Word: performancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Judge Sirica fully realizes the implications of his decisions regarding the "Forgotten Cubans" [Sept. 24]. Their fates, not those of the high-ranking officials implicated in Watergate, will have the most far-reaching effects on the personal lives of Americans. Are we to be programmed and made to perform like Pavlovian dogs and then condemned for what we do at someone else's whim and fancy? If so, we can only choose to balk, question and refuse to obey whenever we perceive the slightest lack of confidence or doubt in the wisdom of those rightfully ordained...
...most of his research at the University of Munich, Karl von Frisch established after decades of observation that bees communicate with each other through a complicated, highly articulate language of dance. He found, for instance, that a bee returning from a source of honey near the hive will perform a "round" dance, but if the source is more than about 160 ft. away, he will "waggle" instead. When the scout bee steps forward during the waggling dance, it points the way to the source. Having written the classic book on the subject, The Dancing Bees, Von Frisch went...
...hired the lone woman on its force in response to the growing female population on campus, MIT Police Chief Driscoll said yesterday. He also said that the patrolwoman they hired in July will perform the same function as the other officers on the force...
Ford, who has served as a congressman from Michigan for 25 years, promised that if he is confirmed he will "do my utmost to the best of my ability to serve my country well and to perform these duties that will be my assignment... with as much accomplishment as possible...
...that I say this, so why do I say it? Because I have lived during the politicization of a university, which can be carried to such an extreme that a student forgets his first responsibility. But a contemporary society requires a high technical capability from the revolutionaries--both to perform and to teach. In this way, the university political leader will have more moral authority if he is also a good university student...