Word: performs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Occasionally a headman comes along who is adept at manipulating these conflicting forces. The trick is to utilize the threat of external power, which cannot really be mobilized by a humble village headman, to bring about his own ends within the longhouse. By failing to perform one of his trivial administrative functions, such as signing an application for a national registration card without which a man cannot get a job in a lumber camp, he can harass his opponents. Over matters of importance such as a land dispute, he may hold the entire house to ransom, if he is careful...
...will then perform the toughest job of all--drafting very sensitive, but major, legislation in a fashion that appeals to all factions of a conservative Faculty...
...they qualified as small businessmen, apply to the Small Business Administration for longterm loans to offset financial problems resulting from efforts to comply with the OSHA standards. Finally, the legislation established the National Institute of Occupational Safety (NIOSH) within the department of Health, Education, and Welfare, to perform the research necessary to develop adequate OSHA standards...
First, Congress and the President should give OSHA a clear mandate to perform its assigned task--and back up this political endorsement with increased financial support. Secondly, OSHA should undergo a thorough administrative housecleaning. Third, NIOSH funding should be increased so that safe exposure standards can be developed for potentially toxic substances used in industry...
...they were still so young--Franken is 24, Davis 23--that comedians constantly caution them "not to burn out." Franken, sitting in his comfortable chair, was not disturbed. His only worry, he said, was when he would get a vacation from his writing job, not to relax, but to perform stand-up comedy...