges, too) who have chosen cosmopolitan identities rather than ethnocentric ones will in the future perform their Black leadership requirements better than Black students who have opted for ethnocentrism. If the good Lord's willing. I'll meet Timothy Wilkins, Anthony Ball, and Audrey Mischell [three Black student leaders] down the road in 20 years to pick up my winnings...
...couldn't perform--I just wasn't playing up to what I should have been," he says now, still sounding frustrated. The rooming group had been split up, with Doyle and Mielach sharing a double one floor below the other roommates, and the team wasn't a close group. "Off the court was fine, but on the court, nobody was together." On April 1, toward the end of a season that seemed to have gone on forever, he quit the squad...