Word: performer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...troll for prospects by visiting churches, country clubs or senior-citizen centers, says Tallahassee, Fla., comptroller Robert Milligan. (Not only in Florida, either. The Olive Branch Center in Sun City has had to institute tight screening provisions to keep con artists out of its weekly meetings.) The scammers often perform a legitimate service, such as income-tax preparation, to win the confidence of an elderly customer before pitching a fraudulent investment...
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan: The space-age version of knights in shining armor blasted off to the rescue of Mir today. Commander Anatoly Solovyov and flight engineer Pavel Vinogradov are racing to the troubled space station to perform vital repairs ? and they were never more needed. True to form, Mir's oxygen generators broke down this morning. TIME's Dick Thompson says this latest mishap is no cause for alarm: "To the Russians, this is just life as normal," he says. The two cosmonauts are expected to dock Thursday...
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan: The space-age version of knights in shining armor blasted off to the rescue of Mir today. Commander Anatoly Solovyov and flight engineer Pavel Vinogradov are racing to the troubled space station to perform vital repairs ? and they were never more needed. True to form, Mir's oxygen generators broke down this morning. TIME's Dick Thompson says this latest mishap is no cause for alarm: "To the Russians, this is just life as normal," he says. The two cosmonauts are expected to dock Thursday...
...discourage physical abuse, which was once tolerated though never sanctioned, drill sergeants are forbidden to so much as touch recalcitrant recruits in an effort to get them to perform. "Stress created by physical or verbal abuse is non-productive and prohibited," says the Army's training manual. "Drill sergeants used to be able to discipline soldiers on the spot when they misbehaved," McQueen says. "But now you can't even touch them to check their ammunition...
...near the end of their training stint, it requires recruits to simulate a variety of battlefield actions amid 40 miles of hiking. They traverse a 20-ft.-wide creek with a pair of 10-ft. boards, and they carry a "wounded" Marine for a mile over rugged terrain. They perform with scant sleep or food, through day and night, and have to ignore scrapes and sprains. "I had to keep going and not let my team down," says Private Scott Feather. The Marines say the beefed-up regimen is working, based on early anecdotal evidence of fewer disciplinary problems...