Word: performer
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...article. Deploring a growing American xenophobia and introversion in the face of a world that no longer seems interested in emulating the U.S. system, Brzezinski notes that the nation's chief role has long been "to stimulate change." Yet "an inward-oriented America would gradually cease to perform that role." That would be unfortunate, says Brzezinski, since "America still provides to most people in the world the most attractive social condition (even if not the model), and that remains America's special strength...
...problem was sloppy welding and shoddy inspection-and apparently attempts to cover them up-in a 144-mile stretch of the pipeline between the Yukon River and a point south of Fairbanks. Ketchbaw Industries, a Houston firm, had a subcontract to perform X-ray tests of the welding; those tests had been required to reduce chances of a serious oil spill. Last year a Ketchbaw employee charged that there had been falsification of some tests. The pipeline consortium investigated the charges, decided that they had substance, and brought a suit against Ketchbaw. Ketchbaw denies falsification and has filed a countersuit...
...could quarrel with Berry's contention that West Point has to prepare young men to perform honorably and reliably on the battlefield. The problem that he and the U.S. Army confront is how to revise the code, and the system of justice that goes with it, to foster a sense of honor in the cadets-a system that they can uphold with honor themselves
...OECD'S purposes in drafting the code was to head off a possible effort by the developing countries to ram through the United Nations their own tougher strictures on the multinationals. Nonetheless, the code does perform a useful service as the first major statement by the industrialized nations about how they expect their corporations to behave elsewhere. The code may also inspire some developing countries to enact up-to-date business legislation that would outlaw exploitative business practices-just as they have long been forbidden in the nations where the multinationals were born...
Jones enjoys a unique rapport with many Harvard athletes who have taken his course. This has enabled him to perform a vital role as a member of the Harvard Standing Committee on Athletic Sports...