Word: performance
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...1930s Alan Turing first described the computer--a machine that could perform logical functions based on whatever instructions were fed to it--and then proceeded to help build one in the early 1940s that cracked the German wartime codes. His concepts were refined by other computer pioneers: John von Neumann, John Atanasoff, J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly...
...system of compensation includes "clawback" provisions, which withhold portions of bonuses contingent on future performance. Managers could lose the withheld portions if future investments perform below benchmark...
Larch is more than just the head of the orphanage. He also performs illegal abortions. As Homer gets older, and it becomes more obvious that he will never be adopted, Larch begins to train him not only in obstetric techniques but also abortion methods. Homer, however, has other plans. He's not against abortions; he just doesn't want to perform them himself. Larch can't understand his reluctance, using a woman who died because of an underground abortion by an amateur as an example. "That's what doing nothing gets you," Larch cries. "It means that someone else...
...times this season, it seems as if Tinsley's play has dictated how the rest of the Huskies will perform...
...this.' I did opera when I came to college. I always went to operas every Sunday. I was an usher in high school and would put on my white and black and sit in the way, way back in the balcony and listen. Here, I got a chance to perform opera...