Word: performer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...important service American Jews perform for Israel, apart from collecting money, is to try to influence American opinion and policy in ways favorable to Israel. So effective do they seem at this that sooner or later every U.S. visitor to Arab lands will be asked to admit that the pro-Israel bias of U.S. policy is surely the work of the mysteriously omnipotent and sinister American Jewish lobby...
Student-Faculty contact has reached minute proportions with House associates often coming to the Houses to perform their perfunctory duties only once or twice a year. "Probably the majority of Faculty is indifferent to the Houses," Riesman says. "Perhaps a quarter to a third of Faculty has more than nominal involvement...
...report, released two years ago, recommends including the arts in the academic fold, saying. "Only courses in the regular curriculum can demand of the student the time, the effort and the self-discipline required to make the experience educationally valuable to him." The chief argument for granting credit for performance is that this work is as intellectually and educationally important as any that students do Committed artists can continue to practice and perform only with great difficulty while carrying a full course load...
Grave Necessity. New York City's nonsectarian hospitals almost unanimously reported that they would continue to perform abortions for women up to 20 weeks pregnant, or later if there is grave medical necessity, subject to the safeguards established by the state. At Washington's Freedmen's Hospital, Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital and Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, the reaction was the same. In Chicago, leading OBG services conceded that they would take more care to establish the length of gestation-but otherwise, no change. In California, where a 20-week law is in effect, there...
...equate the inhumane killing of prenatal babies by elective abortions with the alleged "untold hardship for thousands of unhappily pregnant women, who now find that although late abortions are technically legal in most states, few doctors are willing to perform them...