Word: performer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...priests, including Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann and Culture Minister Ernesto Cardenal Martinez (at whom the Pope shook his finger in reproach during his 1983 visit to Nicaragua), struck a compromise with their church superiors in 1981 by agreeing not to say Mass or perform religious functions while holding their government posts...
Although federal law already prohibits the use of U.S. funds for abortions in other countries, the new policy threatens to go further. It would cut off funds to private organizations that perform or actively promote abortion. The U.S., Buckley said, will continue to support the United Nations Fund for Population Activities and other agencies, but it will require that they provide concrete assurances that funds are not being used for abortion or "coercive family planning," a reference to forced sterilization. In addition, any government that practices or promotes abortion as part of its family-planning program will have to assure...
...accounts for 90% of all knee surgery in the U.S. is proof of its major application. Dr. James Nicholas, director of the Lenox Hill Institute of Sports Medicine in New York, calls the knee the body's most vulnerable joint, "the most complicated and the least suited to perform what it is asked to do." Ligaments joining the femur and tibia wrap around the knee to keep the bones together; the only cushion between these bones is two thin bands of cartilaginous tissue called menisci. Unlike the shoulder and hip joints, which are buried under layers of muscle...
Retton, by contrast, is a 4-ft. 9-in. study in power, able to leap tall buildings with a single bound and do a full-twisting layout double Tsukahara (a maneuver only a few men in the world can perform) while she is at it. On the vault, she earned a 10 with that trick, which calls for pouncing onto the vault, then pushing into the stratosphere with her arms and twisting 360° while doing a double somersault with her body perfectly straight...
...while trying to cut through red tape." He expects the ethical-review process to be speedier in Kentucky, but there will still be some red tape to get through. The Utah unit was the only one in the country with authorization from the Food and Drug Administration to perform artificial-heart surgery. Now the Humana institute must obtain the same approval...