Word: performs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cliffe netwomen played the University of Virginia, ranked third in the South, in 70-degree spring weather last Monday. While the squad lost, 6-3, it was a moral victory of sorts to perform so well in the first outdoors match of the year...
Something seems lost the translation, but henceforth, says the department, a brewmaster will perform his duties as a brewing consultant. A governess will be a child mentor. In an incomprehensibly backward step, a valet will be known as a gentleman's attendant. One will henceforth be seen into the world by a birth attendant, not a midwife. And an offal man's duties in slaughterhouses and meat-packing plants will become the awful work of an offal separator. What of the Labor Department's own Manpower Administration? Says a spokesperson: "They haven't figured that...
...that evening, as Condon prepared to leave for home, he learned that despite the intensive care, his heart-attack patient had died. The intern then had to call the patient's family, notify them of the death and ask permission to perform an autopsy...
Kass sketched a bizarre scenario that would have mothers trafficking in fetuses for research use. He believes women might one day be able to perform abortions on themselves, thus creating a shortage of fetuses, and some might "become pregnant purely and simply for research purposes...
...need to polish her technique, but she already has at her command no meager arsenal of short-story writing equipment. Above all, these stories display her sure handed ability to sketch character in a few lines of dialogue and her understanding of the delicate juggling act an individual must perform to balance the sharing of other people's lives with the need for one's own private existence...