Word: performance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said, 'We have some politicians who would like to say a few words to you.' Everybody looked at us, and we shook our heads. 'You mean you're not politicians? Then praise the Lord!' And the whole church started laughing." The choir and its soloist, Lannie Spann McBride, perform the film's final funeral anthem...
...Chicago Cubs season. Yet he projects such solid authority that not even junk can embarrass him. "I actually think I've been lucky," says the star who can't say no. "Working constantly not only keeps me sharp, but relieves me of the responsibility of having to perform up to a certain level if I had been waiting for the 'right' role...
...candidates it selects, regardless of whether it is manifested on the cello, the stage or the diving platform. And the implication that athletics is somehow less intellectual an activity than music or art is somewhat misleading. The required academic mastery of Coach Restic's "multiflex offense" to perform well on the football field or the required knowledge of the physics of the hammer throw is no less intellectual than the talents of gifted singers or pianists...
Anyone who has hired new employees or tried to retrain veteran ones is painfully aware of the problem. As much as a quarter of the American labor force -- anywhere from 20 million to 27 million adults -- lacks the basic reading, writing and math skills necessary to perform in today's increasingly complex job market. One out of every 4 teenagers drops out of high school, and of those who graduate, 1 out of every 4 has the equivalent of an eighth-grade education. How will they write, or even read, complicated production memos for robotized assembly lines? How will they...
...Faculty Senate, the committee did not recommend the change. It concluded that the change "would unfortunately and perhaps dangerously 'moralize' the practice of grading; it would create a 'scarlet letter' within the grading system. This could have deleterious psychological effects on students already burdened by pressures to perform...