Word: performance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About 100 members of the 175-man Red Army Chorus have been invited to sign the Soviet national anthem, and a Canadian group from Quebec City will perform "O Canada...
Glee Club officers said the television exposure makesthis gig particularly attractive. "It's a changeto perform in front of an international audience,"said Scott J. Swanay '88, president of the GleeClub
...Grossman had traveled down the coast thirty miles to the homeland of these immigrants, she might have understood why so many of them willingly cross the border for the opportunity to perform "slave labor." There, in Tijuana, she would have seen not workers picking oranges for a few dollars an hour, but people begging for food; not housekeepers living in the "slave" quarters of fancy homes, but wretched families living in cardboard shacks that wash away in the winter floods; not gardeners driving beat-up Chevy's, but beat-up human beings for whom the prospect of owning...
...there are ten such centers, offenders do prison time first, with the hope of work release as a carrot for good behavior. That method lets the state consider, through observation and psychological testing, which inmates are likely to succeed in the program. "We want to see how they'll perform," says Vaughn Overstreet of the department of corrections...
Inspired by the meticulous regimen of fast-food outlets like McDonald's, Ackerly's Mini Maid operation offers a menu of 22 basic daily cleaning chores that its four-member crews will perform in an average time of 55 minutes for a fee of $39.50 to $49.50. The duties of the blue-and-white-clad cleaning squads -- primarily young mothers and homemakers -- range from washing kitchen floors to scouring porcelain to bed making. Says Ackerly: "We arrive with a smile, we have knowledge, we deliver what is asked of us, and we call back new clients the next...