Word: performs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glimmer of hope exists for the Brown squad, as most of its wounded will be on hand, if not playing, in the game tonight. Exactly how smoothly the unit will perform together, however, is another story...
...distrusted for his blind faith in computerization as a key to the industry's survival, for his nostalgic standards of employee dress (dark suits, narrow ties and supershort hair), and for the heretical notion that brokers be compensated on the basis of how well their clients' stocks perform rather than on how many shares they turn over. "He alienated a lot of the jerks in the industry with these techniques, and they are all talking him down now," said a leading computer-stock analyst. Perot will now probably concentrate on running his Dallas-based Electronic Data Systems...
...immediately had to face the question of guilt. I might have said that I was a victim--that Vietnam happened to me rather than the opposite--but them the question became. "Did you never perform an affirmative act that contributed to the suffering of the Vietnamese?" And I, and all the others who did not go to Canada, must answer...
...examination dreams, which often persist into old age. Suggests New York Psychoanalyst Dr. Charles Fisher: "In older people, they may have to do with the feeling of failing powers, helplessness or hopelessness." Other researchers believe that the dream implies the fear of failure to perform well in some specific current undertaking...
...takes on an added dimension when played on the computer, which causes the varied patterns to unfold much more rapidly. The computer can either place the counters at random or follow the operator's placement instructions. Readily programmed to obey Life's rules, it can then perform the necessary calculations in a flash and display the changing patterns on a cathode ray tube, providing a remarkable kaleidoscopic show. Sometimes the counters quickly settle into what Conway calls "still lifes" - stable, unchanging figures, including those known in the game's already rich jargon as "bee hives," 9, "snakes...