Word: performer
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...squad must perform up to its potential if the season is to continue into the post season. That crucial determiner will occur at the end of this month in the form of the Eastern Qualifying Tournament. In order to continue on to the Eastern Championships, Harvard would have to win its first qualifying match. Only if that happens will Zimmerman be able to see any more play this year...
Polaroid already had begun testing the site's foundation when the council voted in June to require the company to perform surface-soil testing as well...
Batista's income is as modest as his clinic. He receives about $80 for performing each heart procedure; a doctor in a U.S. hospital would charge about $50,000 to perform the same operation. When he gets paid to talk at a conference, he donates the fee to charity. Foreign surgeons frequently try to wine and dine him at the finest restaurants, but he is happiest chewing corn on the cob at his favorite restaurant, Kentucky Fried Chicken. Batista's chief wish is to set cardiac surgery in a direction that will benefit both the developed and the developing world...
...especially difficult case that Shander oversaw at Englewood, 11-year-old Cristali Rodriguez came in with a rare pancreatic tumor, one of only 300 documented cases worldwide. Doctors in Philadelphia had declined to perform a Whipple procedure, a complex reconstruction of the digestive tract rarely performed on a child. Rodriguez's parents had refused a blood transfusion, and the girl's doctors felt that without it the operation was even more risky. Undeterred, Englewood surgeons did a 10-hour bloodless Whipple. There were no major complications, and a week later Cristali was eating pizza. Soon after her discharge...
...York City, Dylan displayed a renewed focus and grace. He has also been touring with stars of the new folkie set--punk-folk rocker Ani DiFranco and pop-folk star Jewel have opened his shows. One wonders: Does he stand in the wings and watch these young women perform? What does he feel as he sees his son Jakob, of the folk-rock band the Wallflowers, ascend the charts? Does he see where he has been or where...